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A committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing, but who, as a group, can meet and decide that nothing can be done.

Committee - a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.

Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than they have to.

A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.

The minute somebody joins a committee... they immediately suffer from committee brain. They become wildly over-enthusiastic, over-optimistic, over-pessimistic. Committees turn people into idiots, and politics is a committee.

Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame.

The hours, minutes and seconds stand as visible reminders that your effort put them all there. Preserve until your next run, when the watch lets you see how Impermanent your efforts are.

'Referring the matter to a committee' can be a device for diluting authority, diffusing responsibility and delaying decisions.

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

I think time management as a label encourages people to view each 24-hour period as a slot in which they should pack as much as possible.