David Attenborough Quotes

I get up at 4:30 in the morning, seven days a week, no matter where I am in the world.

I wake up at 5 a.m. every day and go to bed early.

I'm on time even when I try not to be.

I like to go to bed early so I can get up early.

I don't go to bed at 1 A.M. and wake up at 5 A.M. and say, 'Let's see if I can get this done today.'

Friends say, 'Shall we go out to dinner at 8?' I say, 'I can't, I'm a 10 A.M.-till-6:30 P.M. kind of guy.' I keep that very regular, no matter what.

We go to bed at 8 o'clock at night, even on the weekend, just because that's our schedule.

Even if I go to sleep late I'm still going to wake up early.

I am very punctual about time, eating, and work.

Go to bed early, get up early-this is wise.

I wake up very early every morning and I have my coffee at 6:30. If it comes at 6:35, I'm very upset. I don't say anything but I'm upset because I'm so punctual in doing things, that if I lose five minutes I have to rush everything.

Insomnia never comes to a man who has to get up exactly at six o'clock. Insomnia troubles only those who can sleep any time.

The game must have been past my bed-time.

Would a minute have mattered? No, probably not, although his young son appeared to have a very accurate internal clock. Possibly even 2 minutes would be okay. Three minutes, even. You could go to five minutes, perhaps. But that was just it. If you could go for five minutes, then you'd go to ten, then half an hour, a couple of hours...and not see your son all evening. So that was that. Six o'clock, prompt. Every day. Read to young Sam. No excuses. He'd promised himself that. No excuses. No excuses at all. Once you had a good excuse, you opened the door to bad excuses.

All those who have played with me are aware that I am very strict when it comes to discipline and punctuality.

My mother was a professor and she would wake me up at 5:30 every morning. I've had that routine since I was a child. So it's not tough to wake up and face the camera at any time now.

Staying consistent with positive habits can be a challenge.

I usually wake up really early because I keep myself on East Coast time.

I think that is one thing I've picked up: follow a routine, be consistent, and everything is going to fall in place. If you are scrambling around, and you are late for stuff, that adds extra stress, and you have to go out there and hit a 97 mph fastball.

Regularity is a key: going to bed at the same time, waking up at the same time no matter what. But I think, also, it's not just about quantity - that's what we've been discovering. It's also about quality.

I get up early and go to bed early.

I just write when the bell rings. I don't have time to wait for inspiration.

I'm in bed by nine. Let's get on with it.

To go to bed after midnight is to go to bed betimes

To say a prayer doesn't take more than a minute, but you need the discipline to do it.