Tye Sheridan Quotes

I'm quite good at multitasking, but I have to do things immediately.

Do the jobs you like least first. It makes each successive job easier.

My job is to keep my eye on the ball and to stay focused on what can we get done every single day to advance the vision and values that brought me here.

I have to always make sure I don't stay in one place and spend too much time one subject. I have my wife tell me [through an earpiece], "Come back! You're taking too long on that subject." I need to be reeled in.

You do the things that need to be done according to priority.

At Starbucks 0 as in any business, in any life - there are so many hectic moments during the day when we are simply trying to do the job, trying to put out the fires, trying to solve any number of small problems, that we often lose sight of what it is we're really here to do.

I look for what needs to be done

You need to figure out what the 2 or 3 most important things are, and then just do those.

I need to solve the problem. It's no different from how am I going to get my son out the door when he needs to go to school. It's a bigger version of that same type of problem.

The essence of the best thinking in the area of time management (practice planning) can be captured in a single phrase: Organize and execute around priorities

I might want to do a hundred things in a given day, but I know I have to pick up my kids between 5 and 6. That is the most important thing. So I fit in everything else around that. I know what needs to be done, and then I know what I want to get done.

You don't need more time in your day. You need to decide.

I am a person who always feels like I am not doing the right thing because there's always so many things that need to get done.

The Things to do are: the things that need doing, that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done.

The living are more demanding; the dead can wait.

I have more important things to do anyway. I have a hangnail that needs my attention. (Dev)

I'll be very busy, which is all I need.

People with good work habits have to-do lists that are reasonably prioritized, and they make themselves do what needs to be done. By contrast, people with poor work habits almost randomly react to the stuff that comes at them, or they can't bring themselves to do the things they need to do but don't like to do (or are unable to do).

If someone gives me a to-do list, I say 'thank you, this is nice.' One needs things to throw in the wastebasket.

If you don't have time for the small things, you won't have time for the big things

A man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied; he must know how to disengage what is essential from the detail in which it is enwrapped, for everything cannot be equally considered; in a word, he must be able to simplify his duties, his business and his life.

Effectiveness is doing the things that get you closer to your goals. Efficiency is performing a given task (whether important or not) in the most economical manner possible. Being efficient without regard to effectiveness is the default mode of the universe.

You don't have to do everything; just do what really matters.

I'm a person who likes to give 100 percent to everything I do. I want to be the best at my job and as a mother.

I could do great things, if I weren't so busy doing little things.