Scott Westerfeld Quotes

To give the best of the day to your work is most important.

If you can focus the energy into something valuable, put that into work ethic.

I worked every night, and I'd go 25, 35, 45 minutes, and that is what made me, and that is that I knew how to work, and I knew how to work the people.

Discipline - Success doesn't just happen. You have to be intentional about it, and that takes discipline.

I work every day - or at least I force myself into office or room. I may get nothing done, but you don't earn bonuses without putting in time. Nothing may come for three months, but you don't earn the fourth without it.

Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing.

I have been very fortunate in worldly matters; many men have worked much harder, and not succeeded half so well; but I never could have done what I have done, without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one object at a time, no matter how quickly its successor should come upon its heels, which I then formed.

The only thing that could pull me away, was hard work.

Very few people know how to work. Inspiration, everybody has inspiration. That's just hot air.

When things are starting to work, you get up at five in the morning thinking, what are we going to do today? You stay up until one in the morning getting it done, and then you start the next day with the same energy, because it's working!

All successful individuals have become such by hard work; by improving moments before they pass into hours, and hours that other people may occupy in the pursuit of pleasure.

Discipline is the foundation upon which all success is built. Lack of discipline inevitably leads to failure.

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.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

I just have work to do; I just do it.

I always try to work hard and get things done as soon as possible, but never at the loss of quality of the product.

I don't take time off.

I always believe someone somewhere is working harder than me and that motivates me to work harder, give 100%.

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.

I have to be motivated, and I'm sure time will avail itself.

Work will take everything you give it. It's up to you to work out what you want to give it.

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.

I don't take off as many days as most other producers and songwriters, so I'm working every single day, and I do songs every day. So it's just about finding time, scheduling, getting in and cutting the records. I make it happen and that's the name of the game. It's no excuses - you gotta figure it out.

If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.