Maria Cornejo Quotes

If I have one thing on in a week, I find it very difficult to get back to work that week. I need a lot of dreaming time.

The only way to have time is to shut down and then do what you want to do.

The biggest need that women have is more time. We all want more time in our lives. More time in the morning to get ready. More time in the evening to spend time with our families. All of these things - more time to move up that career path. It's about time.

I don't take time off.

I usually sit down at 8 A.M. and work through to 7 P.M., with breaks that total no more than an hour and a half.

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

I'm an entrepreneur, so I've got to be ruthless about 'me' time if I want to have any left to myself! I make myself leave the office by 8 or 9 P.M. most nights, even if I do curl up with my laptop and a glass of wine at home to get through email.

I have a concentrated period of work for about five months, and then I take a bunch of time off. That's just the way I work.

Very, very few people actually have long stretches of uninterrupted time at an office.

You have to keep time aside for life, which I haven't done enough over the past couple years.

Time hygiene is about finding more time for ourselves: to think, to do what we like.

A busy man is someone who doesn't find 24 hours enough to do his work. But for me, even after I finish my work, I find a lot of time for myself.

My working day usually lasts from 9 A.M. to 7 P.M., then two hours of viewing time for myself. It's like a religion.

Work. Don't Think. Relax.

I've learned I'm rarely able to stay at home and not work. If I try to 'just sit on my couch for a little while,' I am going to grab my laptop and just knock out a few more emails, or start sketching up some product ideas for TheMuse.com. So when I want time off, I schedule dinners out, movie outings, and on occasion a flight lesson from Groupon.

We don't have any problem finding enough things to do; the problem we have is making sure we don't overload ourselves inadvertently.

A calm environment is for after I finish work.

I drop my kid off at school and then race home, and it's a very limited time. I can only do really serious writing for a couple of hours. And then I always go on a walk, I do a one-to-two-hour walk; I don't go running or hard hiking.

Everyone is always telling me that I must be exhausted, but I've learned how to use my time well, and that includes holidays to recharge. I always try to give myself big chunks of time to think about what the next project is going to be.

I'm at the gym at 6, so I'm usually in my office by 7:15. And I try to not schedule a lot of meetings before 8. So I've got that first hour to get myself organized for the day and to make sure that I've structured what I want to do.

I delight in my family obligations, but they leave little time for breaks let alone quick trips across the country.

I don't take vacations.

Every morning, I go off to a small studio behind my house to write. I try to ignore all email and phone calls until lunchtime. Then I launch into the sometimes frantic busy-ness of a tightly scheduled day.

Work doesn't seem to interfere with my life. I have time for everything, even time to be alone.

I'm better when I'm busy. I am happier. I am a bit useless when I'm not busy. I start thinking too much, which is never a good thing. When I'm busy I have a better perspective on what really matters - the priorities.