Time Management Quotes
Published on Nov 18, 2015
This presentation is a small collection of quotes related to time-management which I have come across in various articles over the years.
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"What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important."
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower,
Former U.S. President
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"When the word priority came into the English language in the 1400s, it was singular [meaning] the prior or very first thing...It wasn't until the 1900s that we...started using the word priorities. But what exactly does the word mean? Can there be multiple very first things?"
-- Greg McKeown,
New York Times Best Selling Author and LinkedIn Influencer
This excerpt is from Greg McKeown's LinkedIn post "How to Simplify Your Life in 5 Minutes a Day" dated April 22, 2014 (https://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140422070254-8353952-how-to-s...).
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"[P]rocrastination is a thief. What does it steal? Time. Productivity. Peace."
-- Ron Haynes, Founder and Editor of The Wisdom Journal
This quote is from Ron Haynes article "Things I Didn't Learn in College: Part 5 - How I Manage Multiple Priorities" (http://www.thewisdomjournal.com/Blog/multiple-priorities/).
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"For me, I can only be 'white hot intense' on one thing at a time. It's called focus."
-- Ron Haynes, Founder and Editor of The Wisdom Journal
Another quote from Ron Haynes article "Things I Didn't Learn in College: Part 5 - How I Manage Multiple Priorities" (http://www.thewisdomjournal.com/Blog/multiple-priorities/).
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"The thing people want most from you is your focus and attention. You destroy that when you think that you’re multitasking because you’re not accomplishing either."
-- Wendy Clark,
SVP of Global Sparkling Brand Center at Coca-Cola
This quote can be found in Jacky Carter's LinkedIn post "The Genius Way Coca-Cola Employees Manage Their Email - Plus More Tips" dated October 7, 2014 (https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/article/20141007162311-30084557-the-new-way-...).
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"[W]hen I get up, early in the morning — when it is really necessary, you have to reduce your sleeping time, because I have only 24 hours -- each day I try to think, what should I do for whole world, particularly for developing world people, who would be looking to the United Nations?"
-- Ban Ki-moon,
Secretary-General of the United Nations
Daniel Roth, executive editor at LinkedIn, included this quote among the highlights of his interview with Ban Ki-moon: "What Drives the Man with the World's 'Most Impossible Job'?" dated July 1, 2014 (https://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140701122330-29092-what-drive...).
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