Vita Sackville-West Quotes

I'm not a very organized person for being uber work-obsessed. I struggle to keep it all organized because everything can become important and, when you have so many spinning plates, they sometimes can cancel each other out because you lose track of everything.

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 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 the ultimate organizer! My major at Stanford was "Organizational Behavior" so I love to multi-task and stay extra busy.

Multitasking is a part of my everyday life.

I always have a million things going on at once, but I try to put my energy into the most immediate need.

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

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.

I have to always make sure I don't stay in one place and spend too much time one subject. I have my wife tell me [through an earpiece], "Come back! You're taking too long on that subject." I need to be reeled in.

If people would reflect that one can only do one thing at a time and therefore there is never more than one thing to do at a time, there would be less fatigue in the world.

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.

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

Another cause of confusion, and the resulting feelings of nervousness, hurry, and anxiety, is the absurd habit of trying to do many things at one time.

Each thing I do, I rush through, so I can do something else.

I think I've only spent about ten percent of my energies on writing. The other ninety percent went to keeping my head above water.

The busy man is never wise and the wise man is never busy.

I am a person who always feels like I am not doing the right thing because there's always so many things that need to get done.

I think my biggest career mistake has been taking on too much. And I think this is kind of - I think it's related to the Internet world, where you're always multitasking and you have a million windows open and you feel like you can do a lot at the same time.

He who attempts to do all will waste his life in doing little.

I'll be very busy, which is all I need.

Be busy in trading, receiving, and giving, for life is too good to be wasted in living.

Abrams's Advice: When eating an elephant, take one bite at a time.

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

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.

I think all of us are multitasking a little more today than we used to or than we would like to. And I think that the issue of work-life balance is a critical issue for every company around the world.