Joel Edgerton Quotes

I was running from one problem or place to another, with no time left to study, or sleep, or just breathe. I felt pulled in all directions, fighting to keep all these obligations circling in the air above me. It was only a matter of time before something fell.

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.

I envy people who can think, 'No, I'm not going to work today' when they have a huge pile of deadlines stacking up.

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.

People think, 'Jack, you do too much.'

If I spread myself too thin, I'm not a good actor, I'm not a good mother, and I'm just really high-strung - and everybody hates me.

I always feel like I'm so busy.

No doubt, some people are quantitatively less busy than others and some much more so, but that doesn't change the shared experience: most everyone I know feels frazzled and overwhelmed most of the time.

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

There are a lot of opportunities to do a lot of great, wonderful things, and if you say yes to them all, you will not sleep or breathe or eat.

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

Many of us feel as though we are overloaded and overwhelmed by all the things that are happening, and we can't stop work for even five minutes or we'll fall behind: the idea that if we don't take breaks, we're being more productive.

I literally get one hundred calls a day. I can't get anything done, but I'm happy about it.

We are so busy that the truth about our lives can't catch up.

I have more things going on right now than I can actually do without the invention of a cloning device. It is great!

There's this emotion we all feel of being overwhelmed at times, feeling that you can't get ahead. For me it's self-imposed because I'm so driven and I'm always going from project to project.

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.

Maybe that's good to not feel like you have to keep up when there's so much to keep up with right now. It's bottomless.

Learn to say 'no' to the good so you can say 'yes' to the best.

Sometimes I think I take on a lot of work but that's me.

I'm usually working on eight or 10 things at once.

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.

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

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