Mark Lanegan Quotes

The habit I've developed is to write in any free half hour I might find.

I'm mature enough to understand I can find time to do other things without disturbing my focus for basketball.

I just have to be very, very organised.

I just think there are enough hours in the day. If you just focus and dedicate yourself and approach each task as it presents itself, you can accomplish a lot.

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.

When I was bringing up a child, I taught myself to write in very short, concentrated bursts. If I had a weekend, or a week, I'd do unbelievable amounts of work.

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.

Also, I need deadlines, just like everybody else, especially coming from magazines, newspapers, and stuff like that. I need daily or weekly deadlines to get stuff done, or I continue to do things and not go off on a year of unproductivity.

I keep a great organiser, I try to keep my priorities in the right place.

One of the nice things about being busy is it makes you focus on what's important to you and how you use your time.

I have certain rules that I've established for myself that took a while post-day job to figure out. Everyone says people who freelance or are writers struggle with the structure of it. I'm not allowed to check email before a certain hour. I'm not allowed to run errands during the day. I have to write a certain amount every day.

Time management is the mantra of my life.

You really need to have that discipline. It's not even discipline. I just put down these rules. It's not like a vague, 'Motivate yourself!' and do something. It's specific hours set aside every day for certain things.

At one time, late Yash-ji, too, wanted to do two to three films, but somehow, I am not the kind to do too many things at the same time. I like to take it slow and steady.

A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.

There is time enough for everything, in the course of the day, if you do but one thing at once; but there is not time enough in the year, if you will do two things at a time.

I'm a time person. It's the one discipline I manage.

I have found that if I spend the first hour of my day at home, I get more done, and less people steal my time.

I pay attention to every minute of the day.

Time management is really important.

I can't even carpe 15 minutes in a row. So a whole diem is out of the question.

I don't consider myself a great multitasker, so I try to do one thing at a time, even though there were opportunities when I was wrestling.

I like to be organized, I like to stick to my schedule. That's how I stay focused.

If you don't create structure, your time will get eaten up pretty quickly. And the alternative is harsher than you think, because the world will suck it up.

You've just got to focus on what you have to do.