Chunking Quotes

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

In fact, Western culture has spent decades drawing lines and boxes around interconnected phenomena. We've chunked the world into pieces rather than explored its webby nature.

Problems often look overwhelming at first. The secret is to break problems into small, manageable chunks. If you deal with those, you're done before you know it.

I try and live my life in bite-size chunks.

Whatever you're working on, take small bites. The task will not be overwhelming if you can reduce it to its smallest component.

You can trick yourself into doing things by doing it one step at a time and never letting yourself see the overall picture.

You can't write a novel all at once, any more than you can swallow a whale in one gulp. You do have to break it up into smaller chunks. But those smaller chunks aren't good old familiar short stories. Novels aren't built out of short stories. They are built out of scenes.

The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as long swallows.

[...] the awesome splendor of the universe is much easier to deal with if you think of it as a series of small chunks.

Divide your movements into easy-to-do sections. If you fail, divide again.

If you procrastinate when faced with a big difficult problem... break the problem into parts, and handle one part at a time.