Jacqueline Woodson Quotes

I work better when I'm juggling projects. Nothing worse than watching someone really embrace what they're doing if they love it too much.

I'm lucky - I can do two things at once.

But I find the best things I do, I do when I'm trying to avoid doing something else I'm supposed to be doing. You know, you're working on something. You get bugged, or you lose your enthusiasm or something. So you turn to something else with an absolute vengeance.

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

I like to work on a number of things simultaneously. If you're working on a variety of projects and if you get stuck on one of them, you can move to another without grinding your gears indefinitely.

I need to have something else going on. I'm able to write a lot if I have an episode of 'Friday Night Lights' going on my computer.

The secret to multitasking is that it isn't actually multitasking. It's just extreme focus and organization.

I'm never really trying to focus on one aim.

If I think of something, half-way into it, I can throw it in there and it won't be so far down the line that it would be insignificant. However, I also like to completely focus on something for a certain period of time, and then be able to move on to something else.

I've gotten much better at multi-tasking. It's hard, though. But, writing a script is not totally focused. You're taking little breaks, all the time. If a kid runs in, you give 'em a horsey ride. It's a pretty fluid process.

Research shows you get multiple tasks done faster if you do them one at a time. It also decreases stress and raises happiness.

No one would choose to be jerked randomly off task again and again until you have half a dozen things you're trying to get done, all at the same time.

Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.

I tend to write in coffee shops and restaurants with friends of mine because if I'm at home, I get distracted by the television or the cats or my husband, or... you know - all of those things that make it easy to procrastinate.

The only times I'm not relaxed are when I haven't got a project on the go.

Play more than one game at a time. This is a painless way to learn how to do many things at once.

Smart people tend to enjoy thinking about a lot of things at once. I'd say entrepreneurs should be serial monogamists; do one thing at a time until you make sufficient progress and then move on.

You have to make one thing a priority and achieve balance that way, rather than trying to do everything all at once.

When you're too relaxed it's not good to create.

The most difficult thing about painting is the self-discipline. When I finish a job, I give myself a few days, but then I have to discipline myself quite fiercely if I want to do some painting that's worthwhile. Otherwise, you're just doodling. It's much easier when you're just told what you have to do.

To do two things at once is to do neither.

The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything.

I'm more focused and have a greater sense of challenge, because I constantly feel the weight of time.

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.

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