Virginia Postrel Quotes

I think I'm realising more and more that I've got a job to do and I can't be doing the big nights out and working to my full potential the next day. I feel much better for it.

If I was a little bit younger I would worry more. I'd want to do one thing at a time but now I try to do a bunch of different things at a time if I can.

We cannot waste time. We can only waste ourselves.

Just put football first, or your job first. Give everything you've got all week, work hard, work super-hard to take it to the next level every week. And when you feel like you got to the point where you want to be, you definitely need the time to go out, relax, have a good time, take all the stress off it.

Sometimes I'm dealing with so much business, and my mind will be so stressed, that I'll go a week without writing... But the benefit of doing everything yourself is that you get a major payoff.

I grew up while I was in college. I learned how to take care of myself. I learned how to prioritize things. I learned how to get things done.

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

I'm not a potato sack; I've never sat on my couch. If I'm home, I'm cleaning, feeding my dogs, doing stuff. Life is too precious to waste time.

I don't say no as much as I should. I'm an extreme workaholic. So I can be sick, and I still say yes to anything. When you are the CEO of your own company, editor of your own videos, your own writer, and you do every role yourself, you have a hard time saying no to opportunities.

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.

Getting up early is one of the gifts I give myself.

But it's mostly about pacing yourself when you do these movies.

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 do give myself a break in my personal life but I think in work, if you don't push yourself you get bored and want to do something else.

I have realized sometimes I do better working under a crazy schedule. It gives me less time to overthink things and forces me to be present.

I take mentoring very seriously and as a result I hardly get any work done during the school year.

There are people who literally cannot start a project until the deadline is four hours away, even if it's a big one. And those people have a serious problem. My recommendation is set up mini-deadlines. You might say, 'Okay, here's my deadline after three days for this and there's another deadline for that and then a third deadline.'

I don't feel I'm a compulsive person. I multitask. I'm really well-organised, and I have lots of people to help me.

It is the idle man, not the great worker, who is always complaining that he has no time or opportunity.

I'm at my best when I'm working. I just recently learned how to find balance and deal with downtime and take advantage of it.

In college, everything's structured. In the NBA, it's like, you have a lot of free time, and you have to use it wisely. A lot of the time, you're in a hotel room all day. And rest is really the most important thing. Then, just trying to enjoy yourself and have fun.

Everyday, all day I have to be productive. And when I ain't productive, I get concerned.

Am I a workaholic? Yes, but I also have no problem taking time for myself.

Don't keep your own schedule - that will eat too much of your time keeping your own schedule. And when you are tired, stop. Because if you are too tired, you become not productive, and you are wasting time.

Procrastination is your body telling you you need to back off a bit and think more about what you are doing.