Ian Caldwell Quotes

I have too many friends who tell me that they spend the first hour of every morning going through their e-mail messages. I'd like to use my time more carefully.

I try to compartmentalize as much as possible, and I have the most amazing team in the world. They really set up my time in a way that is completely efficient all the time.

We must never be too busy to take time to sharpen the saw.

Don't equate activity with efficiency. You are paying your key people to see the big picture. Don't let them get bogged down in a lot of meaningless meetings and paper shuffling. Announce a Friday afternoon off once in a while. Cancel a Monday morning meeting or two. Tell the cast of characters you'd like them to spend the amount of time normally spent preparing for attending the meeting at their desks, simply thinking about an original idea.

Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.

My great fear is not that I'll run out of ideas. It's that I'll run out of time.

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

For me, time is everything, because from the time you wake up you have to have your heart and soul in this. You have to work through the day, you have to go to the gym, you have to eat, and yet you have to work as fast as possible to get home and get rest before the next day begins again.

you have to do more than just kill time or time will quickly kill you.

If you don't have time, the truth is, you don't have priorities. Think harder; don't work harder.

I'm composing more than before. I'm cutting down on conducting.

I don't work for a long time on anything. I don't have too much time in life.

Very few people know how to work. Inspiration, everybody has inspiration. That's just hot air.

A couple of things have helped. One is that I dont travel any, that takes a lot of time from peoples schedules, if they travel, so I dont travel.

Nothing in business is so valuable as time.

He who attempts to do all will waste his life in doing little.

If I had to describe my work in one word, that word would be time.

I have a great drive to make things and sometimes I forget to slow down a little.

I do the same thing everyday. I go to work and paint. I try to turn out as many pictures as I can.

It is possible to be busy-very busy-without being very effective.

I seem to have spent a little less time painting than I might've done.

Time doesn’t obey our commands. You cannot make it holy just because it is disappearing.

Were you already here?" he asked. "Yeah." "Didn't you just bring her home from work two hours ago?" "Yeah." Tripp chuckled and shook his head. "Did you even leave?" "No.

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

Nothing easier than to confuse busyness with goodness.