Neil Burger Quotes

I am a great procrastinator. When the writing is going really well, the laundry piles up.

I feel I have so many projects and I haven't completed them yet.

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.

If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do.

No doubt, some people are quantitatively less busy than others and some much more so, but that doesn't change the shared experience: most everyone I know feels frazzled and overwhelmed most of the time.

Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.

I mean, I can get things done if I need to, but I can really be completely irresponsible and procrastinate until the very, very, very bitter end. In fact, sometimes I work better under pressure.

I'm a happy human being when I'm overloaded with stuff to do, but I got stuff to do.

My productivity is overwhelming!

In some ways I was curt because there's an unbelievable amount to accomplish in a day.

I never think I work hard enough, as much things I have on my plate.

There's a lot to do. There's a lot to do. More than I even thought.

The best cure for procrastination is to have so much on your plate that procrastination is no longer an option.

I love to be busy and be challenged. I'm my happiest when I'm under pressure and almost overwhelmed by how much I have to get done.

My schedule is always tight. But I like to have the pressure of having to finish doing something; it gives me an added edge.

One of the best things my mother passed on to me was being an efficient multitasker.

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'm usually working on eight or 10 things at once.

No, I'm not very productive at all. I'm probably like an animal. I mean, great animals in the ocean feed all the time. I'm someone who procrastinates, worries, for most of a month, and then I'll have a flurry of manic productivity with a sense of great urgency and fear for, like, two days.

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

I don't get distracted until the weight of other things left undone finally tips the balance; my mind is flooded with calls, bills, supermarkets, letters, and I have to stop and sort things out.

The best person to get something done is a busy person.

I have realized sometimes I do better working under a crazy schedule. It gives me less time to overthink things and forces me to be present.

Having deadlines helps because people are constantly breathing down my neck, and tapping their toes waiting for pages. So I just have to work nine to five. If I didn't have deadlines then I might be more of a golden hour kind of guy, writing from eight to noon and calling it a day, but that's just not the way I work right now.

The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.