Jen Lancaster Quotes

I know how to do anything, I'm a mom.

I pretty much know that directing means that you have to answer about a thousand questions every day and you have to answer them quick.

I think Donald Trump is a preeminent multitasker, can handle multiple things at one time, and when he's committed to doing something, nothing stops him or gets in his way.

I've found that motherhood helps you figure out what absolutely needs to be done and what doesn't. You just learn to do everything quicker and quicker - your style and your makeup gets more refined and generally easier.

I've been a medical and public health professional as well as a mother. I became skilled at juggling a number of priorities and competing interests. Like many other female leaders, I've tried to serve as a role model for the young women at my organization who are trying to balance a high-level leadership position and a family.

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.

As a wife, daughter, friend, and the founder and CEO of LearnVest, my schedule is anything but simple. But I learned early on how meticulously manage my time.

Whenever the occasion arose, he rose to the occasion.

You don't have to get things done all the time to be productive.

I've learned that every working mom is a superwoman.

Action is just one of my skills.

A good head has one hundred hands.

We can and we will solve our problems for ourselves. We know how. We can, and we will.

I'm resilient, and I'm professional.

My message to the ladies would be, you can do all of the things, but not all of them at the same time.

Parenting is one of the best management training programs there is.

The skills necessary to change nappies or negotiate Brexit are obviously very different, but both involve a great deal of trust in the competence of the people doing the job.

I have had to answer questions like, 'But you don't look like lead material.' Now, I still don't know what 'lead material' looks like because everyone has eyes, a nose, and a face.

You know the adage, when you want something done, ask a busy person. It's so true. Having kids taught me to prioritize, delegate, and accept life's imperfections. I also learned the all-important skill of jumping off the train: taking breaks in career and passion pursuits to tend to the things that last.

I'm very tough. Come to a council meeting, and you'll see it.

I keep explaining this to people: I can do more than one thing.

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.

I feel like my life right now is so crazy; there's no time to dwell on difficult things. You just have to figure out how to fix it or get past it because there is no time to do anything else. Being a mom to a toddler, my career, and my husband's career - all of our worlds just kind of colliding at once, you just make it work.

Slaying the dragon of delay is no sport for the short-winded.