Daphne Guinness Quotes

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

I know what it takes to get to the top.

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

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.

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

I just have work to do; I just do it.

I find myself more and more behind these days. You have to be really diligent. I don't have kids, which helps. I'm always working on something, whether a book, or a law review article that no one will ever read, or teaching. It pretty much means I work a lot, but it's all stuff I love.

The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.

Confidence comes from discipline and training.

Discipline is doing what you really don't want to do so you can do what you really want to do.

I always put my boxing first.

When the time comes to work, I work.

The most important thing about skating is that it teaches you to do the things you should do before you do the things you want to do.

I have a rigid self-accountability. You have to work hard.

Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.

I don't do too much outside of football during football season, because this is my job and I take it seriously. I don't do too much, don't really go out at all that much, don't eat out or anything, try to stay focused and stay to myself.

I was always really strict on myself about doing everything possible to prepare for competition.

One of the great lessons I've learned in athletics is that you've got to discipline your life. No matter how good you may be, you've got to be willing to cut out of your life those things that keep you from going to the top.

You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price.

To achieve some depth in your field requires a lot of sacrifices. Want to or not, you're thinking about what you're doing in life-in my case, dancing.

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 are great disciplines from being a sportsman that you can transfer into being an artist. The preparation, the sacrifice, the constant desire to improve.

To get where you want to go you can't only do what you like.

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've been curious about certain things, but didn't let them get in the way of my life. I don't know how people becoem successful with some kind of habit.