Robert Schwentke Quotes

The essence of the best thinking in the area of time management (practice planning) can be captured in a single phrase: Organize and execute around priorities

Remember, America: organization will set you free.

I think that 60 percent of inspiration is organization.

I balance it all by being extremely organized, and I am a very efficient delegator.

My assistants and I often would spend more time planning a practice than the actual practice itself

Dreaming about a thing in order to do it properly is right; but dreaming about it when we should be doing it is wrong.

I know what I want to get down and I haven't got much time to do it in.

We accomplish all that we do through delegation - either to time or to other people.

If you don't have time, the truth is, you don't have priorities. Think harder; don't work harder.

You have to be able to do a bunch of things at once, and not think about things you're not doing while you're doing other things. You have to be disciplined about not trying to do everything, all at the same time. It's hard and fun.

If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now.

I never think of the time I have lost. I just carry out a programme because it's there. It's mapped out for me.

All three parts of filmmaking [writing, shooting, editing] contribute to rhytm. You want the script to be a tight as possible, you want the acting to be as efficient as possible on the set, and you have enough coverage to manipulate the rhythm in the editing room, and then in the editing room you want to find the quickest possible version, even if it's a leisurely paced film. I definitely in filmmaking more and more find writing and directing a means to harvest material for editing. It's all about editing.

I am as prompt as a clock, if I only know the day a thing is wanted—otherwise I am a natural procrastinaturalist.

But why do only unimportant things?" asked Milo, who suddenly remembered how much time he spent each day doing them. "Think of all the trouble it saves," the man explained, and his face looked as if he'd be grinning an evil grin--if he could grin at all. "If you only do the easy and useless jobs, you'll never have to worry about the important ones which are so difficult. You just won't have the time. For there's always something to do to keep you from what you really should be doing, and if it weren't for that dreadful magic staff, you'd never know how much time you were wasting.

Never before have we had so little time in which to do so much.

Being busy is a form of laziness - lazy thinking and indiscriminate action. Being busy is most often used as a guise for avoiding the few critically important but uncomfortable actions.

Five minutes of planning are worth fifteen minutes of just looking.

...We need to strive to keep things in proper balance. Good balance comes in doing things in a timely way and in not procrastinating our preparation or waiting to fulfill our responsibilities until the last minute.

If you plan to face tomorrow, do it soon.

Ordinary people merely think how they shall 'spend' their time; a man of talent tries to 'use' it.

You do the things that need to be done according to priority.

Don't start your day until you have it finished on paper first.

To-Do lists help us break life into small steps.

You're always against the clock. But really just fighting for quality.