Procrastination is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fled, and to the mercies of a moment leaves the vast concerns of an eternal scene.

When you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that in itself is a choice.

If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.

It is only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth – and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up – that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.

How soon ‘not now’ becomes ‘never.'

In a moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing to do, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.

A year from now you may wish you had started today.

If you don’t pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves.

Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.

You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.

Think of many things; do one.

To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favour of holding meetings.

Follow effective actions with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

How wonderful it is, that nobody needs to wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

Much of the stress that people feel doesn’t come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they started.

Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them.

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

It is not really work if you are having fun.

Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.

I don't like tight pants on guys.

The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.

The first two movies I directed failed, when I was 21 and 23, and that was the greatest thing that could have happened.

I have lots of fans, they are mostly under the age of 12, boys and girls.

I don't consider myself a musician. I'm an artist.

It was a rich and gorgeous sunset - an American sunset; and the ruddy glow of the sky was reflected from some extensive pools of water among the shadowy copses in the meadow below.

Every character needs an adversary - one who is both challenging and a contrast for the hero. The best adversaries reveal something about the character they're contrasting.

I tell everyone I interact with what I'm working on and let them bring me anecdotes that illustrate my themes.

There is a lot of speculation about what women are attracted to, and there are a lot of misconceptions.

Montreal is a very cosmopolitan, sophisticated, erudite, educated, glorious city today. But it wasn't quite that way when I was growing up there. There was a lot of anti-Semitism. And I had to deal with that in an area of the city that had very few Jews.

I always loved acting - though what I did in my teens was probably more eclat than elan. But I wasn't sure about doing it professionally.

There are half a billion people that listen to music online and the vast majority are doing so illegally. But if we bring those people over to the legal side and Spotify, what is going to happen is we are going to double the music industry and that will lead to more artists creating great new music.

Fate gives you the finger and you accept.

I consider the world, this Earth, to be like a school, and our life the classrooms.

I would have liked having children to some degree, but frankly I haven't got the time to take the kids to the goddamn ballgame.

When I first started looking at Twitter, I followed people like Steve Martin, who will just write the funniest non sequiturs now and then, which I thought was really fun. That's kind of the road I've taken. Every now and then, something comes into your mind and you put it out there. It's very innocuous. I think it's kind of fun.

I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.

I am the freest author in the world.

Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles.

I am definitively qualitative about work.

It takes such a commitment of passion and energy and time, and it's all so encompassing to direct that you've got to see the bullseye, and you know you can hit it - or at least get awfully close.

Follow your passion. Listen to your heart. Trust the process. Be grateful. Life is magic and your dreams matter.

'MacGruber' came to life mostly because we just liked saying 'MacGyver.' 'MacGyver' this. 'MacGyver' that. It's a great word.