"Attention is your most precious asset, and deciding how to invest it is one of the most important decisions you can make. The good news is you can make that decision now, in this moment, and in each moment of your life."

- Robert Waldinger, The Good Life

"Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things. Systems ensure you achieve both."

- Peter Drucker

"Because in reality your time is finite, doing anything requires sacrifice—the sacrifice of all the other things you could have been doing with that stretch of time. If you never stop to ask yourself if the sacrifice is worth it, your days will automatically begin to fill not just with more things, but with more trivial or tedious things."

- Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks

"Don’t let other people plan your day. Imagine your ideal day — then make it a reality. Plan what you want to accomplish each day, and don’t let anyone or anything interrupt your plans. Just follow your plan."

- Pat Hiban, 7 Steps to 7 Figures

"A small productivity gain, compounded over 50 years, is worth a lot. So it’s worth figuring out how to optimize productivity. If you get 10% more done and 1% better every day compared to someone else, the compounded difference is massive."

- Sam Altman

"A well-ordered day provides an opportunity to accomplish more and reduces stress by eliminating decision fatigue."

— Charles Duhigg, Smarter Faster Better

"Because how we live our hours is how we live our lives, being happy with our lives means being happy with our hours."

— Laura Vanderkam, Off the Clock

"Which of us is not saying to himself—which of us has not been saying to himself all his life: ‘I shall alter that when I have a little more time’? We never shall have any more time. We have, and we have always had, all the time there is."

- Arnold Bennett, How to Live on 24 Hours a Day

"You have to live on this twenty-four hours of daily time. Out of it you have to spin health, pleasure, money, content, respect, and the evolution of your immortal soul. Its right use, its most effective use, is a matter of the highest urgency and of the most thrilling actuality. All depends on that."

- Arnold Bennett, How to Live on 24 Hours a Day

“Your life, including how you spend your time, is a by-product of the choices you’ve made.”

- Marie Forleo, Everything is Figureoutable

“The best to-do list sticks to a handful of very specific, actionable, and non-conflicting items. Schedule your number one priority first. Attack it immediately in the morning. Start there and you will win your morning hours and you will own your day.”

- Craig Ballantyne, The Perfect Day Formula

"Setting a regular work schedule not only improves productivity but also allows for dedicated personal time, which is essential for mental well-being."

- Shawn Achor, The Happiness Advantage

“Productivity is achieved when you plan, organize, set priorities, and concentrate on the most valuable use of your time, all day long.”

- Brian Tracy, Master Your Time, Master Your Life

“It’s better to be urgent and efficient so that you can afford to relax and enjoy the fruits of your labors instead of stressing that you have not done enough to provide stability for yourself and your family.”

- Tim and Julie Harris, Harris Rules

“Goal achievement has to do with only two things: Managing where your attention goes, and managing where your effort goes. That’s it. Our job is to continuously reprioritize, reorganize, and optimize those two things.”

- Sharran Srivatsaa

"Focus is about saying no. No to distractions. No to interruptions."

- Steve Jobs

“Eliminate temptations and destroy distractions.”

- Craig Ballantyne

“Effectively delegating to others is perhaps the single most powerful high leverage activity there is. Transferring responsibility to other skilled and trained people enables you to give your energies to other high leverage activities. Delegation means growth, both for individuals and organizations.”

- Stephen R. Covey

“An example of your amazing, but possibly underutilized, ability to control your motivation, not to mention your efficiency, is how you feel right before a vacation. In the time prior to taking a vacation, you're super organized. You edit the things on your to-do list to only the most necessary. You're awesome at managing your time and getting things done. It's almost miraculous how efficient you become. What would happen if you treated each workday as if you had that plane to catch for your vacation?”

- Tim and Julie Harris, Harris Rules

“Focus is a matter of deciding what things you’re not going to do.”

- John Carmack