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Time Management Quotes by Stephen Covey
- The essence of the best thinking in the area of time management (practice planning) can be captured in a single phrase: Organize and execute around…
- Our struggle to put first things first can be characterized by the contrast between two powerful tools that direct us: the clock and the compass.…
- As you begin to think more in terms of importance, you begin to see time differently.
- Doing more things faster is no substitute for doing the right things.
- The struggle comes when we sense a gap between the clock and the compass - when what we do doesn't contribute to what is most…
- Most people say their main fault is a lack of discipline. On deeper thought, I believe this is not the case. The basic problem is…
- 'Efficient' scheduling and control of time are often counterproductive. The efficiency focus creates expectations that clash with the opportunities to develop rich relationships, to meet…
- Make time for planning: Wars are won in the general's tent.
- Time management is a misnomer, the challenge is to manage ourselves.
- The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.
- How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each…
- Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.
- If you organize your family life to spend even ten or fifteen minutes a morning reading something that connects you with these timeless principles, its…
More Time Management Quotes
- What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him… — Saint Augustine
- You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long. — Marcus Aurelius
- A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times. — Lord Acton
- There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the… — James A. Baldwin
- We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping… — Charles Baudelaire
- We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving… — Henry Ward Beecher
- Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus. — Alexander Graham Bell
- Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all. — John Berger
- Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent. — Ambrose Bierce
- Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go. — Josh Billings
- Time brings all things to pass. — Aeschylus
- But time growing old teaches all things. — Aeschylus