Fareed Zakaria Quotes

The biggest challenge is to stay focused. It's to have the discipline when there are so many competing things.

The challenge is not to manage time, but to manage ourselves.

I hate wasting time.

I knew I could control one thing, and that is my time and my hours and my effort and my efficiency.

When you find yourself on the Internet when you're supposed to be writing, you've already lost. It's even beyond procrastination when you end up on the Internet.

The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything.

It takes discipline not to let social media steal your time.

Everything in life turns out to be a distraction from the real thing you want to do. There are a million distractions and when I was a kid I was very disciplined. I knew that the other kids weren't. I was the one able to do the thing, not because I had more talent, maybe less, but because they simply weren't applying themselves.

It's very easy to fool yourself that you're working, you know, when you're really not working very hard. I mean, I'm very lazy. So for me, I would always have an excuse, you know, to go - quit early, go to a museum, you know. So I do everything I can to make myself remember this is a job. I keep a schedule.

Don't be silly and don't waste your time.

I just have to be very, very organised.

I just think there are enough hours in the day. If you just focus and dedicate yourself and approach each task as it presents itself, you can accomplish a lot.

I procrastinate so much and I get distracted by anything.

I always had a sense of discipline in me. However, there was a time when I couldn't divide my time properly between off-field things and on-field assignments. The focus would be missing at times, and that would affect my preparation for matches. I managed to change that.

I have to be motivated, and I'm sure time will avail itself.

Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.

We cannot waste time. We can only waste ourselves.

If you need five minutes every hour to look at tweets or to just surf the Internet, you need to schedule that into your schedule, allow yourself to do that. Because when people start procrastinating, what they've done is, they've tried to ignore that urge. They try to deny themselves time on Facebook or time surfing the web.

Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.

As a young boy, I read 'Cheaper by the Dozen' and immediately became neurotic about my use of time. It taxed me severely, but only for the next 50 years. But I think it also allowed me to discipline myself to sit in the chair and be a writer, where one of the most needed qualities is patience.

We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

Time management is the mantra of my life.

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.

Here in Seattle, I'm the most productive I've ever been. I don't allow myself personal distractions. I'm extremely disciplined here.

I'm the type of person, I cannot waste time.