Quotes About Scheduling

Delaying gratification is a process of scheduling the pain and pleasure of life in such a way as to enhance the pleasure by meeting and experiencing the pain first and getting it over with.

Mary Anne schedules our baby-sitting jobs.

Mary Anne checked the record book. "Claud," she said, "you're free that night. Want the job?" "Of course!" I replied.

Today was very full, but the problem isn't today. It's tomorrow. I'd be able to recover from today if it weren't for tomorrow. There should be extra days, buffer days, between real days.

Just remember to keep your eye out for ways to maximize your schedule freedom in the long term.

I have my whole life organized on an 11x17-inch tear-away weekly calendar.

While it can be therapeutic to put something off, procrastination or ignoring a problem isn't self-care; in fact, it's the opposite. Ignoring a problem just makes it more of a problem. Self-care involves scheduling things so that they don't reach problem status and includes being kind to your future self by not leaving her a mess to handle.

Wanhoop kost tijd en als hij iets niet heeft dan is het dat: tijd. Hij zou er ruimte voor moeten maken in zijn agenda. Misschien kan hij van de winter een weekend inruimen voor wanhoop.

1. ALLOCATE TIME WELL AHEAD OF TIME

Time can be dissected easily: an hour can be cut up in many ways. Fifteen minutes on this memo, a five-minute walk to another meeting, 30 minutes at that meeting and then 10 minutes debriefing. Oh, and maybe a quick phone call on the walk to that meeting. The busy are expert at dissection: that's how they make it all fit.

We work the full year round to make 10 or 12 episodes, and 'The Good Wife' makes, like, 26 in that time or something, which I can't believe. I don't know how they do it.

I think any filmmaker looks back and thinks, 'Boy, if we only had four hours more on that day when the sun was going down,' or, 'If we only spent more time and went back.'

You can't live in Orange County and train in Thousand Oaks. OK? you just can't. Not with the hours we put in. We have to be on time.

The soonest available appointment was three weeks out. That's almost unbelievable in a first-world country.

commitment three months from now that we'd never accept if it were next week—and then discover too late that we still don't have any time for it. Researchers term this the "Yes . . . Damn!" effect.

Why would someone want to start a museum in New York City when the Whitney and the Modern were already there? The answer was that the bigger museums were ill-equipped to respond quickly to radical or sudden changes in the arts, in part because exhibitions had to be scheduled years ahead of time to allow for securing loans, preparing catalogue, and, most important of all, obtaining funding.

Keep it simple: own as little as you can get away with, schedule everything, keep a notebook, don't let technology enslave you.

Is it normal to make a minute-to-minute schedule for the timing of thanksgiving? I'm asking for a friend.

The surest way to be late is to have plenty of time

Parkinson's First Law: Work expands to fill the time available.

The most fundamental constraint is limited time

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

I book myself tight. If I have any time off, I get antsy.

If you don't have time, you don't have priorities.