Daniel Pink ON: How to Master Time Management & Turn Procrastination into Productivity

In many cases, people who don't feel like they have enough time... it's not a sufficiency of time issue; it's a sufficiency of priority issue. They actually don't have any clarity about the purpose of their priorities.

Procrastination is not always bad, okay? Sometimes, you're procrastinating for a reason—because you haven't worked it out, because you're still incubating an idea. So, it's not inherently bad. It's not like all procrastination is bad.

We think that belief precedes action—that you have to convince yourself, and that is the impetus to act. In many cases, more cases than we realize, the arrow runs in the other direction—getting yourself to act can actually trigger the belief.

Taking breaks is one of the most powerful bang-for-the-buck things you can do for your mental, physical, and professional well-being.

The best lives, in some ways, are unadorned lives—lives that are not adorned by the trappings of wealth, or performative complexity, or posturing, or status-seeking but are the simplicity of do you have people who love you and do you have people you love?

Clarity and simplicity... those are things that I, as a creator and as a consumer, prize very, very deeply.

Our brain power does not remain constant over the course of a day ... So, doing something at 9 AM is not the same as doing something at 3 PM.

In general, in America, marriages, are more likely to last if people get married after age 25 and before age, I think, 34—somewhere around there.

Especially in America today, people with more formal education are more likely to get married and stay married. People with less formal education are less likely to get married and less likely to stay married if they are.