Sloane Crosley Quotes

How do you get up in the morning? Another wasted life it's so boring The system never failed you You failed yourself and all of your friends Now your heart is failing too A total system failure they pronounce you

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

When you get up in the morning, set your motivations.

I had to get up everyday with my mind set on improving something.

I've had to learn and discipline myself that I'm much happier and much less depressed if I give myself a project. It's just that simple.

Comparison is a disease. I never felt any competition, since I never compared myself to others. I only focus on my work. I never feel pressurised and do films in my style. Also, I'm very active since childhood, and that gives me the edge to always put my best.

I happen to be pretty productive when I am in jail. When you are in jail, you have to spend more time with yourself.

I had one of my best years in 1991; I was 31. I made a renewed effort to work harder. I got better at my diet. I paid attention to how much sleep I got. I was always someone of routine. I became more strict.

I can't sit around doing nothing. If I'm not working, I have a habit of becoming rather insular.

I'm very ambitious, but I also love myself - which means I try to take care of myself.

From 1997 through 1999, I had gained so much. People don't realize how something like weight gain can make you sad. Losing weight has changed my life. If you can take control of your life, you can lose weight.

As long as your intentions are solid and about growth and progression and being productive and not being idle, then you're doing good in my book.

Are you the person who just wakes up, puts your T-shirt on and runs out of the house? Or do you wake up an hour early - get your mental notes together, fix you a little coffee... prepare yourself for the day and try to do something really great? It begins with you.

Learning essential stuff is as much a discipline as going to the gym or sticking to a diet, and an excellent antidote for the modern condition of being numb and dumb.

I just really work hard on myself every day.

I'm constantly trying to become the best. That's kind of how I'm driven. Sometimes I'm not. I kind of focus on when I'm not than when I am. That's probably something I need to switch.

Once I got my life sorted and started to get healthy, then I was able to focus on writing.

I don't let a day go where I'm not doing something that enhances me or allows me to sit up here and keep my spirits going.

If I sit in the same square room and work on something too long, I feel like you just go mad.

Don't worry about what you can't control. Our focus and energy needs to be on the things we CAN control. Attitude, effort, focus- these are the things we can control.

If an intelligent, educated, and healthy man begins to complain of his lot and go down-hill, there is nothing for him to do but to go on down until he reaches the bottom--there is no hope for him. Where could my salvation come from? How can I save myself? I cannot drink, because it makes my head ache. I never could write bad poetry. I cannot pray for strength and see anything lofty in the languor of my soul. Laziness is laziness and weakness weakness. I can find no other names for them. I am lost, I am lost; there is no doubt of that.

Sometimes we complain, but there is something beautiful about waking up before everyone to get better at what we love.

My goal is to write every day. I say it is my ideal. I am careful not to pass judgment or create anxiety if I do not do it. No one lives up to his ideal.

Don't let your alarm clock, be the only reason you wake up.

To get up in the morning & do the monumental tasks that face us, our labor is best fueled by love.