Lorne Michaels Quotes

My lab and academic work fill my day from about 9 am to 7 p.m. Then I zoom out the lens to work on my other writing.

I learned that we can do anything, but we can't do everything... at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.

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.

I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.

There is time enough for everything, in the course of the day, if you do but one thing at once; but there is not time enough in the year, if you will do two things at a time.

I try to keep the number of projects I'm involved in down to one per year.

I have found that if I spend the first hour of my day at home, I get more done, and less people steal my time.

I don't consider myself a great multitasker, so I try to do one thing at a time, even though there were opportunities when I was wrestling.

When I do something, I do it for the specified amount of time, and then I do something else.

Your life is too important to give it to distractions.

I don't have the time to be bored.

I pack every minute I can with something to do.

I just have to be very, very organised.

Time management is an oxymoron. Time is beyond our control, and the clock keeps ticking regardless of how we lead our lives. Priority management is the answer to maximizing the time we have.

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.

Boundary setting is really a huge part of time management.

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.

One of the big secrets of finding time is not to watch television.

This is the key to time management - to see the value of every moment.

He hath no leisure who useth it not.

If I was a little bit younger I would worry more. I'd want to do one thing at a time but now I try to do a bunch of different things at a time if I can.

One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.

The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.

Also, I'm always learning better and better how to prioritize and how to leave certain things for the next day.