Task Overload Quotes

If all I did was answer the correspondence I get, that would be my job.

I'm bloody awful at multi-tasking.

I'm constantly busy.

The best cure for procrastination is to have so much on your plate that procrastination is no longer an option.

I love having ten times as much stuff to do as I can possibly find time to do. That way, I can pick the one-tenth that I want to do most. But if I only have enough to just occupy all my time, I'm stuck doing all of whatever stuff it happens to be.

If you're overbooked, you can't manage pressing problems or even recognize they're pressing until too late.

Faced with a time shortage, we squeeze tasks into the nooks and crannies of our calendar, leaving less and less time to switch between them. As a result, we become less and less productive exactly when we need to be most productive.

One could do with a longer year - so much to do, so little done, alas.

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

Let's be honest; it's rather easy to be busy. We all can think up a list of tasks that will overwhelm our schedules. Some might even think that their self-worth depends on the length of their to-do list. They flood the open spaces in their time with lists of meetings and minutia - even during times of stress and fatigue.

There's a lot to do. There's a lot to do. More than I even thought.

I'm a happy human being when I'm overloaded with stuff to do, but I got stuff to do.

Sometimes it feels like there aren't enough hours in a day to get everything done.

When you multitask, you believe you're being exceptionally productive, but really, you're fooling yourself. Each time you switch tasks, you have to backtrack a little and remind yourself where you are in the process and what's next. Invariably. you are spending twice as much time on parts of the task.

When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.

I have so much to do! And there's so little time!

I crave deadlines. If I don't have a deadline, I become a total slacker, which is why I always have so much on my plate.

I know when I make a decision, I'm increasing my own personal work day.

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

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.

Once I'm on the phone, I just can't say no. I sometimes find myself doing things for three or four organizations in one day.

The joke of being a showrunner is that people ask how you get it all done, and you don't. The list of things I don't get done in a given day is longer than the list of things I do. And one of the things that's first to go is watching dailies.

The moments before I fall asleep are when my list of things to do attacks my brain.

We all have that long to-do list.

I've got so much I want to do, and not a lot of time to do it in. People say to me, "You really shouldn't do so many records", because it actually harms your career.