John Darnielle Quotes

I've done that quite often, but I've got to be quite honest... as much as you would want to only do one at a time, sometimes projects overlap and there's nothing you can do. Sometimes you to have begin writing a new project just as you're finishing off another.

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

I usually have 10 different animation projects going at a time.

I enjoy multi-tasking, so I want to do a lot of different things. I want to keep all the plates spinning.

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

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

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.

Multitasking is a part of my everyday life.

We're all outriders out there, and what we have is all these large number of tasks - that's the herd; that's all the cattle - a whole bunch of individual, hundreds if not thousands of projects at any given time ongoing that we're trying to complete. So we're trying to keep the cattle herd, keep it all just going in the right direction.

I just like keeping busy and having ten things on the go.

The problem is, you see, I've just got so many subjects I want to direct.

I can multitask.

You can't make two films at the same time.

Trying to work out my schedule is hard but I'm lucky I have two great teams who take care of it all.

I believe in always having a lot of irons in the fire.

Your instinct when someone is busy is to give them the least amount of work so that they can do it.

I think humanity can do more than one thing at the same time.

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

They say multitasking is a female trait, but it's not about gender; it's about personality type.

I'm one of those writers that have always worked on multiple things.

I used to think that deadlines should be ignored until the product was ready: that they were a nuisance, a hurdle in front of quality, a forced measure to get something out the door for the good of the schedule, not the customer.

If you're not good at juggling, then you're not juggling. I always tell people that. If you're dropping a lot of balls, then maybe you shouldn't juggle. And that's fine... there's different ways of working.

I start a lot of things and purposely leave them unfinished. When I have a bunch of really long emails, and I need time to think about the response, I'll actually start replying, leave them as drafts, and move onto something else mid-sentence.

I like multi-tasking.

I've always juggled a lot of projects because at least half the projects you do get shelved. So you have to do a lot of things in order for things to move forward.