Keith Sweat Quotes

I would not be happy unless I had some regular work to do every day and I imagine that I will always feel that way no matter how old I am.

I've always lived in the same way.

The way we do one thing is the way we do everything.

Sometimes I apologize. It started that way and we never did change it.

habit is our idea of eternity.

From the age of 14 until I was 50, I just got on a treadmill and ran. I never stopped to assess what I was doing or to pat myself on the back.

Discipline is consistency of action.

No problem. You are not crazier than you were yesterday. It has always been this way, and you just never noticed.

Good or bad, habits always deliver results.

Once one habit peels away the others follow it. You have to hold on, or the next thing you'll find yourself parading down the street in your nightdress. Habit is everything.

To make anything a habit, do it; to not make it a habit, do not do it; to unmake a habit, do something else in place of it.

It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives. It's what we do consistently.

I am actually very well-organized. All I need to do is open my closet and just choose. But, you see, although I carry many different choices with me, I always end up wearing a tank top, jeans and sneakers.

To succeed, find the right rut and stay with it.

Habits eat good intentions for breakfast.

Never let anyone define what you are capable of by using parameters that don't apply to you. Inspiration is for amateurs, the rest of us just show up and get to work. Every great idea I've ever had grew out of work itself. Sign onto a process and see where it takes you. You don't have to invent the wheel everyday. Today you will do what you did yesterday, tomorrow you will do what you did today. Eventually, you will get somewhere.

If you don't change your schedule, you'll be the same person you've always been.

It's dogged as does it. It ain't thinking about it.

Forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable.

Your habits determine your outcomes.

We are, all of us, creatures of habit, and when the seeeming necessity for schooling ourselves in new ways ceases to exist, we fall naturally and easily into the manner and customs which long usage has implanted ineradicably within us.

If I waited to be in the mood to write, I'd barely have a chapbook of material to my name. Who would ever be in the mood to write? Do marathon runners get in the mood to run? Do teachers wake up with the urge to lecture? I don't know, but I doubt it. My guess is that it's the very act that is generative. The doing of the thing that makes possible the desire for it.

I always love it best when you have a project where there is this commingling of the subject matter and the way in which you're recording that subject matter.

You can't get good at anything unless you do it day in and day out, over and over.

When I know something I like, I just want to replicate it.