William Hurt Quotes

Doing more things faster is no substitute for doing the right things.

Nothing easier than to confuse busyness with goodness.

Take more time, cover less ground.

Three hours of focused time on the projects that will really add value and uplift your career are so much better than 10 hours where you are constantly being interrupted and taken off your focus.

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

The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well.

You don't have to get things done all the time to be productive.

I have found that if I spend the first hour of my day at home, I get more done, and less people steal my time.

In devoting more time and attention to fewer commitments, we can have a bigger impact on the things that matter most.

We need to execute fewer things better.

Never confuse activity with productivity.

Stay focused and don't try to do too many things at once. Care about execution quality.

Efficiency, which is doing things right, is irrelevant until you work on the right things.

He that pursues two hares at once, does not catch one and lets the other go.

The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish good results while the strongest, by dispersing his effort over many chores, may fail to accomplish anything.

It's incredibly easy to get caught up in an activity trap, in the busy-ness of life, to work harder and harder at climbing the ladder of success only to discover it's leaning against the wrong wall. It is possible to be busy - very busy - without being very effective.

Don't confuse activity with productivity. Many people are simply busy being busy.

If there is any one secret of effectiveness, it is concentration. Effective executives do first things first and they do one thing at a time.

The more you have to do, the more you have only NOW to get it done. That's why busy people get the most done.

We may be very busy, we may be very 'efficient', but we will also be truly 'effective' only when we begin with the end in mind.

The secret of the truly successful ... is that they learned early in life how not to be busy.

The primary reason we do too much is that we have never taken the time to discover that portion of what we do that makes the biggest difference.

God does not judge us by the multitude of works we perform, but how well we do the work that is ours to do. The happiness of too many days is often destroyed by trying to accomplish too much in one day. We would do well to follow a common rule for our daily lives--DO LESS, AND DO IT BETTER.

So many people spend so much time on things that aren't important. It's the difference between success and failure.

When you make a to-do list, you should also make a to-not-do list. Warren Buffet was asked about the secret to success, and he said that it was saying no to almost everything. Some of those little tasks won't matter as long as you get the big tasks done.