Daniel Levitin Quotes

I don't mind being busy.

The thing that would most improve my life is 27 hours in a day. I could meet all my deadlines.

I'm working over 80 hours a week and have to keep on track.

I practice at home, in between phone calls, and have much to do.

My problem is always the number of hours in a day, not the number of things I want to do.

We are all so busy and constantly trying to save time and balance everything.

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.

Like many, I am often in back-to-back meetings most of the day.

I've learned to relax more. Everybody feels pressure in what they do, maybe mine is just a little different because there doesn't seem to be enough hours in the day to accomplish what I want to.

A 'harmonized' life these days sounds like a tall order. Between housework, homework, workwork, and busywork, there are perpetually too many things to do, and not enough time to find that mythical balance. Nothing is more frustrating than feeling like you're doing doing doing but getting nothing truly done that you really want.

I pack every minute I can with something to do.

You can really only enjoy life when you're extremely busy.

I have a big life, a small child, I work, I do a lot of things, so I'm often playing catch-up with what's current.

I take mentoring very seriously and as a result I hardly get any work done during the school year.

These days, we have a million things to do and usually one day to do them in.

I try to compartmentalize as much as possible, and I have the most amazing team in the world. They really set up my time in a way that is completely efficient all the time.

Multitasking is a part of my everyday life.

I'm constantly busy.

My mother was a pediatrician, and she kept busy hours. I learned from her you could pack a lot into the day. Every minute had to count, and multitasking was a given.

The busier you are, the less time you have to make decisions.

I feel like I'm too busy writing history to read it.

As we manage our time I think we shall never get out of employment.

I'd have to say the biggest transformation would be my schedule. I'm really, really busy, but it's a lot of fun.

Half of the time, I'm walking around a construction site, then I'm transitioning into the evening, having drinks with the girlfriends or meeting with my husband and then racing back home to put the kids to bed. I have less time, so I'm a much more efficient decision maker.

The truth is that we all have to do more things than we can rightly do, if we are to do anything at all.