Top 75 Quotes About To Do Lists
#1. I have everything in my house organized to an unnecessary T, and I love it! The only downside: I have no excuses for losing my to-do lists.
Ashley Rickards
#2. I go through about half a dozen spiral notebooks a year. They are my friends, just like the to-do lists. They keep me organized.
David R. Wommack
#3. I'm a big believer in to-do lists. I think of five things in the shower. I set goals and get my work done, but I have to plan for fun things, too. I'm always thinking about what will make my family happier. So I set up playdates and trips.
Heidi Klum
#4. I'm not big on to-do lists. Instead, I use e-mail and desktop folders and my online calendar. So when I walk up to my desk, I can focus on the e-mails I've flagged and check the folders that are monitoring particular projects and particular blogs.
Bill Gates
#5. It was on the to-do list, but you know to-do lists. They get longer and longer until you might as well just carve the last items on your tombstone. Do the dishes.
Catherynne M Valente
#6. There is power through prayer. For many Christians, prayer is nothing special, just something we're supposed to do - go to church, tithe, read the Bible, pray. But prayer should be so much more than an item on our "to do" lists.
Edward McKendree Bounds
#7. If you're like me, I get hooked into to-do lists, you know. I'll say I checked that off. Okay, I did that. And you have all these things you're doing.
Jeff Bridges
#8. See as much as you can see, I guess. Rachel Carson said most of us go through life "unseeing." I do that some days ... I think it's easier to see when you're a kid. We're not in a hurry to get anywhere and we don't have those long to-do lists you guys have.
Jim Lynch
#9. My father makes to-do lists, makes plans, makes business plans. This is how he starts, always with a blank sheet of graph paper.
Charles Yu
#10. To-Do lists help us break life into small steps.
Randy Pausch
#11. Creating "ABC" priority codes and daily "to-do" lists were key techniques developed to help people sort through their choices in some meaningful way.
David Allen
#12. Our minds are so cluttered with endless to-do lists that there's no room for us to experience the joy in being alive today.
Craig Groeschel
#13. Be open to surrendering all preconceived notions, well-thought-out plans and annual to-do lists.
Pooja Ruprell
#14. I'm not nearly as well organized as I would like. I am a creature of to-do lists and calendars - if something doesn't get onto my Google Calendar, I don't show up for it.
Ethan Zuckerman
#15. Ask any woman how she makes it through the day, and she may mention her calendar, her to-do lists, her babysitter. But if you push her on how she really makes it through her day, she will mention her girlfriends.
Anna Quindlen
#17. the inner
world is the one really worth exploring; everything else is just a series of to-do lists.
Michael Lennox
#18. I keep joking that I'm in Jason Reitman Film School, because I keep asking him questions every single day about directing and I have a list of things that he's told me to do and not do and I definitely couldn't learn from a better person.
Diablo Cody
#19. Without making a fetish of goal setting, and without letting "lists" of tasks we desire to do dominate us, some recording of goals is wise not only for the self-reminder these constitute, but also for the satisfaction of crossing things off.
Neal A. Maxwell
#20. Now and then it's good to list all the things you regularly do for which there was once a good reason.
Robert Breault
#21. One thing I've tried to never do is make wish lists. I try to have a very steppingstone mentality about this whole thing, where as soon as you make one step you visualize the next step, not five steps ahead.
Taylor Swift
#22. I do a lot of to-dos and a lot of lists. I realized I had to make room for joy. So I added "to feel" items on my to-do list. That's something you can easily do.
Bonnie St. John
#23. Success is never getting to the bottom of your to-do list.
Marissa Mayer
#24. Im a B-list celebrity trying to give it an honest look. They see me do actual work ... I try to be the viewer with a microphone.
Mike Rowe
#25. Remember the to-do list but don't forget the to-be list.
Richard Branson
#26. [Cats] are blissfully unaware that they have only a finite time in which to finish their 'to do' list.
Jon Edgell
#27. Figure out what past efforts amounted to nothing and label them your "not to do" list. Post the list where you'll see it.
Barbara Corcoran
#28. If someone gives me a to-do list, I say 'thank you, this is nice.' One needs things to throw in the wastebasket.
Karl Lagerfeld
#29. What if, along with our 'to do' list, we had a 'to be' list too?
Ken Johnston
#30. The key to enjoying the moment is to always carry a list of Things I Gotta Do That Can Wait.
Robert Breault
#31. If I wished to shake this tree with my hands, I should not be able to do so.
But the wind, which we do not see, troubles and bends it as it lists. We are worst bent and troubled by invisible hands.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#32. If you ever do decide to write anything else, even if you don't want to publish it, I'd love to read it. Frankly, I'd read your grocery lists.
John Green
#33. Lean is a way of thinking- not a list of things to do
Shigeo Shingo
#34. You do not know, and the readers cannot tell you, what they might like until they have it. It is one of those things that particularly if you want to be the next wave, well the next wave is not already on the bestseller lists. The next wave is in somebody's head.
Stephanie Laurens
#35. Most of what we do to get people ready to act in situations of encounter consists of drilling these lists into them sufficiently deeply so that they will be evoked quickly at the time of the decision.
Herbert Simon
#36. Prayer is not just something on our to-do list; it's the breath of our soul.
Kimberly Hahn
#37. List 20 things you are going to do in the next 30 days to fast-start your career. Then take action on at least one of them.
Brian Tracy
#38. In the spirit of Ethan's neurosis, we made a drywall list of keyboard buttons we would like to see: PLEASE, THANK YOU, FUCK OFF, DIE, OOPS ... MY MISTAKE, DO SOMETHING COOL AND SURPRISE ME .
Douglas Coupland
#39. The Bill of Rights isn't about us, it's about them . It isn't a list of things we're permitted to do, it's a list of things they aren't allowed even to consider.
L. Neil Smith
#40. Establish a closing ritual. Know when to stop working. Try to end each work day the same way, too. Straighten up your desk. Back up your computer. Make a list of what you need to do tomorrow.
Daniel Kahneman
#41. I do what I love and what I always dreamed of doing for a living. I write love stories, and I have always had a publisher willing to publish them. I have a sizable and loyal audience. I have made best-seller lists and won awards. What more could anyone ask for?
Mary Balogh
#42. Do one thing at a time. Start the day with a list of things you have to do, and do the most important things first.
Brian Tracy
#43. It won't work
I look before I leap
I love margins and discipline
I make lists in my sleep
Baby what's my sin?
Never quit-I follow through
I hate mess-but I love you
What to do with my impromptu baby
Jonathan Larson
#44. I made a list of things I wanted to do with my life, but it ended up mostly being a list of books I wanted to write
Ellie Rose McKee
#45. I do listen to a lot of music. Actually, I very often ask directors if they can offer up a play list. They very often have one anyway that they're listening to.
Dan Stevens
#46. I don't know whether it's normal or not, but sex has always been something that I take seriously. I would put it higher than tennis on my list of constructive things to do.
Art Buchwald
#47. I don't see anyone for the first hour and a half that I'm awake. I don't like to talk, and I don't like to hear any sounds. People know not to bother me! I use that time to read, and make lists and notes of things I have to do later in the day.
Robert Wilson
#48. Compile your to-do list for tomorrow no later than this evening.
Tim Ferriss
#49. When I'm supposed to be writing I clean my apartment, take my clothes to the laundry, get organized, make lists, do the dishes. I would never do a dish unless I had to write.
Fran Lebowitz
#50. Web-site creation isn't something you learn once and then check off on your to do list.
Jeffrey Veen
#51. Now I have a third must-do on my list of things to do with cancer, and it's this: follow your gut, ask questions, don't be complacent.
Cynthia Nixon
#53. He shook his head. The next time I hear a women going on about how neurotic men are, I'm going to remember this. You tell me you like my body, and what do I say? I say, thank you. Then I tell you I like yours and what do I hear? A long lists of grievances.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
#54. For me the really cool parts of being an author don't have anything to do with getting onto a bestseller list.
Patrick Rothfuss
#55. There are often lists of the great living male movie stars. How often do you see the name of Nicolas Cage? He should always be up there. He's daring and fearless in his choice of roles, and unafraid to crawl out on a limb, saw it off and remain suspended in air.
Roger Ebert
#56. She thought she was brave, but she did not have that kind of courage. To face the men who controlled the torturers, the lists, the surveillance, and say: I am going to do the very thing you say I must not do.
And yet they were right.How were things to get better if no one fought?
Geoff Ryman
#57. I used to prefer cash but I'm more and more drawn to cards because with certain cards you get the full lists which you can then pass on to your accountant so you don't have to do the whole receipt, receipt, receipt thing as it's all itemised.
Lemar
#58. I think if you socialize, dine with, spend time with known terrorists that are on the list of those who want to do harm to America, you put yourself in peril. I don't dine, socialize or spend time with people who are on the terrorist lists.
Harold Ford Jr.
#59. I'm a slave to this leaf in a diary that lists what I must do, what I must say, every half hour.
Golda Meir
#60. It's important to run not on the fast track, but on your track. Pretend that you have only six months to live, and make three lists: the things you have to do, want to do, and neither have to do nor want to do. Then, for the rest of your life, forget everything on the third list.
Mike Davies
#61. I keep lists of names of people that I have met, a list of things to do day by day as well as a log of how my time is consumed throughout the day. It's a very important part of my personal discipline.
Bob Graham
#62. Complaining will not change things in your life; only action will. Make a list of all you need to do to change what doesn't work in your life and, little by little, begin making those changes.
Susan Jeffers
#64. How come pleasure never makes it on to ... a dutiful list of do's and don'ts? Doesn't joy also get soft and flabby if you neglect to exercise it?
Ellen Goodman
#65. One can always come up with funny lists and jokes. You know what? I take it back. Not everyone can always come up with funny lists and some jokes. I'm very lucky to have a gift where I can do that pretty ably.
John Hodgman
#66. My books are always tactical, bullet lists, this is what you need to do because I'm trying to appeal to people who are trying to change the world and they need checklists.
Guy Kawasaki
#67. She'd learned now that the only way to write a list was to finish with something you actually wanted to do.
Harriet Evans
#68. The trick to getting things done is to list things to do in doable order.
Robert Breault
#69. Start a 'Stop Doing' list. I'll leave it as an existential dilemma on whether to put that task on your To Do list
James C. Collins
#70. I can make another list because the choice is mine. A list of what to do. So I won't be listless ever again.
Johnny Rich
#71. Make a list of competitors who will be disrupted by you. You do have competitors, right? You are better, right? If not, why are you going to Disrupt? Post a blog post about them and what makes you different.
Robert Scoble
#72. I won't make a bucket list because I'm so afraid that I'll die and then people will find my bucket list and be, like, 'Oh, she didn't get to do that.'
Emma Stone
#73. While sex heads a great number of lists, we all have other things we like to do in between.
Roger Zelazny
#74. men tend to do the discrete tasks that are more easily crossed off lists, such as mowing lawns or fixing things round the house.
Anonymous
#75. I laugh when I end up on the worst-dressed lists. I'm not trying to be fashionable. I know I'm kind of a cartoon character. Do people honestly think I'm wearing a kafkan in order to be fashionable?
Pamela Anderson
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