Yoko Ono Quotes

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

Our to-do lists are so full that we can't hope to complete every item on them. So what do we do? We multitask, juggling several things at once, trying to keep up by keeping busy.

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.

No, my entire life is planned. It's called time management.

I pack every minute I can with something to do.

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.

I'm never in control of my time during the workday.

Now my complaint is there are only 18 hours to work in a day.

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.

You can have anything you want, but not everything. If it was really important to spend an afternoon at my daughter's school, I had to think, how was I going to organize my life to do that? How could I become more efficient? I always tried to put my priorities on the table, personal and professional, and work around them.

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

Time management is the mantra of my life.

When you're on set, and that clock is going, every second you spend doing something is a second you spend not doing something else. That's true of all of life, but it's very vivid on a film set because you're always managing that.

I fit a lot into my days.

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

Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.

When you have endless time, you take all day to go to the grocery store. But, if you have to be at work for 14 hours a day, you manage your time better. I know I do.

In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.

I have to paint at least two times a week, and there's not enough time in the day to do everything.

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

Sometimes I feel like just to get all my own work done would be great. You always feel like you're behind, and they're six other things that you wish you could get to but you can't.

Time is valuable; people are busy.

I have too many friends who tell me that they spend the first hour of every morning going through their e-mail messages. I'd like to use my time more carefully.

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

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.