Quote of the Day -- Oliver Burkeman

A life spent chasing the mythical state of being able to do everything is less meaningful than a life spent focusing on a few things that count.

-- Oliver Burkeman

Quote of the Day -- William James

Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task. 

-- William James

Quote of the Day -- Samuel Butler

Do not hunt for subjects, let them choose you, not you them.  Only do that which insists on being done and runs right up against you, hitting you in the eye until you do it.

-- Samuel Butler

Quote of the Day -- Leo Tolstoy

There is only one time that is important— Now! It is the most important time because it is the only time when we have any power.

-- Leo Tolstoy

Quote of the Day -- Maya Angelou

We spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our families, cherishing our friends and living our lives.

-- Maya Angelou

Quote of the Day -- Doug Larson

For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work.

 -- Doug Larson

Quote of the Day -- May Sarton

As soon as I have a deadline, I work much better. Time unbounded is hard to handle.

-- May Sarton

Quote of the Day -- Daniel Kahneman

The easiest way to increase happiness is to control your use of time. Can you find more time to do the things you enjoy doing? 

– Daniel Kahneman

Quote of the Day -- Herman Wouk

Remember this, if you can–there is nothing, nothing more precious than time. You probably feel you have a measureless supply of it, but you haven’t. Wasted hours destroy your life just as surely at the beginning as at the end–only in the end it becomes more obvious. 

-- Herman Wouk

Quote of the Day -- Benjamin Franklin

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander Time; for that’s the Stuff Life is made of.

-- Benjamin Franklin

Quote of the Day -- Claire Messud

Rushing around can be a pointless diversion from actually living your life.

 -- Claire Messud

Quote of the Day -- Douglas Adams

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. 

-- Douglas Adams

Quote of the Day -- Samuel Johnson

Idleness is often covered by turbulence and hurry. He that neglects his known duty and real employment naturally endeavours to crowd his mind with something that may bar out the remembrance of his own folly, and does anything but what he ought to do with eager diligence, that he may keep himself in his own favour. 

-- Samuel Johnson

Quote of the Day -- Rumer Godden

I suppose the more you have to do, the more you learn to organise and concentrate—or else get fragmented into bits. I have learned to use my ‘ten minutes.’ I once thought it was not worth sitting down for a time as short as that; now I know differently and, if I have ten minutes, I use them, even if they bring only two lines, and it keeps the book alive. 

-- Rumer Godden

Quote of the Day -- Michael Altshuler

The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot.

-- Michael Altshuler

Quote of the Day -- Diana Trilling

We lived our lives as if life was forever. To live one’s life without a sense of time is to squander it. 

-- Diana Trilling

Quote of the Day -- Goethe

Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.

-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Quote of the Day -- William Blake

Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.

-- William Blake

Quote of the Day -- Ovid

Take rest; a field that has rested gives a beautiful crop.

-- Ovid

Quote of the Day -- Jean de la Bruyère

Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.

-- Jean de la Bruyère