Neal A. Maxwell Quotes

The challenge is not to manage time, but to manage ourselves.

Do not spend the day in gathering flowers by the way side, lest night come upon you before you arrive at your journey's end, and then you will not reach it.

Time management is really personal management, life management. and management of yourself.

Time management requires self-discipline, self-mastery and self-control more than anything else.

People with good work habits have to-do lists that are reasonably prioritized, and they make themselves do what needs to be done. By contrast, people with poor work habits almost randomly react to the stuff that comes at them, or they can't bring themselves to do the things they need to do but don't like to do (or are unable to do).

Also, I'm always learning better and better how to prioritize and how to leave certain things for the next day.

Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.

There are people who literally cannot start a project until the deadline is four hours away, even if it's a big one. And those people have a serious problem. My recommendation is set up mini-deadlines. You might say, 'Okay, here's my deadline after three days for this and there's another deadline for that and then a third deadline.'

I am a great procrastinator. When the writing is going really well, the laundry piles up.

In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.

If I let myself go, nothing will get done.

When I come into the office, the first thing I do is I plan out what I want to accomplish that day. I write it down in my notebook and make sure I accomplish it before I leave that day.

I used to delay doing stuff that I just didn't want to deal with - things like putting the garden hose away properly or doing the dishes right after dinner. Now I have this little voice in my head that says, 'I know you don't want to do this, but just do it anyway.' In other words, there's far less stuff that I put off until tomorrow.

You can't let someone else's agenda hijack your day.

I'm known for having a very small to-do list and a big don't-do list.

You're actually making the rest of your day productive by spending 30 minutes reviewing your to-do's, prioritizing them, and ruthlessly removing things that shouldn't be there.

Self-discipline is a great time-saver; it is the ability to make yourself work on only those things that are most important to you.

I have reached the end of my time, and have hardly come to the beginning of my task.

Your life is too important to give it to distractions.

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

I fight against the gluttony of time with so many very amusing weapons with gestures and with three attitudes and with charming phrases; with tears and with tinsel, and with sugar-coated pills, and with platitudes slightly regilded. Yes, and I fight him also with little mirrors wherein gleam confusedly the corruptions of lust, and ruddy loyalty, and a bit of moonshine, and the pure diamond of the heart's desire, and the opal cloudings of human compromise: but, above all, I fight that ravening dotard with the strength of my own folly.

If you don't plan your time, someone else will help you waste it.

The easiest thing to do in the world is to neglect the important and give in to the urgent.

The man who can master his time can master nearly anything.

I recommend to you to take care of the minutes; for hours will take care of themselves. I am very sure, that many people lose two or three hours every day, by not taking care of the minutes.