How much time and energy are you spending trying to get approval, trying to be well-liked, trying to keep this friend impressed, trying to stay in this coworker's favor? Take the pressure off. I would much rather spend my time pleasing God than trying to please people.

Never confuse activity with productivity.

There is no night life in Spain. They stay up late but they get up late. That is not night life. That is delaying the day.

Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.

It's ten p.m. Do you know where your children are?

Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop to look around once in a while you could miss it.

The work will wait while you show the child the rainbow, but the rainbow won't wait while you do the work.

As soon as you sit down to a cup of hot coffee, your boss will ask you to do something which will last until the coffee is cold.

I admire the man who exclaimed, "I have lost a day!" because he had neglected to do any good in the course of it....

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time.

To be in this business and be a star, not just be on the card, to be a star puts a demand on your time.

A fixed deadline and a flexible scope are the crucial combination.