Junot Diaz Quotes

There's nothing wrong with procrastination. Or is there? I'll leave it to you to decide, but only if you have the time.

If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.

I get up at 4:30 in the morning, seven days a week, no matter where I am in the world.

I like to get up and get out. Otherwise you end up kicking about, and it's easy to flick the telly on; then before you know it, it is 11 A.M. and you haven't done anything.

Every morning I tell myself, 'Today has to be productive' - and then something happens that prevents me from writing.

College is good discipline. That's what I learned there: pull an all-nighter, get it done, and get an A. I'm the biggest procrastinator, and I learned how to be an efficient procrastinator.

I'm a 6 AM guy. I get up at 6 AM every morning so I can knock out my email, phone calls and start the day.

When you find an unwillingness to rise early in the morning, make this short speech to yourself: I am getting up now to do the business of a man; and am I out of humour for going about that I was made for, and for the sake of which I was sent into the world? Was I then designed for nothing but to doze and keep warm beneath the counterpane? Well! but this is a comfortable way of living.

If only I could master that demon of procrastination that goes about like a roaring lion and devours all my good intentions, I should become the most punctual man in the world.

In the morning, when you are sluggish about getting up, let this thought be present: 'I am rising to a man's work.'

As the day goes on you get more and more tired. Even if people say they're afternoon people or evening people, it's always best to start out first thing in the morning with your most important task as opposed to your email, phone calls, or checking the internet. If you start out with that then basically you'll just do that all day long.

The busiest people I have known in my life always have time enough to do everything. Those who do nothing are always tired and pay no attention to the little amount of work they are required to do. They complain constantly that the day is too short. The truth is, they are afraid to fight the good fight.

You never put off until tomorrow or even this afternoon what you can do this morning. Attack the objective when your desire is strongest.

Stop complaining about having no time for yourself and get up an hour earlier. You have the option, why not exercise it?

Believe me, you have to get up early if you want to get out of bed.

The fundamental level of success is doing the hard things first - If you go for the feared thing first, then the rest of the day is easy.

That old saw about the early bird just proves that the worm should have stayed in bed.

I like to get to work early. Before my brain knows what I'm up to.

A man was desired to rise from bed because the sun was already up. He replied: "If I had as far to go and as much to do as he has, I should be up by now; but having but a little way to go, I shall not get up yet."

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Everything in life turns out to be a distraction from the real thing you want to do. There are a million distractions and when I was a kid I was very disciplined. I knew that the other kids weren't. I was the one able to do the thing, not because I had more talent, maybe less, but because they simply weren't applying themselves.

When you find an unwillingness to rise early in the morning, endeavor to rouse your faculties, and act up to your kind, and consider that you have to do the business of a man; and that action is both beneficial and the end of your being.

While I am on, I can discipline myself to that extent. When I am off, I can't discipline myself at all. On the other hand, when I am off, there are so many things I like doing, it doesn't really matter.

Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.

There are people who literally cannot start a project until the deadline is four hours away, even if it's a big one. And those people have a serious problem. My recommendation is set up mini-deadlines. You might say, 'Okay, here's my deadline after three days for this and there's another deadline for that and then a third deadline.'