Ellen DeGeneres Quotes

I gotta keep busy. I'm not happy unless I'm working on two, three things.

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

At one time, late Yash-ji, too, wanted to do two to three films, but somehow, I am not the kind to do too many things at the same time. I like to take it slow and steady.

I'm a happy human being when I'm overloaded with stuff to do, but I got stuff to do.

I have to stay positive and try to find time to do what I want to do while working at the same time.

I try to compartmentalize as much as possible, and I have the most amazing team in the world. They really set up my time in a way that is completely efficient all the time.

If I was a little bit younger I would worry more. I'd want to do one thing at a time but now I try to do a bunch of different things at a time if I can.

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.

As soon as one project is finished I like to go straight on to something else.

I like to stay busy. I am a workaholic, and I like to be creative.

I don't mind being busy.

Honestly, at times, I still get bored. 'Dancing with the Stars' kept me busy, and that's what I like. When I first started fighting, I was working two jobs, and I was still going to school at the same time while training. I'm meant to be a busy person.

One of the best things my mother passed on to me was being an efficient multitasker.

The thing is, I really like working. If I sit around too much, I get really bad anxiety.

People always ask me, how do you do everything you do?

If I leave my computer, I'm probably not going to get back for hours. If I take a few minutes to answer questions and go web surfing, then guilt kicks in and I get back to work.

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.

If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do.

I do give myself a break in my personal life but I think in work, if you don't push yourself you get bored and want to do something else.

I'm an early bird, partly because I like to have some quiet time and partly because by 9am emails begin arriving, the phone starts ringing and I have dragons to kill of one sort or another.

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

Time is valuable; people are busy.

I've learned time management, organization and I have priorities.

A lot of people thought I wasn't doing anything because I was spending a lot of time socialising and going out, but I've always managed to get work actually done.

I learned that we can do anything, but we can't do everything... at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.