Maureen O'Sullivan Quotes

I just think there are enough hours in the day. If you just focus and dedicate yourself and approach each task as it presents itself, you can accomplish a lot.

I have a crazy amount of different jobs, so the way I manage that is to not do more than one at a time. It's like old computers that had small memory chips, they would do something called swapping, where they would fill the memory with one task, do it and get it out.

As soon as you have two small children, they take up a lot of time and energy.

When I do something, I do it for the specified amount of time, and then I do something else.

I mean time management is a big factor in my life. I'm a very organized person. You can only do one thing at a time, so that's the main way I do everything. When I'm with my kids, I'm with my kids. When I'm directing a movie, I'm directing a movie. When I'm making Magic Mike, I'm making Magic Mike. So you just really have to fragment and focus.

I don't have the time to be bored.

When you have two busy kids running around the house, returning e-mails is a task, let alone surfing the web.

It's always 'busy' with four children; it's chaos.

You can have fun, but when it is time to work, work hard and be focused.

After raising twins, you get organized.

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.

When I was bringing up a child, I taught myself to write in very short, concentrated bursts. If I had a weekend, or a week, I'd do unbelievable amounts of work.

The actual work of recording a record or making a film just requires that you consciously block the time out to do that and nothing else. That's what I do.

I am a mother, so I'm used to balancing things.

Time can be dissected easily: an hour can be cut up in many ways. Fifteen minutes on this memo, a five-minute walk to another meeting, 30 minutes at that meeting and then 10 minutes debriefing. Oh, and maybe a quick phone call on the walk to that meeting. The busy are expert at dissection: that's how they make it all fit.

As a wife, daughter, friend, and the founder and CEO of LearnVest, my schedule is anything but simple. But I learned early on how meticulously manage my time.

Nothing comes before my children. I find that putting everything else in order of importance also helps to get everything done.

You can't master time, but you have to work your hardest to manage it.

One of the nice things about being busy is it makes you focus on what's important to you and how you use your time.

I always have a million things going on at once, but I try to put my energy into the most immediate need.

Back in the day, years ago, in 1988, the only TV I watched was 'Doctor Who' because I had children and two full-time jobs, and 'Doctor Who' was the exact length of time it took to do my nails, so I would watch 'Doctor Who' once a week!

Half of the time, I'm walking around a construction site, then I'm transitioning into the evening, having drinks with the girlfriends or meeting with my husband and then racing back home to put the kids to bed. I have less time, so I'm a much more efficient decision maker.

There is time enough for everything, in the course of the day, if you do but one thing at once; but there is not time enough in the year, if you will do two things at a time.

I will say I highly recommend, if you want to write a book also, have a child in the midst of that process because it will really force you to organize your time.