A Schedule Quotes

#1. I am always urging my students to honor their writing practice, to set up a schedule.

Tayari Jones

#2. You are the only boss you have. And I want you to be the most demanding boss that you can be. If you really want to make a success of this business, then you must put yourself on a schedule.

Mary Kay Ash

#3. Equipment will never help you write a lot; only making a schedule and sticking to it will make you a productive writer.

Paul J. Silvia

#4. My songs emerge from my life, or wherever they do, unbidden and unplanned and completely on a schedule of their own.

David Crosby

#5. The rest of the morning would consist of checking on a pothole in the parking lot of the village clinic and writing up a schedule for the community centre that might finally settle the ongoing feud between the local quilting group and the bridge club.
It was good to be queen.

Molly Harper

#6. I don't believe in making five-year plans. I don't want to say, "Yes, I want to have children in the next five years," because I don't know. I've always known that I'd like to be a mom, but I don't want to live by a schedule. If I [did], I wouldn't be living in the moment.

Charlize Theron

#7. A successful television series can chain you to a schedule of long hours and can put your personal life on hold. But after it is all over, if you survive, then anything is possible.

Kim Cattrall

#8. The reason why students do not progress even after receiving priceless teachings and spiritual techniques from the teacher is because they do not have a schedule; the sattvic energy is missing. Sattvic people establish the rhythm, they preserve the movement, and they preserve the organization.

Choa Kok Sui

#9. There's always something going on on movie sets. Even just from, you know, maybe you come in tired some days and you're not in your best mood. It's different when you're shooting movies because you're on a schedule and you gotta come with your A-game every day.

Ja Rule

#10. Programming is a Dark Art, and it always will be. The programmer is fighting against the two most destructive forces in the universe: entropy and human stupidity. These are not things you can overcome with a "methodology" or on a schedule.

Damian Conway

#11. When I go on location, we have a schedule. And when you have a schedule, you know when you're not working, so I train very well on location. But I also train three or four times a week at home, but today I train differently than before.

Jean-Claude Van Damme

#12. A schedule broken at will becomes a mere procession of vagaries.

Rex Stout

#13. ...he had impressed her as a man delightfully open to suggestion, with an imagination large enough to find time, even in the depths of despair, for the important things in life, those accidents without which our existence was little more than a schedule of dry routines.

Matthew Thomas

#14. So I'm into men now, even though they can be frightening. I want a schedule-keeping, waking-up-early, wallet-carrying, non-Velcro-shoe-wearing man.

Mindy Kaling

#15. If I had nothing to do and I wanted to sit in a dark room and relax, I could at times. But to be busy is very nice. To have things to do and have a schedule.

Chael Sonnen

#16. Life is long. Just because you don't get your chance right when you want or expect it doesn't mean it won't come. Fate doesn't punch a time clock or consult a schedule.

Sarah Dessen

#17. The great enemy of achievement is a schedule already full.

Robert Breault

#18. When I'm writing a novel or doing other serious writing work, I do it on a schedule that dictates writing either 2,000 words a day or writing until noon. After I hit whichever mark comes first, then I can give my attention to everything else I have to do.

John Scalzi

#19. In the evening
Everything has a schedule, if you can find out what it is.

John Ashbery

#20. Artwork is not like a commercial business; there is no such thing as a schedule for art. You can't hurry art.

Michael Heizer

#21. It's a wonderful way to have a role on a series - you're not tied down totally and completely to a schedule.

Lee Meriwether

#22. The music, for me, doesn't come on a schedule. I don't know when it's going to come, and when it does, I want it out.

Prince

#23. The point of a cruise ship is the cruise itself. But an ocean liner's job is to transport people on a schedule. The

Douglas Preston

#24. I write a lot in my head. The revision goes on internally. It's not spontaneous and it doesn't have a schedule.

Jamaica Kincaid

#25. I think straight couples have a schedule: You're together for two years and then there's the 'where is this going?' question, which wouldn't necessarily be good for everyone, but I think it's pretty healthy for relationships, for there to be a presumption that there is a decision to be made.

Nick Denton

#26. A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

Ann Dillard

#27. I don't really have a schedule of when I want to show my children my movies.

Steven Spielberg

#28. I've been playing baseball since I was 5 or 6 years old. I've been on a schedule, pretty much, since I was in eighth, ninth grade. I look forward to not doing that.

Derek Jeter

#29. The next time you are worrying about something, try to remember that you aren't always in control. Instead, do practical things like make a budget or create a schedule. Be proactive and let go of the stress. After all, it won't change a thing.

Demi Lovato

#30. Writing is a funny thing. It's not like you're working on a schedule. It comes in fits and starts.

Daphne Guinness

#31. Once we had become locked in on a schedule, he (Coach Denny Green) often created a disruption (artificial adversity) to that schedule just to see how guys would respond.

Tony Dungy

#32. A schedule so tight that it would only work if I didn't sleep on Monday nights.

Alan Jay Lerner

#33. Any actor will tell you there's more of a schedule to doing a television show. That's why you'll notice a lot of big movie actors are doing television, and they'll tell you, it's because of the schedule.

Jason Marsden

#34. Someone once asked Somerset Maughham if he wrote on a schedule or only when struck by inspiration. "I write only when inspiration strikes," he replied. "Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o'clock sharp.

Steven Pressfield

#35. I know if I missed a day and nothing happened, then it would be much easier to miss another day. Pretty soon I wouldn't have much of a schedule, and then I'd have less motivation. It's a downward spiral that I want to avoid, so I keep the schedule sacred.

Chris Guillebeau

#36. There couldn't be a resolution, because life doesn't end on a schedule. It ends in the middle, every time.

E.J. Copperman

#37. I worked more intensively hour after hour when I was starting out [writing]. More laboriously. I'd say quantity is important as well as quality, and if you're not producing enough, make a schedule and stick to it.

Lydia Davis

#38. I don't have a schedule, but I can write for hours non-stop. If I'm drafting a book, I try and do a chapter a day. I dislike first drafts. Revision is a lot more fun, but it takes years.

Sefi Atta

#39. He is very careful and loving, and hardly lets me stir without special direction.
I have a schedule prescription for each hour in the day; he takes all care from me, and so I feel basely ungrateful not to value it more.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#40. I like having a schedule. I tend to be the type of person that thrives on something being regular.

Zooey Deschanel

#41. For a few ticks of the clock I am here, uncomprehending, attempting to make some record or memorial of this eternal passage, like a traveler in a strange country through which he is being hurried on a schedule not of his making and for a purpose he does not understand.

Louis J. Halle

#42. Listen, a cable series is a beautiful thing because there's such amazing writing happening on television, and it's a schedule that allows you to do a play or two. There's a reason everybody wants that job!

Lily Rabe

#43. This is a profession for me, but I started off as a self-publisher working on my own schedule and my own stuff before moving on to graphic novels with First Second Books, where there was definitely a schedule, but it was very different from monthly comics.

Gene Luen Yang

#44. There is also a schedule to fashion - the deadline is always set. So maybe the fashion business is a good business for me in that way because I'm basically lazy, man.

Yohji Yamamoto

#45. The close relationships we form between researchers and product groups have already shown we can move the great ideas as they come along, without a schedule, into the products.

Bill Gates

#46. TV is starting to become such a collective experience again. People are watching it on their own time, rather than being on a schedule. Netflix offers the easy opportunity to watch as much as you can.

Landon Liboiron

#47. My hobbies include maintaining my physical and mental health. It's a full-time job. Yoga definitely helps for both of them. I'm a big fan of relaxing and not having a schedule. That's my best way to keep from going crazy.

Olivia Thirlby

#48. I don't envy "busy." Busy means having a schedule, not living life. What I really covet is leisure and peace of mind. Those who have both, have it all.

Donna Lynn Hope

#49. A schedule is a mock-up of reason and order - willed, faked, and so brought into being.

Annie Dillard

#50. The things that have really gotten confusing to me is how you balance the desires of your publishers to produce things on a schedule, and people are always sort of giving you ideas on what you should follow up with or how you should proceed next and things like that.

Paolo Bacigalupi

#51. Love doesn't follow a schedule - it just shows up, usually when you least want it to.

Ivy Adams

#52. You have a schedule that you really have to stick to with TV and make sure that you are producing enough film for the network to edit through and air quickly.

Amber Stevens

#53. If I don't have a schedule in front of me, I do enjoy sleeping. It's important for your body!

Miles Teller

#54. I want a schedule-keeping, waking-up-early, wallet-carrying, picture-hanging man. I don't care if he takes prescription drugs for cholesterol or hair loss.

Mindy Kaling

#55. My routine is really based around my kids, and I try not to hold myself to a schedule, because it is always changing. What has been the most influential thing to help me keep my center is to set priorities and stick to them.

Trista Sutter

#56. You're fortunate I've already beaten someone else to death today, gunslinger. I have a schedule to keep.

John Jackson Miller

#57. The costs savings was a big win, but now we also have a schedule of events and are clearly aware of when our contracts begin and end ... we are much more strategic about how we source now.

Jason Kennedy

#58. I've never seen a schedule where you just go in two hours almost every day of the week and then all day on one day. Then you shoot it at night with an audience and you're out of there.

Lee Majors

#59. Didn't she know?
"Yes" to dinner today.
"Yes" to marriage tomorrow.
Dammit, he had a schedule to keep.
A schedule that involved getting her sweet ass into bed as fast as humanly possible.

Shelly Laurenston

#60. Study the scriptures; pray morning and night; keep a near, well-groomed appearance; follow a schedule; set and achieve goals; be honest in all your dealings; keep commandments; and always live the standards revealed by prophets.

Robert D. Hales

#61. every weekday morning at that exact time, barring holidays, major illnesses, or snow over her boot tops. As far as anybody knew, she didn't actually have a schedule written out, but were her day divided out on paper, that's what it would say. Courthouse steps 8:59 a.m. Out of bed at 7:30, bran

A.H. Gabhart

#62. There is no schedule in the film industry. It's not like you have a 9 to 5 job every day.

Jodelle Ferland

#63. The interesting thing about staring down a gun barrel is how small the hole is where the bullet comes out, yet what a big difference it would make in your social schedule.

P. J. O'Rourke

#64. I'm very rigid about my schedule. I sit down at 8 A.M., and the Internet blocker goes on. My standard time is 120 minutes. I'm a compulsive writer, so it reminds me to stop writing ... If I write more than that, I turn into an ogre for my kids.

Claire Cameron

#65. Down Time's quaint stream
Without an oar
We are enforced to sail
Our Port a secret
Our Perchance a Gale
What Skipper would
Incur the Risk
What Buccaneer would ride
Without a surety from the Wind
Or schedule of the Tide

Emily Dickinson

#66. Except for thinking up reasons I'm allowed to skip the gym, my schedule is almost totally empty. (Today's reason is because I have a cold. Yesterday's was the dogs seemed sad.

Jen Lancaster

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

Casey Wilson

#68. Children should observe a regular schedule for sleeping and waking up.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#69. So many people are insanely busy nowadays, and it's easy to say, 'Ah, I'll workout tomorrow.' But you have to set aside a time and stick to that schedule.

Derek Jeter

#70. I'm used to a very busy schedule. Right now it revolves around training and preparing for Nationals in January. I'm usually at the rink from 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. and then I attend public school for two hours, three times per week.

Sasha Cohen

#71. I don't think I'm ever going to have the kind of life or schedule that I can really have a steady way of doing things.

Jim Carrey

#72. My schedule, it always looks like it's really steady, but believe it or not, I tend to work a bunch and then take a year off.

Julianne Moore

#73. There can't be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.

Henry Kissinger

#74. To be a series regular for two seasons taught me so much about what it takes to be on a TV schedule and work those kind of hours and just work in front of a camera in general.

Megan Hilty

#75. I really love working. It makes me feel like an even better person when I work. I function much better if I have a really rigid schedule. When I'm left to my own devices, I can just be all over the place.

Melanie Griffith

#76. I do a little bit of hand-holding on the big cases. You know, like health care, I'll call over and say, "Don't worry. We've got it under control. We have the best people working on it. We're on schedule. Stay calm." So, those kinds of things.

Donald Verrilli Jr.

#77. I've got a hectic schedule, but I wouldn't have my life any other way.

Dominic Monaghan

#78. Although my life is far from perfect, the irony is that in a divorced parent's custody schedule - with days on and days off - instead of like it was before, when I felt ragged and still oddly guilty all the time, now I feel guilty but not ragged.

Sandra Tsing Loh

#79. Apparently tired of waiting for clear direction from Congress, the people of Puerto Rico have used the tools provided by their own local constitution to schedule a vote for Dec. 13 on the status of the island.

Dick Thornburgh

#80. For the record, I would like to point out that it is NOT being obsessive to memorize a boy's schedule so that you can accidentally bump into him. It is called being efficient.

Jess Rothenberg

#81. I learned three important things in college-to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes. What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.

Agnes De Mille

#82. Everyday life is a stimulating mixture of order and haphazardry. The sun rises and sets on schedule but the wind bloweth where it listeth.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#83. Never reward writing with not writing. Rewarding writing by abandoning your schedule is like rewarding yourself for quitting smoking by having a cigarette.

Paul J. Silvia

#84. We've been running a little behind schedule. But only by about 15 years or so.

Matt Groening

#85. As you schedule individual tasks, give yourself a cushion. Mark the due date a few days ahead of the actual deadline so you have time to deal with changes or last-minute emergencies.

Harvey MacKay

#86. Being the first Olympic medallist of my country means that I have some obligations and it was a very tough job for me to resume a proper training schedule due to the (new) status I have in my country.

Benjamin Boukpeti

#87. America's growth historically has been fueled mostly by investment, education, productivity, innovation and immigration. The one thing that doesn't seem to have anything to do with America's growth rate is a brutal work schedule.

Fareed Zakaria

#88. For us as entertainers traveling, the schedule gets really crazy - flying all the time, being on a bus tour, changing hotels every day. And it's challenging.

Sheila E.

#89. God has a time for everything, a perfect schedule. He is never too soon, never too late. The when of His will is as important as the what and the how.

Richard Halverson

#90. The downside to series television is that the schedule is ferocious. It constantly feels like you have a midterm due that you haven't started yet.

Aaron Sorkin

#91. Parker: When can you start? Rainie: I can start tomorrow if you'd like. My schedule is pretty much open. All I have to keep me at home is Thomas. Parker: Ah. It figures that there'd be a man in the picture. You're too lovely to be unattached. Rainie: Thomas is a cat.

Catherine Anderson

#92. There's nothing regular about my life at all, really. I don't keep a regular schedule and every day is different. It's all rather chaotic.

Wallace Shawn

#93. The reason why I have lost weight is that I looked at the international schedule and thought that I wanted to play for another two years. It is a very hectic schedule and if I want to get through that then I have to be in the best shape that I can.

Shane Warne

#94. The idea that I'm a homosexual thrill killer, that I stroll down the streets and stalk young boys and slaughter them ... Hell, if you could see my schedule, my work schedule, you knew damn well that I was never out there.

John Wayne Gacy

#95. I have never in my life found myself in a situation where I've stopped work and said, 'Thank God it's Friday.' But weekends are special even if your schedule is all over the place. Something tells you the weekend has arrived and you can indulge yourself a bit.

Helen Mirren

#96. I haven't any formal schedule, but I love to write in the morning, before breakfast. Sometimes the writing goes so smoothly that I don't take a break for many hours - and consequently have breakfast at two or three in the afternoon on good days.

Joyce Carol Oates

#97. your need to consume calories on a regular schedule will diminish substantially when blood glucose levels are moderated and you start burning fat and ketones more efficiently through low-insulin

Mark Sisson

#98. I like to have a hectic schedule.

Ryan Kwanten

#99. Big companies are reliant on institutional investors on a punishing schedule which leads to ruthless behaviour. This form of capitalism with this structure and incentives will never deliver sustainability.

Tim Jackson

#100. And I remember as a second or third grader having some autonomy to go to the store if I felt like it, walk home, take my time, kick the can. We were on our own schedule after school, so that was cool.

Stone Gossard