Donald Byrd Quotes

The only routine I have is that I finish everything I start. I wake up early every day - about 6.30 A.M. - but I do not work every day. I could laze for a day or two, but I wouldn't do it for three.

When I was in my 20s, I learned not only how to work hard but about the importance of focus.

I learned that focus is key. Not just in your running a company, but in your personal life as well.

I knew I could control one thing, and that is my time and my hours and my effort and my efficiency.

The habits of study in which I have been brought up have done much to support me. I never allow myself to be one moment unoccupied.

If there's a deadline, I work late. If not, I like to have normal hours, and get up early and work. When things are going well, I hate to quit. And then I'll work 'till exhausted.

I myself would like to become more disciplined within my work.

I don't really do indulgences. I'm more interested in discipline, goal setting, and performance.

If you develop just one muscle, one skill, make it the ability to focus and just get on with it. It will not only make you desirably employable, but it will make you happy.

My ability to concentrate and work toward that goal has been my greatest asset.

My point is, if you want to achieve anything in life, it is not enough to merely wish for it. You must develop that kind of 4:30 AM discipline that distinguishes you from others.

When it is time to get to work, I go away completely and don't do anything except the work. And that can be 16 hours a day.

You have to make sacrifices. You have to work out, to be relaxed in your mind, to focus on what you're doing.

Without pressure, I'm not going to wake up every day to go work, or do extra shooting, or lifting.

The people who work with me know how focused I am, and so I would advise people who are not concerned with me to rather focus on themselves instead of focusing on my focus.

The biggest challenge is to stay focused. It's to have the discipline when there are so many competing things.

For most of my 20s I felt the need to focus solely on my goals and let nothing distract me.

It takes a lot of hard work to stay committed and focus on what I wanted to achieve.

I'm so focused that sometimes I feel like I don't need to eat.

I gave up tennis to study, but not before it had shown me how to focus and concentrate. It taught me self-discipline: I was playing four or five hours a day and doing five-mile runs. When I stopped, my energy had to be channelled into something else.

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

If you don't have discipline, you don't have anything

There are so many distractions you can face as a woman, either with relationships or worrying about, Should I go to this party? or, Should I be doing this to help me get ahead? All [success] is, is doing your work and staying focused. It's boring advice, but boring good advice is what you can get from me!

The one human quality that must be developed is self discipline for success. The will power to force yourself to do what you know you should do when you should do it, whether you like it or not, whether you feel like it or not. Success is tons of discipline.

From the very start of my career, it was clear to me that achievement was built on discipline.