Mandy Patinkin Quotes

Any task can be completed in only one-third more time than is currently estimated.

Do not put off today's work for tomorrow.

The criterion of action is that todays work should not be deferred till the following day.

The military taught me the importance of getting something done in a timely manner and the importance of completing a mission on time. My lieutenant would say, 'If you don't, you die.' In many ways, life is the same. If you don't pay attention to a timeline, you lose out on the ability to accomplish the task at hand.

When a job is to be done there's no use putting it off.

One’s objective should be to get it right, get it quick, get it out and get it over. Your problem won’t improve with age.

Better laid than never.

Execution Excellence! (Show up on time! Leave last!)

Don't put off for tomorrow what you can do today because if you enjoy it today, you can do it again tomorrow.

The infinite we shall do right away. The finite may take a little longer.

I have a feeling the writers who find screenwriting difficult are usually just not lazy enough for the job. They don't know how to stop before the task is done. I've always had a knack for leaving things unfinished, which makes screenwriting easier for me than most.

I really like to work a lot. It makes time go by fast.

You don't look at it as the size of the role. Quantity is not the point. You can be as thorough in 30 seconds as you can in three hours.

If you wake up in the morning with a great sense of the things that have to be done in the day in order to get through to the next day, you lose the sense of the day as any kind of end in itself.

I have always lived my life by making lists: lists of people to call, lists of ideas, lists of companies to set up, lists of people who can make things happen. Each day I work through these lists, and that sequence of calls propels me forward.

Productivity is notoriously difficult to predict.

I come to the office each morning and stay for long hours doing what has to be done to the best of my ability. And when you've done the best you can, you can't do any better.

I love how you just make coffee and then somehow something gets done.

Whatever can be done another day can be done today.

He who puts off nothing till tomorrow has done a great deal.

First, do it. Second, do it well. Third, do it well and fast — that means you're a professional.

You've got to make haste while it's still light of day.

Shun delays, they breed remorse;Take thy time while time is lent thee;Creeping snails have weakest force,Fly their fault lest thou repent thee.Good is best when soonest wrought,Linger'd labours come to nought.

Why are you in such a rush?" Sophia asked, and her grandmother answered that it was a good idea to do things before you forgot that they had to be done.

When I am idle and shiftless, my affairs become confused; when I work, I get results ... not great results, but enough to encourage me.