Alison Bechdel Quotes

He that rises late must trot all day.

A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.

I often set two alarm clocks because I'm afraid the first one won't actually make me get up.

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

Trust me: I do hit the snooze button about 4 times.

I am always running late for absolutely everything; my hair's the last thing I do because I am terrible at it.

Roosevelt could always keep ahead with his work, but I cannot do it, and I know it is a grievous fault, but it is too late to remedy it. The country must take me as it found me. Wasn't it your mother who had a servant girl who said it was no use for her to try to hurry, that she was a "Sunday chil" and no "Sunday chil" could hurry? I don't think I am a Sunday child, but I ought to have been; then I would have had an excuse for always being late.

He that riseth late, must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night.

I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.

I'm out of bed before the alarm goes off.

I'm at the gym at 6, so I'm usually in my office by 7:15. And I try to not schedule a lot of meetings before 8. So I've got that first hour to get myself organized for the day and to make sure that I've structured what I want to do.

For me, writing is 75 percent procrastinating and 25 percent actually sitting down and working.

One, I push my deadlines closer than anybody else, or let's say it this way: I'm really late.

I often work by avoidance.

I'm terrible in the mornings, but I'm always at my desk by 10 A.M.

I'm usually up at 6 A.M., even on the weekend.

Generally I get up at around 7. But oftentimes, I'll be lolling in bed a little bit earlier - sometimes as early as 5:45 - filing in my mind all the things I have to get done. Which is, of course, totally unproductive.

I'm at my desk for about 9:30 A.M., and I stay there all day. Then there's a lot of checking Facebook and eBay and that sort of thing.

I usually get up between 5:30 and 6. The good news in Bentonville, Arkansas, is I can be in the office seven minutes later. I like to get in, work on e-mails and catch up.

I don't have a good work ethic. I have a real casual relationship with hours.

I learned not to confuse 'busy' with 'productive,' but I'm still far too addicted to email to resist its early-morning digital snuggles.

I always wake up 10 minutes before I have to be anywhere.

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 extremely early in the morning.

You know Washington. If the deadline is midnight, they'll start working on it at 11:30.