John D. Ehrlichman Quotes

It's a crazy busy schedule, but I still have two hours a day for school because it's a priority.

Let each hour of the day have its allotted duty, and cultivate that power of concentration which grows with its exercise.

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.

I just think there are enough hours in the day. If you just focus and dedicate yourself and approach each task as it presents itself, you can accomplish a lot.

I don't have time for the news clippings. I got my own mission.

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.

It's not how many hours you put in with a client or on a project. It's the quantity and quality of your energy - your focus and force - that determine whether that time is valuable.

You can have fun, but when it is time to work, work hard and be focused.

I can handle a lot of work. I've always been able to. I'm a very focused individual. I come to my studio at about 7:30 in the morning and exit almost 5:00 P.M. In that time, those eight or nine hours, it's kind of laser focus on whatever I'm working on. There aren't really any distractions or anything.

I am a disciplined person. When I am writing, I write for 7-8 hours.

The actual work of recording a record or making a film just requires that you consciously block the time out to do that and nothing else. That's what I do.

My goal, with whatever I'm working on, is to lose track of time.

The time that I devote to painting is not a lot of time, but I do it 100 percent while I am working, and then there's nothing else that counts.

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.

If something's important to you, you make time for it.

If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.

The world went by, and we didn't get caught up in all the other things, because we didn't have time. We had no spare time. It was always thinking about training and focusing on what we wanted, our goals.

You can always find time to do the thing you really, really want to do.

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.

I'm spending all my time and energy on the project at hand.

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.

Gather in your resources, rally all your faculties, marshal all your energies, focus all your capacities upon mastery of at least one field of endeavor.

Between speeches and awards, you can find something to do every other week. It's hard to write. Your focus gets splintered. Once you put one thing in your calendar, that month is gone.

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.