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Quotes from Time Management — Randy Pausch

1960–2008 United States

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10 quotes

Being successful doesn’t make you manage your time well. Managing your time well makes you successful!

Time Management (2007)

Turn money into time – especially important for people with kids.

Time Management (2007)

You don’t find time for important things, you make it.

Time Management (2007)

Make your office comfortable for you, and optionally comfortable for others.

Time Management (2007)

Clutter is death; it leads to thrashing. Keep desk clear: focus on one thing at a time.

Time Management (2007)

Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment.

Time Management (2007)

Eat and sleep and exercise. Above all else!

Time Management (2007)

Everything you do is an opportunity cost. Learn to say “No”

Time Management (2007)

Everyone has Good and Bad Times. Find your creative/thinking time. Defend it ruthlessly, spend it alone, maybe at home. Find your dead time. Schedule meetings, phone calls, and mundane stuff during it.

Time Management (2007)

Failing to plan is planning to fail. Plan Each Day, Each Week, Each Semester. You can always change your plan, but only once you have one!

Time Management (2007)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Randy Pausch (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.