Steven Chu Quotes

The Web forces me to be disciplined and not to waste time - but before the Web was invented, there were plenty of opportunities to do that anyway.

If you look up every last detail on your subject, you'll never finish.

I hate wasting time.

If you give yourself to your task at once, you won't have to do it twice.

I procrastinate so much and I get distracted by anything.

When you find yourself on the Internet when you're supposed to be writing, you've already lost. It's even beyond procrastination when you end up on the Internet.

To do two things at once is to do neither.

I spent most of my time playing pool instead of studying.

I always interrupt work with other work, either in a small way or big way, so that's normal.

I have to avoid things like 'World of Warcraft' or 'Minecraft', otherwise I'd never get any work done.

I have a short attention span, so when one book isn't working out, I just work on another.

Sometimes entrepreneurs, successful people, need to put their blinders back on. They're losing their day to distraction, to faulty obligations.

When I work on stories, I tend to lose sight of everything else. I forget to pay bills or to shave. I don't change my clothes as often as I should.

I've found I get big things done when I'm on airplanes or in hotel rooms. It's a total needle-mover to book a fantastic room in a place you adore and then put the 'do not disturb' on the phone and door for a week.

The biggest challenge is to stay focused. It's to have the discipline when there are so many competing things.

I can't even carpe 15 minutes in a row. So a whole diem is out of the question.

A lot of people don't feel like doing very much. Or one project is really all they can do at one time. I can have five or six things going at the same time. It doesn't bother me or tire me, but sometimes it does rattle me.

One can either work or meet. One cannot do both at the same time.

When I work, I work very fast, but preparing to work can take any length of time.

Remove the temptation of idleness and Cupid's bow is useless.

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

He that pursues two hares at once, does not catch one and lets the other go.

There is great power in focusing on what you want..... The person who tries to do everything accomplishes nothing. Most people try to be all things to everyone. And so they end up being nothing to anyone. Confucius nailed the point: "Person who chases two rabbits catches neither."

How can you expect someone to get a good day's work if they are interrupted all day?

When we waste our time, our time wastes us