Jamelia Quotes

These days, we have a million things to do and usually one day to do them in.

I have to paint at least two times a week, and there's not enough time in the day to do everything.

Unfortunately, I don't have much free time.

I don't have spare time.

There's always more demands than there's time to meet them, so it's constantly a matter of trying to balance them.

By the time I get done with my fans and my music and my kids and my family and my fiance and my horses, well, they suffer too, but, I don't really have much time left to do anything else.

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.

Balancing school, acting, and a social life can be difficult.

I practice at home, in between phone calls, and have much to do.

I'm a hockey coach and a single mother of two who commutes. I don't watch TV. I watch news, and that's it!

The world isn't fast-paced, it's frenetic. People have to be managers of themselves. Time has been managing itself for 15 billion years; we have to manage ourselves in the context of time.

Half of the time, I'm walking around a construction site, then I'm transitioning into the evening, having drinks with the girlfriends or meeting with my husband and then racing back home to put the kids to bed. I have less time, so I'm a much more efficient decision maker.

My problem is always the number of hours in a day, not the number of things I want to do.

I'm not interested in running around from one shoot to another.

I don't like to fill up my schedule. It's easy to do, but then that year arrives, and you find that you have no time, so you are desperately trying to cancel something. I have to think of my family.

In an average week I'll be testing recipes, doing a voice-over, filming and writing. I cram everything in Monday to Friday because I refuse to give up the weekend.

I'm never just on the couch. Being busy is part of who I am. But it's hard juggling my family, my husband, balancing that time.

Our to-do lists are so full that we can't hope to complete every item on them. So what do we do? We multitask, juggling several things at once, trying to keep up by keeping busy.

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

I don't think I can plate-spin, I've turned loads of things down because I just can't get the time to do it.

I think there's always great tension because there never seems to be enough - there is always pressure. There's always pressure because there isn't enough time. There's never enough time for a movie, it seems to me. Never.

The big problem is time. I don't have enough of it to do all the things I think about doing.

Balancing my film career and my music will be something I'm just going to have to deal with, as it happens. I think I can balance it out; the choices will probably be pretty clear. If there's a movie I just have to do, I will work the music around it.

We are all trying to balance our careers and children and give as much of ourselves and our time to them. You work and have a husband, and projects, and friends. It is a balancing act.

The secret to modern life is finding the measure in time management. I have two kids, career and I travel, and I don't think my life is any different than most couples. The most valuable commodity now for many people is time and how to parcel that out.