Marilyn vos Savant Quotes

The best person to get something done is a busy person.

Faced with a time shortage, we squeeze tasks into the nooks and crannies of our calendar, leaving less and less time to switch between them. As a result, we become less and less productive exactly when we need to be most productive.

Whenever you have a tight schedule, you sort of have to film whatever you can that day.

The truth is that we all have to do more things than we can rightly do, if we are to do anything at all.

Deadlines are things that we pass through on the way to finishing.

Never before have we had so little time in which to do so much.

Balancing my film career and my music will be something I'm just going to have to deal with, as it happens. I think I can balance it out; the choices will probably be pretty clear. If there's a movie I just have to do, I will work the music around it.

If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do.

Leaders understand that the real fight is the fight against time. There's so much to achieve in such less time.

The thing that would most improve my life is 27 hours in a day. I could meet all my deadlines.

I like to work on a number of things simultaneously. If you're working on a variety of projects and if you get stuck on one of them, you can move to another without grinding your gears indefinitely.

I try to compartmentalize as much as possible, and I have the most amazing team in the world. They really set up my time in a way that is completely efficient all the time.

But I'm very happy to work within tight parameters, and when you know you have an actor for two days, and you have to get that work done in two days, that focuses the mind wonderfully.

With my responsibilities comes having to manage my time more efficiently.

I took business classes as a back up but I made movies all the time. I would get my classes done in two days and then spend the rest of the time making my movies.

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.

I'm more focused and have a greater sense of challenge, because I constantly feel the weight of time.

Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.

I'm used to pressure. When writing must get done, I work in bed, on a bus, a train.

There are times when I am directing, and there are a couple of moments I didn't get the way I wanted, but I know I still have other angles to shoot and I have to be done by noon; I move on.

If I could read while I was driving, showering, socializing or sleeping, I would do it.

I'm quite good at multitasking, but I have to do things immediately.

Not that I believe you can have it all: I believe you can have it all, just not at the same time.

You don't have to get things done all the time to be productive.

Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go.