Stewart Butterfield Quotes

I usually sit down at 8 A.M. and work through to 7 P.M., with breaks that total no more than an hour and a half.

A work-only zone does wonders for your productivity. So, I prefer working at the office now. I spend 8 focused hours there, then I go home to be present with my family.

I take breaks now and then. But when I work, I get things done at a fast pace.

Concentrate on your job and you will forget your other troubles.

I like to work all the time and really immerse myself in the project.

Every morning, I go off to a small studio behind my house to write. I try to ignore all email and phone calls until lunchtime. Then I launch into the sometimes frantic busy-ness of a tightly scheduled day.

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.

There'll come a writing phase where you have to defend the time, unplug the phone and put in the hours to get it done.

I'm at my desk before nine, and I go all day. I'm not necessarily productive all day, but really, who is?

There are different usage patterns - I never do email during the day. I don't multitask well at all. I don't know how to be in a meeting and participate and be on email at the same time. I do see some people do it more effectively. I've never quite figured that out.

I can do a book in three months if I spend all day, seven days a week at it and, in fact, I work better that way.

Work takes up a lot of my brain space. So when I work, it's one thing. I don't have a lot of time to think about dating.

The added work load of a degree has made me focus a lot more when I am in work.

When it is time to get to work, I go away completely and don't do anything except the work. And that can be 16 hours a day.

I get so many requests for interviews. If I talk to everyone, we can't do our job with our customers and work on our software. It would be hard to stay focused.

I used to start at about 10 at night and work until early morning. My preferred way to work is to start in the early afternoon and work until about 3, go do errands, have dinner, and then write for a few more hours in the evening.

I try to prioritize a certain amount of quiet work every day.

When I lived in Boston, I had an office that I rented because I found it wonderful to go away from my house to work: It was so quiet, and I couldn't go to the refrigerator or do the laundry.

Don't write more than 3 hours at a time. I write three hours in the morning, 9 A.M. - 12 P.M. Other people are best late at night.

If you ask people where they go when they really need to get work done, very few will respond 'the office.' If they do say the office, they'll include a qualifier such as 'super-early in the morning before anyone gets in,' or 'I stay late at night after everyone's left,' or 'I sneak in on the weekend.'

People who organize their time in a way that allows them to focus are not only going to get more done, but they'll be less tired and less neurochemically depleted after doing it.

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 always prefer to work intensively on something and then move on to something else. I prefer not to get stuck in something that takes five or six years of my life.

When you work, work. When you play, play. Don't mix the two.