David Seabury 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.

When I'm working, I'm working and I'm focused on that day's work.

No matter what your work today, if it is worth while at all - time to plan it out, time to do it well, and time to finish it, is your day's greatest gift and your greatest job.

It's not how many hours you put in with a client or on a project. It's the quantity and quality of your energy - your focus and force - that determine whether that time is valuable.

I can handle a lot of work. I've always been able to. I'm a very focused individual. I come to my studio at about 7:30 in the morning and exit almost 5:00 P.M. In that time, those eight or nine hours, it's kind of laser focus on whatever I'm working on. There aren't really any distractions or anything.

Now, when it's time to get down to business, I get down to business.

There'll come a writing phase where you have to defend the time, unplug the phone and put in the hours to get it done.

If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.

I'm quite good at multitasking, but I have to do things immediately.

When it is time to get to work, I go away completely and don't do anything except the work. And that can be 16 hours a day.

I want to concentrate on work and won't do anything to divert my concentration.

The criterion of action is that todays work should not be deferred till the following day.

Devoting a little of yourself to everything means committing a great deal of yourself to nothing.

The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day. Never let your correspondence fall behind. Whatever piece of business you have in hand, before stopping, do all the labor pertaining to it which can then be done.

Momentum is a fragile force. Its worst enemy: procrastination. Its best friend: a deadline (think Election Day). Implication no. 1 (and there is no no. 2): Get to work! NOW!

You don't need endless time and perfect conditions. Do it now. Do it today. Do it for twenty minutes and watch your heart start beating.

I don't wait for moods - you'd never get anything done if you did.

You'd be amazed how much research you can get done when you have no life whatsoever.

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.

Laziness is a programmers main virtue.

People with good work habits have to-do lists that are reasonably prioritized, and they make themselves do what needs to be done. By contrast, people with poor work habits almost randomly react to the stuff that comes at them, or they can't bring themselves to do the things they need to do but don't like to do (or are unable to do).

I'm in lockdown mode as far as what I want to accomplish. I don't let anything else get in my way.

Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.

I like to work all the time and really immerse myself in the project.

I just have work to do; I just do it.