Rhiannon Giddens Quotes

I'm a huge planner, more and more so as the years go by.

I spend a lot of time preparing. I think a lot about what I want to do. I have prep books, little notebooks in which I write everything down before a sitting. Otherwise I would forget my ideas.

The night before, go over your schedule and see what you're going to do and what the purpose of what you're doing is. I advocate having a two-column schedule. On the left, put down all your appointments and phone calls. On the right, put down what the purpose is.

My mother taught me that it is important to be prepared for a last-minute polish.

It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.

Prior to 2015, I had kind of approached every year like, 'Let's hope for the best.' I always made these year-end videos with 100 things I did, and it would kind of build itself up throughout the year. When this year started, it was like I knew the 100 things before I even got to do them.

The majority of my work is about preparation.

I'm a great believer in outlines.

I like to plan. I like to see the future.

I tend to over-prepare my shot lists.

I still have this habit, I guess, continued from college, where I procrastinate up until the last moment.

I like finding things out beforehand, because I'm nervous in disposition, and I worry that if I don't do anything, then I'll turn up and I still won't really have a sense of it, and it might be too late. So I like to get things as organized as I possibly can in my own head, to apply myself to the work before arriving to a late-in-the-day rehearsal, or in extreme cases, the first day on set.

Don't start the day until you have it finished. Don't start the week until you have it finished. Don't start the month until you have it finished. Plan your day.

It's better to be prepared than to get ready.

Every show is unique, some shows have the master plan and have everything figured out and that's just the way they do things. It's like high school. Some people write their papers the second they get their assignments, and some people write it the day after it's due. I am the latter.

I like to know where I'm going to be at seven o'clock.

The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand.

No, my entire life is planned. It's called time management.

I've got lots and lots planned out, and other ideas knocking around in my head, too. I'm kind of an obsessive pre-planner, so I have a lot of material.

I'm obsessed with making lists.

Dig your well before you're thirsty.

I can't even plan tomorrow.

Also, I'm always learning better and better how to prioritize and how to leave certain things for the next day.

I constantly make lists and itineraries and then can't stick to any of them.

It's always been my formula to get the next picture set up before anyone's seen the last one.