Michael Pollan Quotes

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

Here's the deal: I believe - and I attempt to live my life this way - we all have more time than we think we do. We all waste so much time.

There's only X amount of time. You can do whatever you want with that time. It's your time.

Time cannot be recycled. When a moment has gone, it is really gone. Wise time management is really wise management of ourselves.

Time is not your enemy, forever is.

The secret to modern life is finding the measure in time management. I have two kids, career and I travel, and I don't think my life is any different than most couples. The most valuable commodity now for many people is time and how to parcel that out.

Most of the time I spend looking for the 25th hour in the day, the ninth day in the week, the 32nd day in the month and the 367th, eighth or 70th day in the year because I feel I have a very rich life.

Time can be an enemy or a friend.

Quality is abundant. Time is the new scarcity.

Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.

There is nothing of which we are apt to be so lavish as of time, and about which we ought to be more solicitous; since without it we can do nothing in this world.

Time is never more misspent than while we declaim against the want of it; all our actions are then tinctured with peevishness. The yoke of life is certainly the least oppressive when we carry it with good-humor; and in the shades of rural retirement, when we have once acquired a resolution to pass our hours with economy, sorrowful lamentations on the subject of time misspent and business neglected never torture the mind.

Remember, you can earn more money, but when time is spent it is gone forever.

Time is your most precious resource; make every minute count.

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

We each have a finite number of heartbeats, a finite amount of time. But we have enough heartbeats and enough time to do what is important.

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.

Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.

There's enough time in the day: If you go to bed at 10 and start your day at 6, there's a lot you can do in a day!

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.

One emphasis of my research has been on the question of how people spend their time. Time is the ultimate finite resource, or course, so the question of how people spend it would seem to be important.

You are right that I don't have a lot of spare time because I love to stay busy and keep my calendar full.

When I have spare time, I catch up on things I've had to postpone due to lack of time.

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

He needs both patience and speed.