Make Time Quotes

“Reflect: Adjust and Improve Your System”
― Jake Knapp, Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day

“charge your battery with exercise, food, sleep, quiet, and face-to-face time.”
― Jake Knapp, Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day

“Energize: Use the Body to Recharge the Brain”
― Jake Knapp, Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day

“Laser: Beat Distraction to Make Time for Your Highlight”
― Jake Knapp, Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day

“Make Time Is Just Four Steps, Repeated Every Day”
― Jake Knapp, Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day

“People experienced dramatic changes from tactics such as removing apps on their smartphones and prioritizing one task each day.”
― Jake Knapp, Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day

“We applied the same tactic of choosing one daily task and putting time on the calendar to get it done”
― Jake Knapp, Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day

“Make Time was resilient. We found ourselves with more energy and headspace than we’d ever had,”
― Jake Knapp, Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day

“Experimenting allowed us to improve the process,”
― Jake Knapp, Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day

“the importance of energy for focused work and clear thinking.”
― Jake Knapp, Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day

“we got more done when we banned devices.”
― Jake Knapp, Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day

“ways to switch our default setting from “distracted” to “focused.”
― Jake Knapp, Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day

“The first thing we learned was that something magic happens when you start the day with one high-priority goal.”
― Jake Knapp, Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day

“system” would work only if it changed our defaults, making distractions harder to access instead of relying on willpower to constantly fight them.”
― Jake Knapp, Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day

“he was interested in what he called “the system.” It was almost mystical. He didn’t know exactly what it was, but he believed it existed: a simple framework for avoiding distractions, maintaining energy, and making more time.”
― Jake Knapp, Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day

“John was never stressed. He completed important work ahead of schedule yet somehow found time for side projects.”
― Jake Knapp, Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day

“I thought. “If the iPhone wasn’t making me happier, what about everything else?”
― Jake Knapp, Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day

“I started wondering how many other parts of my life needed to be reexamined, reset, and redesigned. What other defaults was I accepting blindly, and how could I take charge?”
― Jake Knapp, Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day

“Make Time is not about productivity.”
― Jake Knapp, Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day

“Instead, it’s a framework designed to help you actually create more time in your day for the things you care about, whether that’s spending time with your family,”
― Jake Knapp, Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day

“It’s not about getting more done, finishing your to-dos faster, or outsourcing your life. Instead, it’s a framework designed to help you actually create more time in your day”
― Jake Knapp, Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day

“What you do every day matters more than what you do once in a while. —GRETCHEN RUBIN”
― Jake Knapp, Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day

“Our modern world, nice as it is, defaults to an entirely different lifestyle. Physical activity defaults to sitting. Human interaction defaults to screens. Food comes wrapped in plastic, and sleep often is squeezed into our days as an afterthought. How the heck did we get here?”
― Jake Knapp, Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day

“Next time you’re struggling to get into Laser mode, put away your computer or tablet and pick up a pen.”
― Jake Knapp, Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day

“He looked through the lens of a product designer and figured this 'system' would work only if it changed our defaults, making distractions harder to access instead of relying on willpower to constantly fight them.”
― Jake Knapp;John Zeratsky, Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day

“I had a good job, a great girlfriend, and close friends who lived nearby. An outsider would have looked at my life and said, 'He's living the dream.' So why did I feel disconnected from the reality of my dreamlike life?”
― John Zeratsky, Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day

“Por ejemplo, un estudio de 2013 de la Universidad de California, Santa Barbara, descubrió que los estudiantes que meditaban tan solo diez minutos al día, durante dos semanas, mejoraron su media en el GRE (el Graduate Record Examinations, un examen superdifícil) verbal de 460 a 520 puntos. Es un impulso estupendo para tu cerebro a cambio de un esfuerzo mínimo.”
― Jake Knapp, Make Time: Cómo enfocarte en lo que importa cada día

“The first step is choosing a single highlight to prioritize in your day. Next, you’ll employ specific tactics to stay laser-focused on that highlight—we’ll offer a menu of tricks to beat distraction in an always-connected world. Throughout the day, you’ll build energy so you can stay in control of your time and attention. Finally, you’ll reflect on the day with a few simple notes.”
― Jake Knapp, Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day

“Research shows that the way you experience your days is not determined primarily by what happens to you. In fact, you create your own reality by choosing what you pay attention to.”
― Jake Knapp, Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day

“Something magic happens when you start the day with one high priority goal.”
― Jake Knapp;John Zeratsky, Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day