Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes

When I wrestled, I would set aside the time to wrestle, so that in my mind it didn't interfere with my study time. If I'd say, "I'm going to study this many hours, then I'm going to go work out and wrestle," then when that time comes, you don't feel like you should be doing something else. That helped me psychologically. But otherwise? When I'm wrestling, I'm not studying the universe. And when I'm studying the universe, I'm not wrestling.

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

The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything.

I'm mature enough to understand I can find time to do other things without disturbing my focus for basketball.

When you work, work. When you play, play. Don't mix the two.

Have a time and place for everything, and do everything in its time and place, and you will not only accomplish more, but have far more leisure than those who are always hurrying.

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

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.

When it's time to focus in and play ball during the season, 100% of my focus is on that. When it's the offseason and I've got time to be away and I can do other interests - they don't conflict. I'm good at compartmentalizing. I can put everything in its appropriate box at the time and open it up when I need to at a later time.

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 suppose the more you have to do, the more you learn to organize and concentrate-or else get fragmented into bits. I have learned to use my 'ten minutes'. I once thought it was not worth sitting down for a time as short as that; now I know differently and, if I have ten minutes, I use them, even if they bring only two lines, and it keeps the book alive.

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 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.

The habits of study in which I have been brought up have done much to support me. I never allow myself to be one moment unoccupied.

Naturally, business and pleasure can be readily combined, but a certain balance should exist, and the latter should not predominate over the former.

We live as though there aren't enough hours in the day, but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress.

Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.

Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.

Well-arranged time is the surest mark of a well-arranged mind.

I always got my work done before playing.

The secret to multitasking is that it isn't actually multitasking. It's just extreme focus and organization.

My dad had me in Taekwondo when I was a kid, but I didn't retain much of that.

There is time enough for everything, in the course of the day, if you do but one thing at once; but there is not time enough in the year, if you will do two things at a time.

I may be on set acting, I may be in the studio recording, I might be teaching dance class all in the same day - so how can I manage all of those needs, prepare for all of those things, and still grow and train in all of them? The best you can do is, when you're focusing on one, be there and be present.

The one thing about me is that I keep my personal life away from my sporting life. And, when I am training for a fight, that is my focus.