Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes

Quality is abundant. Time is the new scarcity.

We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.

When you have endless time, you take all day to go to the grocery store. But, if you have to be at work for 14 hours a day, you manage your time better. I know I do.

I think of all my time as existing in 15-minute blocks. Most people think in terms of 30-minute chunks, but I've found that when I free up more time, I waste it.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

I haven't had the time to find the time too long.

You only have so much time in a day.

There just aren't enough hours in the day; I've got a lot of things that I want to do, and those that I can do, I'm going to make sure that I do do!

Time waste differs from material waste in that there can be no salvage. The easiest of all wastes and the hardest to correct is the waste of time, because wasted time does not litter the floor like wasted material.

We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are either spent in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them.

I ain't got time to bleed.

The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.

Being successful doesn't make you manage your time well. Managing your time well makes you successful!

The real key is time management and being able to focus on what you need to, on using every available minute to accomplish something that needs to be done.

The thing is to try to do as much as you can in the time that you have.

I recommend to you to take care of the minutes; for hours will take care of themselves. I am very sure, that many people lose two or three hours every day, by not taking care of the minutes.

The time you waste now you'll wish you used well at the end.

The first indication that we are killing our dreams is lack of time.

If you are killing time, it's not murder. It's suicide.

There is always time to take more time.

Oh god, I wish. I really wish. If I'm time-poor, which I usually am, that's the first thing to go. And I know it shouldn't be, I know I should be really regular, but I like to get it done as quickly as possible.

Look at those two. Wasting time. You wouldn't catch me doing that.

It's really not so good to have time. Rush, scramble, desperation, this missed, that left behind, those others too big to fit into such a small space--that's the way life was meant to be. You're supposed to be too late for some things. Don't worry about it.

You should always waste time when you don't have any. Time is not the boss of you. Rule 408.

Musing on the phrase 'waste of time.' So much more complex than it appears. Many 'wastes of time' small talk, daydreaming are imperatives.