Quotes About Scheduling

The time it will take to finish a programming project is twice as long as the time you've allotted for it.

Quit saying you don't have time. You have time for what you make time for in life.

To some degree, you control your life by controlling your time.

Most people use their calendars as a repository of "orders" that come in. Someone throws an order to a manager for his time, and it automatically shows up on his calendar. This is mindless passivity. To gain better control of his time, the manager should use his calendar as a "production" planning tool, taking a firm initiative to schedule work that is not time-critical between those "limiting steps" in the day.

To use your calendar as a production-planning tool, you must accept responsibility for two things: 1.  You should move toward the active use of your calendar, taking the initiative to fill the holes between the time-critical events with non-time-critical though necessary activities. 2.  You should say "no" at the outset to work beyond your capacity to handle.

strategic changes doesn't just start at the top. It starts with your calender

Even before I had an assistant, my calendar was color-coded and I had all these different e-mail rules for how to prioritize e-mails, so I made it a point years ago to figure all that stuff out because my life was a mess.

It's a crazy busy schedule, but I still have two hours a day for school because it's a priority.

I had very clever producers, who scheduled it brilliantly, but scheduling it was a nightmare.

I feel really productive. I'm very competitive with myself. I'm a scheduler. I'm always trying to keep everything together - I'm very OCD and very organized.

I act here and there but you have to commit so far out in advance when you're directing that you - I'm kind of booked six months out, so it's hard.

I'm extremely lucky in that my wife is the chief scheduler.

Horizontal meetings are team or project meetings, set up to coordinate individual activities. When I worked in a large tech company, those meetings just popped up in my calendar by the dozen.

At the end of the day, the one commonality that both Hindi cinema and Hollywood share is that they are full of talented and inspirational people. Outside of this, there are many differences, from the scheduling and rehearsal to promotion and directing techniques.

she's happy to have a chat, but we haven't fixed up a time yet. And I called Janice," said Strike, "mainly because

The effective delegator Does not feel insecure Has confidence in subordinates Uses schedules when planning Knows the value of delegating Ensures staff are trained

el tiempo se inventó para no tener que hacerlo todo a la vez».

Use your calendar as a shield to encircle the most important things of life.

The things that get scheduled are the things that get done.

if your priorities don't get scheduled into your planner, other people's priorities will get put into your planner.

things that get scheduled are the things that get done.

The lesson is that, though we expect our best thinking time to be when we are fresh, our elastic thinking capacity may be highest when we feel "burnt out." That's good to know when scheduling your tasks—you could be better at generating imaginative ideas if you do that kind of thinking after working on a chore that involves a period of tedious, focused effort that strains your powers of concentration.

You will always have time for what you make time for

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