William Goldman Quotes

I was running from one problem or place to another, with no time left to study, or sleep, or just breathe. I felt pulled in all directions, fighting to keep all these obligations circling in the air above me. It was only a matter of time before something fell.

I don't deal at all well with the relative amount of stuff I have to face already.

Sometimes I feel like just to get all my own work done would be great. You always feel like you're behind, and they're six other things that you wish you could get to but you can't.

I don't get distracted until the weight of other things left undone finally tips the balance; my mind is flooded with calls, bills, supermarkets, letters, and I have to stop and sort things out.

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.

I tend to take on a lot of things. And then they all just seem to happen at once. Or maybe I'm not good at saying 'No'. But the juggling's fun.

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

When I arrived in Texas in 2001, I felt an enormous amount of pressure. I felt like I had all the weight of the world on top of me, and I needed to perform, and perform at a high level every day.

There is an awful lot of pressure on me.

At times, I feel like I got the world on my shoulders.

The weight of the world on my shoulders was something that I had to let go.

I never feel like I should have any time free.

I'm supposed to be everywhere all the time!

I really, genuinely don't look at my schedule too often, because when I do, I get a little overwhelmed by how much is going on.

When a country is at war we want Congressmen, regardless of party, to back up the government of the United States.

We are so busy that the truth about our lives can't catch up.

I have so much to do! And there's so little time!

There's this emotion we all feel of being overwhelmed at times, feeling that you can't get ahead. For me it's self-imposed because I'm so driven and I'm always going from project to project.

Things are gradually falling into place on top of me.

I'm up to my hairline in planning. It's a lot, especially when you're a woman of detail.

It seems like I don't have a lot of time for all the things I need to do. I'm spreading myself fairly thin. I have responsibilities to my children. I have a big staff that works for me. And when you have a staff, and I'm sure you know this, you're always concerned with everybody's life all the time.

I try to take it one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once.

My head is buried in the sands of tomorrow, while my tail feathers are singed by the hot sun of today.

There's a lot to do. There's a lot to do. More than I even thought.

Maybe that's good to not feel like you have to keep up when there's so much to keep up with right now. It's bottomless.