Sadie Jones Quotes

I am a great procrastinator. When the writing is going really well, the laundry piles up.

I'm a project guy, but when my list of things to do gets too long or involved, it can stress me out to the point of catatonia. So I focus on the small stuff first and keep the larger picture as motivation - but not so close that it overwhelms.

You can't work on 15 problems at the same 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.

I feel I have so many projects and I haven't completed them yet.

Many people feel they must multi-task because everybody else is multitasking, but this is partly because they are all interrupting each other so much.

I can't do too many things at one time.

Another cause of confusion, and the resulting feelings of nervousness, hurry, and anxiety, is the absurd habit of trying to do many things at one time.

I'm not a very organized person for being uber work-obsessed. I struggle to keep it all organized because everything can become important and, when you have so many spinning plates, they sometimes can cancel each other out because you lose track of everything.

I find it so easy to get distracted - I try not to do more than one thing at any one time.

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.

Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow.

No one would choose to be jerked randomly off task again and again until you have half a dozen things you're trying to get done, all at the same time.

Also, I'm always learning better and better how to prioritize and how to leave certain things for the next day.

Multitasking? I can't even do two things at once. I can't even do one thing at once.

To do two things at once is to do neither.

Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed be doing at that moment.

The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.

I have a short attention span, so when one book isn't working out, I just work on another.

Juggling too many things can disturb the balance and throw your personal or professional life off track.

You're actually making the rest of your day productive by spending 30 minutes reviewing your to-do's, prioritizing them, and ruthlessly removing things that shouldn't be there.

It took me a long time to figure out that I didn't have to do everything, that it was actually a lot more helpful if I did a couple things really, really well than a whole bunch of things really badly, or nothing at all, because the whole thing was overwhelming.

If there is something you must do and you cannot do it, you cannot do anything else.

I can multitask very well. But I know exactly when to block off anything coming in from the outside and just stay focused on the film.