Jasmin Bhasin Quotes

There are moments when you feel that the desire to work is fading, and the only way to bring it back is to get away from it, to put yourself in a state of frustration so you feel the need again.

You need to take a little break sometimes. Then, hopefully, you get some more lead in your pencil, and you're raring to go again!

Sometimes it helps to take a couple days off, as weird as that sounds. Every once in a while, I could just shoot so many shots. You can get so, like, intense with it all. It's like in life, right? We're all created for a sabbath day or for a day of rest. You sometimes need that in shooting, too.

It helps me rejuvenate when I use my energy in different directions and then come back to acting.

Don't worry about breaks every 20 minutes ruining your focus on a task. Contrary to what I might have guessed, taking regular breaks from mental tasks actually improves your creativity and productivity. Skipping breaks, on the other hand, leads to stress and fatigue.

I have to take time occasionally to get away from the pressures of this business. If I don't, I think I would get stale, and that would show in my music.

A manuscript under way always gave me something to do; only while enduring the aimlessness between books was I truly glum.

Breaks are good because you need breaks to be more creative. It's hard to come up with that creativity and the stamina for that creativity, all the time.

I don't generally listen to music while working, but sometimes music can help me get past minor writer's block.

Just keep thinking about the good side of ADD - the creativity and the originality it can stimulate.

I get so many ideas for songs, but I'm so seldom disciplined enough to sit down and crank them out.

If I have one thing on in a week, I find it very difficult to get back to work that week. I need a lot of dreaming time.

I try to manage my day by my circadian rhythms because the creativity is such an elusive thing, and I could easily just stomp over it doing my administrative stuff.

After 'Memory Keeper's Daughter,' it took me a few months to shut out the world. I really had to turn off the Internet and sort of cloister myself away from the world again and sink into that psychic space to write again.

Twice a year, I take myself off to a self-imposed 'writer's retreat', staying at a small inn or on a friend's farm, where I am all alone and do nothing other than write.

You don't necessarily have to be in misery to be talented.

I usually write when I'm in a great place. When I'm depressed, I don't usually write. So I take all of when I'm depressed and throw it into when I'm feeling good. Weird, I guess.

When we clear the physical clutter from our lives, we literally make way for inspiration and 'good, orderly direction' to enter.

When you're working well, you don't do research. Whatever you need comes to you.

You don't have to work for Google, or any of the other firms encouraging staff to pursue personal projects on company time, to use slowness to unlock your creativity. Anyone can do it. Start by clearing space in your schedule for rest, daydreaming and serendipity. Take breaks away from your desk, especially when you get stuck on a problem.

You have to disengage at some point in order to be fresh.

I always have music playing in my studio when I design. It really gets me in the mood and allows me to focus.

I think it does Discworld good if I don't write about it all the time: sometimes you have to get it out of your system.

For a long time, I would write without music, because I thought it was distracting until I appreciated that it actually unlocks a certain unconscious productivity vault in my mind.

I like to stay busy, I like to stay focused, and I like to stay creative. Without being creative I'd be dead.