Patrick Whitesell Quotes

I have an assistant who's very good at email, so I don't struggle with it.

You know, when you're a producer, you're a bit of a lackey. You're just making cups of tea and making sure they've got newspaper, stuff like that.

If I need something, even a pair of socks, my assistant has to get them for me.

I've been an assistant for a number of years.

Pretty much everyone's career starts the same way: with grunt work. Not just the cliched fetching of coffee, but other lowly tasks: taking notes in meetings, preparing paperwork, scheduling, intensive research - even flat-out doing our bosses' work for them.

People tell me I need an assistant, but I don't want one.

Here at the house, I've been decorating it and getting it organized. My best friend moved in in October so I've been getting her settled. She's my personal assistant now.

I was an assistant once. I worked for Rob Reiner and his family. I did sign a confidentiality agreement, though.

I have an assistant in Vancouver to help me with my life.

It's hard to be a clubhouse guy without being a great guy. I mean, the nature of the job is, you know, you're picking up dirty clothes and you're doing all the tasks that the players - that nobody else wants to do.

I can live without a computer. My assistant checks my e-mails.

I've done everything from research to stuffing envelopes.

I don't know what my assistant would do besides get me pot.

Nick, fetch my car, fetch my clothes, sweep the chimney, make my bed, watch my psychopath, fetch my slippers.

If you're co-founder or CEO, you have to do all kinds of tasks you might not want to do. If you don't do your chores, the company won't succeed. No task is too menial.

I went to drama school but it was very hard to get work until I was made assistant stage manager.

If you spend more than 13 minutes analyzing economic and market forecasts, you've wasted 10 minutes

Three hours of writing require twenty hours of preparation. Luckily I have learned to dream about the work, which saves me some working time.

Never do yourself, what you can con professionals into doing for you.

I stay balanced by remembering to prioritize. What is most important should never be railroaded by the "tyranny of the urgent."

My thinking is first and last and always for the sake of my doing, and I can only do one thing at a time.

All that Hubert needs over there is a gal to answer the phone and a pencil with an eraser on it.

I'm a big list maker. But if I cross off too many tasks and it's hard to see the remaining ones, I have to start a new list.

Don't imagine that, if you had a great deal of time, you would spend more of it in prayer. Get rid of that idea; it is no hindrance to prayer to spend your time well.

I had a Saturday job in a chemist. The pay was something ridiculous like £2 an hour - it was slave labour - and I spent all day cleaning shelves. On my first day an actress from Eldorado, which was on telly at the time, came in and said, 'Can I have some Replense please?' I didn't know what it was, so I had to ask her and she had to say, 'It's vaginal moisturiser,' in front of a massive queue of people. After one day I was like, 'I don't want to do this job any more, it's just boring.'