Randy Pausch Quotes

Most people have never thought through how they're going to allocate their time. You need to make a decision in advance.

You spend your time like you spend money. You can waste it or invest it.

We need a sense of the value of time - that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities.

With my responsibilities comes having to manage my time more efficiently.

You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.

I plan my life in 15-minute sections.

If you don't create structure, your time will get eaten up pretty quickly. And the alternative is harsher than you think, because the world will suck it up.

I think time management as a label encourages people to view each 24-hour period as a slot in which they should pack as much as possible.

The thing you have to understand is that there are only so many things you can do in a year. There are only so many days in a year. There is only so much time you can set aside for certain projects.

Quality is abundant. Time is the new scarcity.

Lists today are a way of trying to get through the day, because we are losing a sense of time.

No, my entire life is planned. It's called time management.

Time plays a role in almost every decision. And some decisions define your attitude about time.

Boundary setting is really a huge part of time management.

This is the key to time management - to see the value of every moment.

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.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Time management is really key for me.

We all deal with issues of time. The first thing you do in the morning is look at the clock to see what time it is.

You can have anything you want, but not everything. If it was really important to spend an afternoon at my daughter's school, I had to think, how was I going to organize my life to do that? How could I become more efficient? I always tried to put my priorities on the table, personal and professional, and work around them.

Argh... I could be better with my time. I like to be punctual, but I could be better.

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

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

You only have so much time in a day.

It's important to learn how to use your small bits of time. All those begin to count up. It's not the long amounts of time you have that are important. you should learn how to use your snatches of time when they are given to you.