Sendhil Mullainathan Quotes

Perhaps, after all, there is something in the theory that only the ultra-busy can find time for everything.

I have schedules that separate everything.

I seem to have a one-track mind. When I was having babies, I did nothing else. When I do pictures, I go all out. I really think it is easier to manage my seven. You can't afford to humor each one of them. They have to learn to do things when they are told.

We need a sense of the value of time - that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities.

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

I have a crazy amount of different jobs, so the way I manage that is to not do more than one at a time. It's like old computers that had small memory chips, they would do something called swapping, where they would fill the memory with one task, do it and get it out.

As a wife, daughter, friend, and the founder and CEO of LearnVest, my schedule is anything but simple. But I learned early on how meticulously manage my time.

It's important to learn how to use your small bits of time. All those begin to count up. It's not the long amounts of time you have that are important. you should learn how to use your snatches of time when they are given to you.

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

I will say I highly recommend, if you want to write a book also, have a child in the midst of that process because it will really force you to organize your time.

When I do something, I do it for the specified amount of time, and then I do something else.

I think ultimately it's just time management. You're just doing a lot more stuff. You're doing the same stuff, you're writing and you're producing, but it just comes with a lot of other things. A lot of long term thinking and plotting things out for the future, bringing elements together. I have a lot of support.

I mean time management is a big factor in my life. I'm a very organized person. You can only do one thing at a time, so that's the main way I do everything. When I'm with my kids, I'm with my kids. When I'm directing a movie, I'm directing a movie. When I'm making Magic Mike, I'm making Magic Mike. So you just really have to fragment and focus.

The big problem is time. I don't have enough of it to do all the things I think about doing.

I don't have the time to be bored.

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

Avoiding the phrase 'I don't have time...', will soon help you to realize that you do have the time needed for just about anything you choose to accomplish in life.

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.

With my responsibilities comes having to manage my time more efficiently.

I learned that we can do anything, but we can't do everything... at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.

I think time management as a label encourages people to view each 24-hour period as a slot in which they should pack as much as possible.

I think of all my time as existing in 15-minute blocks. Most people think in terms of 30-minute chunks, but I've found that when I free up more time, I waste it.

Otherwise, my whole career has just been flinging myself at whatever is most overdue first and letting everything else stack up.

Faced with a time shortage, we squeeze tasks into the nooks and crannies of our calendar, leaving less and less time to switch between them. As a result, we become less and less productive exactly when we need to be most productive.

Most people have never thought through how they're going to allocate their time. You need to make a decision in advance.