C. S. Lewis Quotes

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

I have nothing like a writing routine. I sometimes have trouble buckling down to write at home.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

The hard part of writing at all is sitting your ass down in a chair and writing it. There's always something better to do, like I've got an interview, sharpening the pencils, trimming the roses. There's always something better to do. Going to a writer's club?

With learning lines, before I had Alfie, I'd put it off and think, 'Oh, I'll just have a glass of wine and then do it later,' but when you've finally got a child to bed and you know you've only got an hour, then you achieve so much.

Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.

If you dream of something worth doing and then simply go to work on it and don't think anything of personalities, or emotional conflicts, or of money, or of family distractions; it is amazing how quickly you get through those 5,000 steps.

After graduating college, I was coming out of a routine I'd been in for several years, all the way back to high school. It was a year-round process of constantly having to work and be disciplined, and I was able to understand and connect the dots between all those characteristics - especially hard work and success.

As long as you have discipline, you can be a success. Discipline is what makes you do everything you need to do.

My major regret in life is not going to university, though not for the qualification I would have gained. People I know who went there have a working method where they sit down and get something done; they know how to start and get on with things. I will do anything to avoid getting on with stuff.

If what needs to get done is going to get done, then I can't screw around with the luxury of writing rituals or waiting for pristine writing conditions to magically materialize.

You always have to get your head down, work hard and things fall into place.

I use discipline and focus as my greatest weapons.

Success isn't magic or hocus-pocus - it's simply learning how to focus.

If you don't have discipline, you don't have anything

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!

Set your goals high and go far. Don't put off tomorrow what you can do today.

Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.

You always think, 'Oh, if only I had a little chalet in the mountains! How great that would be and I'd do all this writing' Except, no, I wouldn't. I'd do the same amount of writing I do now and the rest of the time I'd go stir crazy. If you're waiting for the perfect moment you'll never write a thing because it will never arrive. I have no routine. I have no foolproof anything. There's nothing foolproof.

People who accomplish big things did small things well.

The most unbearable thing about many successful people is not - as we flatteringly think - how lazy they are, but how hard they work.

The bookends of success are starting and finishing. Decisions help us start; discipline helps us finish.

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.

No one ever achieved a goal by being interested in its achievement. One must be committed.

Successful people do all the things that unsuccessful people don't want to do.