E. B. White Quotes

I don't think I've been bored, ever. I've always been working on two or three things at a time; whether it was in the early days, or whatever, I was always working on something.

I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.

When you're home-schooled, you have to have a certain level of work ethic. Otherwise, you don't get anything done.

I myself would like to become more disciplined within my work.

I'm a very lazy person by nature. I have to be really engaged, and then I go straight from lazy to obsessive. I couldn't study chemistry, but I could memorize all the books for Dungeons and Dragons. It was ridiculous. The trick is to find what I like to do.

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.

I like to work and it kind of keeps me in line, which is very good because I need that structure.

At my ashram, people work long hours joyfully because they are inspired. When people are involved and joyfully doing something, they usually turn out ten times more and do more than what they would normally do as a duty.

The only competition I actually want is with my own self, and for me, work comes above all.

The biggest thing I take away from the Army is that work ethic and being able to focus and put your eyes on a goal.

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.

When you lack interest in the case the job will very likely lack skill and diligence in the performance.

I find that if I get up and push myself, I get lost in what I'm doing, and I forget about everything else until I stop doing it.

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

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. It is the first lesson that ought to be learned and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.

From the very start of my career, it was clear to me that achievement was built on discipline.

If you have work to do, don't wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.

Motivation gets you going, but discipline keeps you growing.

Doing something does not require discipline. It creates its own discipline - with a little help from caffeine.

The human being needs a challenge, and my advice to every person in Singapore and elsewhere: Keep yourself interested, have a challenge.

You cannot get tired if you're interested in what you do. That's the key thing.

If you sit and feel sorry for yourself, you're wasting your time. You should be in acting class, instead of feeling sorry for yourself. You should be working.

My enthusiasm seems to cause my world to endlessly offer me cooperative, co-creating experiences. I'm willing and I'm eager, and not just about my writing - I feel the same way about staying in shape, enjoying my family, giving a lecture, or whatever it may be.

I have ideas every day, and if I'm not carrying a pad of paper, I'm typing it into the notes thing on my iPhone, and it's just ridiculous - idle hands are the devil's plaything, and I can't be the devil's plaything. I got to be the devil; I got to be the guy making it all happen.