Patrick Marber Quotes

For example, I tend to personally reward myself for specific acts of exceptional discipline.

All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.

If I write a page a day, I feel very good about it.

For me, I am really interested in how I can stretch myself to produce things. If, in the process, others take note and recognise that, then wonderful.

I think in terms of what I am able to accomplish and build.

I'm motivated by very small successes.

Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.

Who cares if somebody dances better? Doing my very best is rewarding internally.

Welcome every talent, hail every invention, cherish every gem of art—foster every gleam of authorship, honor every acquirement and every natural gift, lift ourselves to the level of our destinies...

I'm proud of my work, and I try my best.

If I can get a page out in a day, I am celebrating.

I love proving that I can do something.

You can go out and produce and make a name for yourself.

Only your work is your hands, and I focus on that.

I'm really proud of 'Kissing Strangers.'

All one's work might have been better done; but this is a sort of reflection a worker must put aside courageously if he doesn't mean every one of his conceptions to remain forever a private vision, an evanescent reverie.

All I know is that the six months when I recorded this music was the most productive time of my life, and I'll always remember it as the first time in my life that I ever felt like I was one with my dreams.

In order to be something, you must do something.

Putting a stamp on things just helps you say, 'Hey, yesterday I was there, and today I'm here.' It's another step forward, and it feels like another turning point and an unleashing of creativity, and now I'm going to start focusing on the show and the production, the fun stuff that comes with it.

A series of small but real accomplishments gives people the energy and confidence to continue. For instance, a person who wants to write a novel might resolve to write one sentence each day. Or a person who wants to start running might resolve to run for one minute.

The funny thing about making this record and being away from the girls and on my own in LA is that it allowed me to reflect on how much we've accomplished.

My first novel was a challenge to myself. No one had an inkling that I was working on it.

I think working hard at anything when you're young and getting positive results, it's always an incredible feeling to see that.

Work begets work.

If it can affect me, if it has meaning to me, if I feel I can do it well, I will do it and record it and thats why I recorded these songs.