Sage Northcutt Quotes

I felt sad because everyday I had to wake up early to practice before going to school. After school I had to go back to tennis again, and then after tennis I had homework. I didn't have time to play.

Many kids, particularly in lower-income families, would actually benefit from more structured activities. Plenty of children, especially teenagers, thrive on a busy schedule. But just as other trappings of modern childhood, from homework to technology, are subject to the law of diminishing returns, there is a danger of overscheduling the young.

I was working full-time and going to school at night and on the weekends. It was just crazy.

That's what really bothered me about high school: There was just no time to do anything other than school.

It seems every morning I wake up to face a list of 20 things to do, with time only to do 10, and somehow I always wind up squishing in 30.

I always joke that, at any given time, I'm supposed to be at two other places.

I find I'm the sort of harried working mother who has difficulty scheduling in a bit of rest amid the Ptolemaically complicated interlocking gears of professional and personal life.

Many think kids have lots of time and few responsibilities. And that's just not true. They are stressed and under pressure.

I'm a mom - I'm lucky if I get to shower in the morning. Luckily, nail polish stays on my toes. I've been so bad on the upkeep, though.

I'm busy all the time.

I went to dance classes from 9 in the morning until 1, then to school from 3 to 10 at night, always under the threat that if I failed a single course I could forget about dancing.

There would be times when I got so much work that I didn't have time to write. School interfered with writing more than writing with school.

I was working all the time I was in college. I was working so much that I could hardly do my college work.

We are always rushing to an appointment or trying to meet a deadline.

No doubt, some people are quantitatively less busy than others and some much more so, but that doesn't change the shared experience: most everyone I know feels frazzled and overwhelmed most of the time.

At boarding school there wasn't much time for much of anything except education.

My schedule is too overwhelmingly full to think about the future.

People close to me called me 'Curry in a Hurry.' I was moving through life at 100 miles an hour trying to further my career and be a great mom and make everyone happy.

As a working mum, it's really hard to find time in the day to just relax and take a break. I am constantly on the go.

The busier you are, the less time you have to make decisions.

It is a lot of work when you have to go to school and then try to improve your game at the same time.

I put so much pressure on myself to be perfect. Between homework and sports and drama and being social, I slept about four hours a night through high school and college.

I hadn't realized quite how intense the first few years of grad school would be. When you're being assigned 40 books a week... there's not much room for novels.

Sometimes it feels like there aren't enough hours in a day to get everything done.

Half of the time, I'm walking around a construction site, then I'm transitioning into the evening, having drinks with the girlfriends or meeting with my husband and then racing back home to put the kids to bed. I have less time, so I'm a much more efficient decision maker.