Antony Johnston Quotes

When I was a postdoc, I jotted every fresh thought on a three-by-five card and kept them in a card catalogue.

Part of executive functions is the ability to look to a goal deadline and assess where an organization is in meeting it.

The best way to handle responsibility is to break it down into smaller parts. Take care of one small thing at a time.

I'm usually two projects ahead. It's hard for me because I don't have a really long attention span.

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

The first thing you have to do is get immersed in the project, organizing yourself, knowing what you are going after and not going after.

Generally, my notes and outlines comprise more words than my novels. I suppose that's one reason I'm a comparatively slow writer, something that has always bothered me given the fact that other authors can turn out a book every six months while I usually take about two years.

You're actually making the rest of your day productive by spending 30 minutes reviewing your to-do's, prioritizing them, and ruthlessly removing things that shouldn't be there.

Either I need an assignment with a strict deadline - like something for a movie or a TV show or whatever - or else I need to create a made-up deadline for myself for my own records. Otherwise, I don't write anything.

Law Number XXXIX: Never promise to complete any project within six months of the end of the year, in either direction.

I think that since I've had the baby, who's almost two, it's a work-hard-play-hard. Imake a lot of lists, I'm very scheduled, which is hard sometimes, but it keeps me organized - I know Now I can play or Now I've got to work.

I always like to plan ahead of time and follow up.

Organizing ahead of time makes the work more enjoyable.

Plan your work and work your plan.

I like to organize. I have an opinion. I like to get stuff done.

You need to have proper management if you're going to move forward.

Anything that isn't writing is easy

I'm up to my hairline in planning. It's a lot, especially when you're a woman of detail.

More software projects have gone awry for lack of calendar time than for all other causes combined.

The checklist is one of the most high powered productivity tool ever discovered.

You must plan your work and then work your plan.

I have a hard time with scheduling, and with hunkering down and planning. That's always been a struggle for me.

People who know me well have learned to insist that I commit to obligations by opening my laptop and putting them onto the appropriate calendar or list - a verbal agreement and a promise to remember won't work.

You try to break it down to weeks at a time otherwise you sort of make yourself crazy spinning out going from one....you just can't get your head around one of them fully. So I'm more task oriented. I like to sort of like focus on one thing for a couple of weeks...and also they're all in different stages of development.

I put things down on sheets of paper and stuff them in my pockets. When I have enough, I have a book.