
“The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.”
Source: The Seven Habits Of Highly Effective People (1989), p. 161
The Paris Review interview (2010)
Context: My passions drive me to the typewriter every day of my life, and they have driven me there since I was twelve. So I never have to worry about schedules. Some new thing is always exploding in me, and it schedules me, I don’t schedule it. It says: Get to the typewriter right now and finish this.
“The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.”
Source: The Seven Habits Of Highly Effective People (1989), p. 161
Harrington Emerson, as cited in: Horace Bookwalter Drury (1918) Scientific Management: A History and Criticism http://archive.org/stream/scientificmanag00druruoft#page/140/mode/2up. p. 142
Biography - John Wayne Gacy: Monster in Disguise. A & E Home Video, 2000. Watched March 1, 2010.
“I'm not big on regret. It's not on my schedule.”
Source: Today I Will: A Year of Quotes, Notes, and Promises to Myself
“Routines and schedules
A drug that'll kill you”
Little by Little
Lyrics, The King of Limbs (2011)
“What was scheduled had no connection with what actually happened.”
Source: The Marianne Trilogy, Marianne, the Madame, and the Momentary Gods (1988), Chapter 6 (p. 67)