Quotes About Scheduling

We only work four days a week, we only work three weeks out of the month, and we get four months off for the summer. So there's plenty of time for me to spend with the kids.

I'm not scheduling my entire life to death in order to be able do the work I've got to do. So at the moment I'm quite happy.

I don't care what TV show you work on, even a movie for that matter, it's all about time and money eventually.

Some are pre-taped interviews because maybe we can't get that person live or maybe we're not sure it's going to work out right so we tape it an hour in advance.

The fight against unfair scheduling is like the fight for a regulated work day - it's people fighting for reasonable conditions at work and to have a life, so you can have some leisure.

In 'Before and After,' I identify the sixteen strategies that we can use to make or break our habits. Some are quite familiar, such as 'Monitoring,' 'Scheduling,' and 'Convenience.' Some took me a lot of effort to identify, such as 'Thinking,' 'Identity,' and 'Clarity.'

The only thing that I stress out about is, how am I going to make sure that I balance out my time for motherhood?

I don't think that scheduling is uncreative. I think that structure is required for creativity.

My husband, Sal, and I put date nights on the calendar once a week. I know that doesn't sound romantic, but otherwise it won't get done.

A lot affects the outcome. It boils down to scheduling and the commitment of the network.

When people say " I just don't have enough time " they mean " I prioritized something else.

Tomorrow is always the busiest day of the week.

The trouble shows up when they need to organize output—deciding what to do when and then controlling their own behavior to get there.

You would think that, by sheer chance, there would come a time when you daughter's two dances would be close together, ideally near the beginning. But the dance studio makes sure this never happens, using the same computer scheduling program that the cable-TV company uses to make sure that the technician, for whom you have been waiting eleven hours, rings your doorbell only when you have just commenced pooping.

When time itself turned into a work factor, personal calendars became a key work tool.

Trying to keep a list on the calendar, which must then be reentered on another day if items don't get done, is demoralizing and a waste of time.

the calendar should be sacred territory. If you write something there, it must get done that day or not at all.

No software, seminar, cool notebook, smartphone, or even personal mission statement will give you more than twenty-four hours in a day

Three things go on your calendar: • time-specific actions; • day-specific actions; and • day-specific information.

What you've probably discovered, at least at some level, is that a calendar, though important, can really effectively manage only a small portion of what you need to organize. And daily to-do lists and simplified priority coding have proven inadequate to deal with the volume and variable nature of the average professional's workload.

Blake: 'Think in the morning; act in the noon; eat in the evening; sleep in the night.

The only way of catching a train I ever discovered is to miss the one before. G. K. Chesterton

The greatest mystery about a human being is not his reaction to sex or praise, but the manner in which he contrives to put in twenty-four hours a day. It is this which puzzles the longshoreman about the clerk, the Londoner about the bushman.

Schedule blocks of time in your calendar for your D-I-A Desires, and then fit in other to-dos around those blocks.