Beatrice Webb Quotes

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.

Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.

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.

I just take on what I can commit to completely at that point in time, and that way you'll be able to give your best.

I always got my work done before playing.

I start getting bored and misbehaving if I don't work hard. It's fine when you're younger - you go out a lot and muck around with your mates and drink and stuff - but I'm a bit over that now.

Self-discipline is a great time-saver; it is the ability to make yourself work on only those things that are most important to you.

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!

I hear people say they're going to write. I ask, when? They give me vague statements. Indefinite plans get dubious results. When we're concrete about our writing time, it alleviates that thin constant feeling of anxiety that writers have - we're barbecuing hot dogs, riding a bike, sailing out in the bay, shopping for shoes, even helping a sick friend, but somewhere nervously at the periphery of our perception we know we belong somewhere else - at our desk!

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

There will be many times in your lives--- at school, and more particularly when you are a grown up---when people will distract or divert you from what needs to be done. You may even welcome the distraction. But if you use it as an excuse for not doing what you suppose to do, you can blame no one but yourself. If you truly wish to accomplish something, you should allow nothing to stop you, and chances are you'll succeed.

I'm in lockdown mode as far as what I want to accomplish. I don't let anything else get in my way.

I just think there are enough hours in the day. If you just focus and dedicate yourself and approach each task as it presents itself, you can accomplish a lot.

You have to establish in your life some sense of prioritizing things, of giving emphasis to the important things and of laying aside the unimportant things that will lead to nothing.

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.

Too many athletes don't have the ability to set a goal and then carefully go towards it.

He hath no leisure who useth it not.

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

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

My greatest asset now is my focus.

I think it takes a lot of desire because I think a lot of people who've never written books don't know quite how hard it is to stick with, to put in the amount of time and just make the commitment to just sit there every day and do it while everybody else is out having fun.

There'll come a writing phase where you have to defend the time, unplug the phone and put in the hours to get it done.

The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything.

Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.