Judith Faulkner Quotes

I'm usually working on eight or 10 things at once.

My lab and academic work fill my day from about 9 am to 7 p.m. Then I zoom out the lens to work on my other writing.

I have a crazy amount of different jobs, so the way I manage that is to not do more than one at a time. It's like old computers that had small memory chips, they would do something called swapping, where they would fill the memory with one task, do it and get it out.

Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.

I always interrupt work with other work, either in a small way or big way, so that's normal.

If you try to multitask in the classic sense of doing two things at once, what you end up doing is quasi-tasking. It's like being with children. You have to give it your full attention for however much time you have, and then you have to give something else your full attention.

The challenging thing from a work perspective is just the range of things on any given day that you're dealing with and making sure you have the head space to really be giving them the thought and consideration you'd like, too.

Like many, I am often in back-to-back meetings most of the day.

I try not to schedule too many meetings. That's one of the things I learned in corporate America - that you can spend your days having meetings and never actually have time to work.

I can multitask very well. But I know exactly when to block off anything coming in from the outside and just stay focused on the film.

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.

We don't have any problem finding enough things to do; the problem we have is making sure we don't overload ourselves inadvertently.

If people would reflect that one can only do one thing at a time and therefore there is never more than one thing to do at a time, there would be less fatigue in the world.

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.

At home, I'm lucky if I can write three or four hours before the phone starts ringing and the kids want to go to soccer.

I just want to focus on one thing at a time.

You can't work on 15 problems at the same time.

The thing that would most improve my life is 27 hours in a day. I could meet all my deadlines.

Play more than one game at a time. This is a painless way to learn how to do many things at once.

I usually sit down at 8 A.M. and work through to 7 P.M., with breaks that total no more than an hour and a half.

I take mentoring very seriously and as a result I hardly get any work done during the school year.

As all entrepreneurs know, you live and die by your ability to prioritize. You must focus on the most important, mission-critical tasks each day and night, and then share, delegate, delay or skip the rest.

I try to compartmentalize as much as possible, and I have the most amazing team in the world. They really set up my time in a way that is completely efficient all the time.

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 actual work of recording a record or making a film just requires that you consciously block the time out to do that and nothing else. That's what I do.