Amy Sedaris Quotes

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

I love being busy.

I discovered that the best thing for me was to be very busy all the time. I can get a lot done, and I can do those tasks well.

I like to have a sense of accomplishment through work. I'm busy golfing and attending activities, but I think of holding a meeting as playing golf. I think my approach is very good. I don't feel I lose a lot of fun things in life even though I am busy all day.

You can't get anything done hanging out all day long.

I'm not good when idle.

I really enjoy being busy and feeling completely immersed in work, knowing I'm working as hard as I can.

I am big on writing to-do lists and having new goals to reach all the time, as it keeps me motivated and inspired.

When I am idle and shiftless, my affairs become confused; when I work, I get results ... not great results, but enough to encourage me.

No matter what your work today, if it is worth while at all - time to plan it out, time to do it well, and time to finish it, is your day's greatest gift and your greatest job.

Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.

I just think there are enough hours in the day. If you just focus and dedicate yourself and approach each task as it presents itself, you can accomplish a lot.

The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.

I have a deadline. I'm glad. I think that will help me get it done.

Isn't it amazing how much stuff we get done the day before vacation?

The most important part of life is work, it's the flow, it's getting stuff done, feeling like you're doing something.

I love to keep busy. But I never forget it's the countdown that made it all possible.

I felt that it was my duty not to senselessly waste my time. And since I didn't want to waste my time, I tried to accomplish as much as possible.

Every project is a race between your enthusiasm and your ability to get it done. Go fast. Don't slow down. A year from now, new things will interest you.

If you're like me, I get hooked into to-do lists, you know. I'll say I checked that off. Okay, I did that. And you have all these things you're doing.

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

I've always been really good at staying busy. Even while I'm working, I'm looking at what the next thing is.

You can spend your time daydreaming or make use of it in other ways.

There are things I want to get done, and If I can reconnect where I was before, working on the issues I'm interested in, that's exciting to me.

I don't think I've been bored, ever. I've always been working on two or three things at a time; whether it was in the early days, or whatever, I was always working on something.