Bill Plympton Quotes

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

Emily Gannett is tireless. I know this because I have traded emails with her at 2 A.M. only to later wake blearily to a chipper morning missive sent south of 6 A.M. before her morning run.

My day starts at 5 A.M. and gets over at 10:30 P.M. Its a long day but I love it... I can't sit idle.

I would love to be a sleeper, but I'm not. I'm usually up pretty early, even if I've been out the night before.

I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.

I go to work the minute I open my eyes.

If I want to get work done, that's usually about 3 in the morning.

Some days I would be there at ten in the morning and wouldn't leave till ten at night, and the others would waltz in for a couple of hours and then leave, because I was doing that painting thing. And they were happy to see that being done.

My father's whole life was work. He had a retail store in Ossining, New York, and I mean, he was down there at 6:15 every morning. The store didn't open until 9, but he hadda be down there. That's all he knew.

I'm not a morning person: I can't function until I've had a coffee - or several.

I've been very successful at selling my things, but I've also been getting up at 4 in the morning for 40 years.

At 14, I was the most disciplined guy around. I would get up at 5 o'clock in the morning and run five miles, and then go to school. Sometimes I would run behind the school bus, and the kids thought I was just crazy. I knew what I wanted.

I can't seem to shake waking up early.

I couldn't be luckier to wake up every morning and be so excited to get to work, even if it's five in the morning.

Even as a kid, I never liked breakfast. I just don't like to eat then. I like to get up and work. I think sticking a whole bunch of carbohydrates in your stomach in the morning is probably the worst way to begin the day.

Everything that is strong in me has gone into my art work.

Over the last four years, I've made a habit of coming into my office in the morning and just getting to work.

I get up every morning early, when the sky is red, and write for 10 hours.

I get started at 5:30 in the morning and write till 10 A.M. Then I hike six or seven miles before going back to work.

Believe me, if anybody has a job and starts at 9, there's no reason why they can't get up at 4:30 or five and write for a couple of hours, and give their employers their second-best effort of the day - which is what I did.

My work is more to me than just music.

Those who talk about the sacrifices that they make throughout a career, I do not understand too much. For me, the real sacrifice would be getting up early in the morning to work.

While growing up, I used to sleep at 8 P.M. and get up at 4 A.M. to study.

At the end of the day, I just do my job. I love my art.

Nobody knows the hard work that goes in the morning before I do anything.