Quotes About Time

How can I possibly explain that what I do with my time and what I do for money are completely different things?

The New Rich (NR) are those who abandon the deferred-life plan and create luxury lifestyles in the present using the currency of the New Rich: time and mobility.

if you can't see your rocks on your calendar, they might as well not exist. This is doubly important for things like sleep and exercise. If you don't put those in first, no one will.

Out of more than 4,600 articles on Brain Pickings, what are Maria's starting recommendations? "The Shortness of Life: Seneca on Busyness and the Art of Living Wide Rather Than Living Long" "How to Find Your Purpose and Do What You Love" "9 Learnings from 9 Years of Brain Pickings" Anything about Alan Watts: "Alan Watts has changed my life. I've written about him quite a bit.

You are 99 years old, you are on your deathbed, and you have a chance to come back to right now: what would you do?

It's usually better to keep old resolutions than to make new ones.

lack of time is actually lack of priorities.

lack of time is actually lack of priorities. Take

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When I'm old, how much would I be willing to pay to travel back in time and relive the moment that I'm experiencing right now?

Cuanto más deprisa te mueves, más lento pasa el tiempo y más vives.

Life will go faster than you know. It will be tempting to live a life that impresses others.

A lot of professions assume that you're going to take eight to ten years just to achieve the minimum level of competence necessary to start to practice. That's been a good grounding force when doing projects, because a lot of things go wrong here and there, but if you just assume that anything worthwhile is going to take five to ten years, they don't feel as severe.

But not until I started PayPal did I fully realize that you don't have to wait to start something. So if you're planning to do something with your life, if you have a 10-year plan of how to get there, you should ask: Why can't you do this in 6 months?

How Much of Your Life Is Making Versus Managing? How Do You Feel About the Split?

Je?li chcemy mie? wi?cej czasu, musimy robi? mniej – to kluczowy warunek. Istniej? dwa sposoby osi?gni?cia tego stanu, które najlepiej zastosowa? równocze?nie: (1) przygotuj krótk? list? rzeczy do zrobienia; (2) przygotuj list? rzeczy, których nie nale?y robi?.

La vida es demasiado corta para tenerla ocupada.

great creative work isn't possible if you're trying to piece together 30 minutes here and 45 minutes there. Large, uninterrupted blocks of time—3 to 5 hours minimum—create the space needed to find and connect the dots. And one block per week isn't enough. There has to be enough slack in the system for multi-day, CPU-intensive synthesis.

If I am not for myself, who will be for me? But if I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when?" –Rabbi Hillel

Gold is getting old. The New Rich (NR) are those who abandon the deferred-life plan and create luxury lifestyles in the present using the currency of the New Rich: time and mobility.

What will matter to me in six months, a year, five years? What is essential, and what is optional, in my life priorities?

I wanted to go on offense. I wanted to have the time to focus, to learn the things I wanted to learn, to build what I wanted to build, and to really invest in relationships that I wanted to grow, rather than just doing a day of coffee after coffee after coffee.

crear un vehículo automatizado de generación de dinero sin que nos lleve tiempo. Eso es todo.

Use Parkinson's Law on a Macro and Micro Level. Use Parkinson's Law to accomplish more in less time. Shorten schedules and deadlines to necessitate focused action instead of deliberation and procrastination.