Damon Lindelof Quotes

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

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.

I'm a workaholic, I always try to fill my time with projects.

Whether it's working on five or 10 different things at the same time, I've got to stay in people's faces.

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

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

I am a workaholic and can do four things at a time.

Person who chases two rabbits catches neither.

He who attempts to do all will waste his life in doing little.

A 'harmonized' life these days sounds like a tall order. Between housework, homework, workwork, and busywork, there are perpetually too many things to do, and not enough time to find that mythical balance. Nothing is more frustrating than feeling like you're doing doing doing but getting nothing truly done that you really want.

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

Thinking is hard work. One can't bear burdens and ideas at the same time.

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.

The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.

Task switching is hard because we do not control what is on our mind. Despite our efforts, the original task continues to occupy our mental bandwidth. Although we can control where our time goes, we cannot fully control how our bandwidth is allocated.

I never think at all when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well.

I have no organisational skills. All my energy goes into worry - worrying takes a lot of energy.

I kind of think too much, I try do too many things at once.

I'm a terrible procrastinator.

I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.

The only thing I wasn't prepared for was being everywhere all at the same time.

I am very busy and don't have a lot of down time, but I write my best songs in those situations. I enjoy my life the most when I have a bunch of things going on at the same time.

I'll always be working on five things at once, usually with those documents open at the same time because if I get stuck somewhere I'll jump over to something else. That's how my head has always worked.

There are different usage patterns - I never do email during the day. I don't multitask well at all. I don't know how to be in a meeting and participate and be on email at the same time. I do see some people do it more effectively. I've never quite figured that out.

I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck on one, I hop back and forth.