Dave Brubeck Quotes

I like to work for four or five hours a day. I aim for seven days a week.

Having deadlines helps because people are constantly breathing down my neck, and tapping their toes waiting for pages. So I just have to work nine to five. If I didn't have deadlines then I might be more of a golden hour kind of guy, writing from eight to noon and calling it a day, but that's just not the way I work right now.

The only routine I have is that I finish everything I start. I wake up early every day - about 6.30 A.M. - but I do not work every day. I could laze for a day or two, but I wouldn't do it for three.

Here in Seattle, I'm the most productive I've ever been. I don't allow myself personal distractions. I'm extremely disciplined here.

My point is, if you want to achieve anything in life, it is not enough to merely wish for it. You must develop that kind of 4:30 AM discipline that distinguishes you from others.

When it is time to get to work, I go away completely and don't do anything except the work. And that can be 16 hours a day.

Do the day's work.

I never take a day off.

I like to work hard and complete my films one after the other.

Every day I'm not working or writing is a wasted day to me.

I'm 32 this year so I'm experienced, I know how it is: sometimes you do very easy things and sometimes you can do crazy things that you don't understand. It's just to be focused on the hard work. For me, that's always the No 1 thing.

The bridge between wishing and accomplishing is discipline.

I do give myself a break in my personal life but I think in work, if you don't push yourself you get bored and want to do something else.

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.

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.

When the time comes to work, I work.

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

If I want to get work done, that's usually about 3 in the morning.

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

I think it's really important to keep on staying motivated.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

On a regular basis if you're trying to produce something, I think you should work every day and set achievable goals.

Once you get into the habit of work, you can be more productive in the things you want to do.

I had to create some good work habits and attitude.

I enjoy hard work; I love setting goals and achieving them.