Brooke Baldwin Quotes

I have realized sometimes I do better working under a crazy schedule. It gives me less time to overthink things and forces me to be present.

I'm from the ADHD generation, to be honest - I genuinely was on Ritalin in middle school - so I'm most comfortable with a hundred things going on at once. It's deadlines that get pesky.

Publishers give you deadlines for those last phases of production that are perfectly comfortable for them. So, to whatever extent I can, I like to push those to give me a little more time, and make it so that they're as uncomfortable as I am.

You don't have time to dwell on what is going on in the games.

I'm quite concerned that if I spend time in the office, someone will always find something for you to do. There's always a crisis that needs your urgent attention.

I am one of those people who thrive on deadlines, nothing brings on inspiration more readily than desperation.

You can't do it all. You get many requests all the time, but I still have to focus on football, still have to live my life a little bit. But there are definitely times during the week when you want to take time out.

I'm used to pressure. When writing must get done, I work in bed, on a bus, a train.

Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.

There are times when I am directing, and there are a couple of moments I didn't get the way I wanted, but I know I still have other angles to shoot and I have to be done by noon; I move on.

I always interrupt work with other work, either in a small way or big way, so that's normal.

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.

If you try to multitask in the classic sense of doing two things at once, what you end up doing is quasi-tasking. It's like being with children. You have to give it your full attention for however much time you have, and then you have to give something else your full attention.

I can't deal with all her questions and also be President.

Deadlines concentrate the mind. But deadlines should not be dogmas.

A couple of years ago, I went to dinner with a very high-profile source, and out of respect, I put my phone down for, say, an hour and a half. And during this dinner there was a major breaking story related to the Secret Service. When I picked my phone back up, I had missed about 50 emails and seven phone calls from the network.

I'm trying to get my head in the game, think about the questions I wanted to ask, breast milk is flying everywhere - over my notes - and I - how do you 'lean in' at that moment? What is the equivalent of that for Wolf Blitzer or Joe Scarborough?

With kids and all the other activities around the house, I'm finding it harder to give my full attention to basketball.

It's incredibly hard to get meaningful work done when your workday has been shredded into work moments.

I tend to take on too many projects at the same time, but as I've always done, I will continue to shift my focus onto whatever feels most urgent in the moment.

I'm a precrastinator. Yes, that's an actual term. You know that panic you feel a few hours before a big deadline when you haven't done anything yet? I just feel that a few months ahead of time.

Whatever career you are in, you always have other distractions.

The challenging thing from a work perspective is just the range of things on any given day that you're dealing with and making sure you have the head space to really be giving them the thought and consideration you'd like, too.

Just ask my boss - any time a major story breaks, I'm banging on his door to send me.

Like many, I am often in back-to-back meetings most of the day.