Cindy Sherman Quotes

I always prefer to work intensively on something and then move on to something else. I prefer not to get stuck in something that takes five or six years of my life.

Any time we have projects that we haven't begun or completed, they drain energy.

But I'm very happy to work within tight parameters, and when you know you have an actor for two days, and you have to get that work done in two days, that focuses the mind wonderfully.

Whenever the work is itself light, it becomes necessary, in order to economize time, to increase the velocity.

I quit comics because I got completely sick of it. I was drawing comics all the time and didn't have the time or energy to do anything else. That got to me in the end.

I take breaks now and then. But when I work, I get things done at a fast pace.

It's incredibly hard to get meaningful work done when your workday has been shredded into work moments.

The thing is to get the work done.

Here at work we're all just trying to get a job done. My people have the confidence of their convictions and they know their skills. And that occupies most of my time.

If you do things by the job, you are perpetually driven: the hours are scourges. If you work by the hour, you gently sail on the stream of Time, which is always bearing you on to the haven of Pay, whether you make any effort, or not.

I don't like having too many projects in the pipeline. I like to focus on what's at hand.

Conran's Law of Housework - it expands to fill the time available plus half an hour.

It's the task that's never started that's more tiresome.

Do not put off today's work until tomorrow, lest work accumulate and you achieve nothing.

If you want to get something done, give it to a busy man.

Deadlines have a lousy name. Call them live-lines instead. That´t what they are.

Sometimes they work, and sometimes they just won't. Sometimes you get hung up on them. When that happens, you just throw it back, and maybe come back to it two or three weeks later.

Research can become Resistance. We want to work, not prepare to work.

I always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn't want to do movies that much. I found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways.

Productivity is notoriously difficult to predict.

You'll sometimes hear from people that they actually do a better job of getting their work done when they have a lot of other obligations - in effect, it removes the possibility of procrastinating.

As so often happens, the thing left undone tires you most of all, you only feel rested when it has been accomplished.

I have succeeded in getting my actual work down to thirty minutes a day. That leaves me eighteen hours for engineering.

I try to do everything as soon as possible, and not at the last moment. This ensures that, when I am overburdened with work, I will not face the added pressure of knowing that something is still to be done.

I'm very efficient and the people who work with me always say that - they know when they have a day with me it's going to be really exhausting because I love to fit as much in as possible.