Tim Matheson Quotes

If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.

I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.

Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.

Be a doer, not a stewer.

A journalist also needs to be disciplined, and so do I. I am, essentially, lazy. Without discipline I'd be just a mass of gummy bears on the sofa instead of on book tour with my eighth novel.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

You can have fun, but when it is time to work, work hard and be focused.

I can handle a lot of work. I've always been able to. I'm a very focused individual. I come to my studio at about 7:30 in the morning and exit almost 5:00 P.M. In that time, those eight or nine hours, it's kind of laser focus on whatever I'm working on. There aren't really any distractions or anything.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

Amateurs wait for inspiration. The real pros get up and go to work.

When I'm working, I'm not so much disciplined as obsessive. I have this feeling that I need to clear everything away and get this down.

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

I'm barely prolific and incredibly lazy.

I don't think I've had to change anything, really, apart from being more serious and focussed on my drive. One thing I've realised is that you get out what you put in and because of that my work rate has increased ten fold.

Sitting around and waiting for your muse is not the best choice.

I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.

I prefer doing things rather than sitting around talking about doing things.

Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don't believe too much into inspiration, only I'm waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It's a little too easy to say that.

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

Beethoven, Wagner, Bach, and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration.

I just always wanted to stay busy.

I'm the type of person that rises to the occasion, and when work is in front of me, I do work.

Go to work every day, be the first one in and the last one to leave, and you'll know that you've done everything in your power to make your life better.

My leadership mentality is to outwork everybody else around me, and hopefully the guys respond well to that and work harder for themselves.