Overwhelming Tasks Quotes

I get very unsettled by the mess of Christmas. I find the decorations a little bit hard, as my desire for everything to match is never fully satisfied.

So much paperwork to read! So much paperwork to push away! So much paperwork to pretend he hadn't received and that might have been eaten by gargoyles.

In all the years that I've been doing this, I've never launched a tour and launched an album at basically the same time. Doing one of those things is enough!

People ask me what I do in my spare time, and I look at them blankly, truly believing that I don't even have spare time, and if I did, I'd probably use it for something mundane, like chipping away at the mound of laundry rising to dangerous proportions in the back room.

Okay. Look, why don't you take care of the half a million things you've been letting dangle in Roarke's Empire of Everything?" "Catchy title. I may use it one day.

There's a tendency in this Hollywood machinery to take on too much. You end up not being able to give everything you want.

When you live in New York City, you run up a long list of things you've been meaning to do.

We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.

Success is never getting to the bottom of your to-do list.

The psychic entropy peculiar to the human condition involves seeing more to do than one can actually accomplish and feeling able to accomplish more than what conditions allow.

I haven't seen most of what I've done. I can't even list them. Most television jobs. I haven't seen a lot.

There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start.

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

A 'harmonized' life these days sounds like a tall order. Between housework, homework, workwork, and busywork, there are perpetually too many things to do, and not enough time to find that mythical balance. Nothing is more frustrating than feeling like you're doing doing doing but getting nothing truly done that you really want.

So many things to see, people to do.

There are never enough hours in the day.

You have a lot of things to do when you're out on a space walk, and that sort of overwhelms your mind.

Most of us are called on to perform tasks far beyond what we can do. Our capabilities seldom match our aspirations, and we are often woefully unprepared. To this extent, we are all Assistant Pig-Keepers at heart.

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

On the other hand, you get other films that are spread over a much longer period of time and it's entirely exhausting. But there's always light at the end of the tunnel with a film.

I get thousands of emails. Half my work is environment-related; the rest is pharmaceutical problems. There's so much of it. No one law firm can handle it now.

I'm just getting settled as a responsible man - but if you split the elephant into little mouthfuls it will be fine.

It was my husband who had to open all the baby shower gifts which were haunting me in their candy-colored gift wrap - thank you notes demanding to be written.

I don't dislike the process of animation... I find it daunting, but only as much as I find everything daunting.

I can't actually think of a job where I was relaxed the whole time. I don't think I would want to do that job. When I break into a cold sweat when I'm reading, I think, 'Oh good. That's what's supposed to be happening.'