Anna Chlumsky Quotes

You know, unfortunately I'm only one person. I can't really be in two places at one time and the amount of focus that I need to put into Slipknot makes it really difficult for me to be on tour with Stone Sour.

Lack of time is actually lack of priorities.

The trouble with everything, these days, for me, is time. There is only one me. There are a ridiculous number of demands on my time. There are so many things I'm trying to do. It's so much more about when I'm going to get time to do it, if I get time.

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.

Time plays a role in almost every decision. And some decisions define your attitude about time.

There's always more demands than there's time to meet them, so it's constantly a matter of trying to balance them.

Most people have never thought through how they're going to allocate their time. You need to make a decision in advance.

Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

When I have spare time, I catch up on things I've had to postpone due to lack of time.

Each night before I go to bed, I take out a small card and write a list of the things I need to do the next day in order of their priority.

My problem is always the number of hours in a day, not the number of things I want to do.

When I come into the office, the first thing I do is I plan out what I want to accomplish that day. I write it down in my notebook and make sure I accomplish it before I leave that day.

I cannot work on a Revamp album when I tour with Nightwish. And I cannot do any Nightwish stuff when I'm touring with Revamp.

The only thing I don't have is enough time.

There just aren't enough hours in the day; I've got a lot of things that I want to do, and those that I can do, I'm going to make sure that I do do!

There are never enough minutes in the day for what I want to do.

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

I have a timetable, but no routine.

Do one thing at a time. Start the day with a list of things you have to do, and do the most important things first. Even if you don't get the list done, you've gotten the most important things done. So many people spend so much time on things that aren't important.

I think that since I've had the baby, who's almost two, it's a work-hard-play-hard. Imake a lot of lists, I'm very scheduled, which is hard sometimes, but it keeps me organized - I know Now I can play or Now I've got to work.

Compile your to-do list for tomorrow no later than this evening.

We're all confounded by a lack of time.

As in all things, it is terribly important to have a sense of priorities in what you do. And to make certain that priorities do not clash.

Don't start the day until you have it finished. Don't start the week until you have it finished. Don't start the month until you have it finished. Plan your day.

I think the hardest part is figuring out what to say no to because the whole start of your career is just begging anybody to let you perform or to contribute music to something. Then it's like turning on a faucet because the moment it's on, people are like, "Oh, you can do stuff? All right. Well, you want to do it every single thing?