Chris Bohjalian Quotes

I'm terrible with my workout regime and following it strictly. I'm terrible with a healthy diet and following it strictly. I'm terrible on the weekends about getting up at reasonable hours and all of those things. But, when it comes to my work and the discipline it takes to get to work on time - I hate unprofessionalism.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.

Self-discipline is an act of cultivation. It require you to connect today's actions to tomorrow's results. There's a season for sowing a season for reaping. Self-discipline helps you know which is which.

I like to work for four or five hours a day. I aim for seven days a week.

I'm not a particularly disciplined person in terms of my work habits.

I love a daily deadline.

I always worked until I had something done and I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next. That way I could be sure of going on the next day.

I have a very strict regimen of showing up at my desk at a certain hour with my cup of green tea. It is very quiet. I don't like having a lot of atmosphere around.

Having deadlines helps because people are constantly breathing down my neck, and tapping their toes waiting for pages. So I just have to work nine to five. If I didn't have deadlines then I might be more of a golden hour kind of guy, writing from eight to noon and calling it a day, but that's just not the way I work right now.

I knew I could control one thing, and that is my time and my hours and my effort and my efficiency.

He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.

Once you get into the habit of work, you can be more productive in the things you want to do.

The habits of study in which I have been brought up have done much to support me. I never allow myself to be one moment unoccupied.

I'm at my desk before nine, and I go all day. I'm not necessarily productive all day, but really, who is?

My goal is two pages a day, five days a week. I never want to write, but I'm always glad that I have done it. After I write, I go to work at the bookstore.

If there's a deadline, I work late. If not, I like to have normal hours, and get up early and work. When things are going well, I hate to quit. And then I'll work 'till exhausted.

I can do a book in three months if I spend all day, seven days a week at it and, in fact, I work better that way.

If I didn't have my little schedule book, I wouldn't get out of bed in the morning.

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.

Time management is the mantra of my life.

I procrastinate in spades. In my defence, I also try to have all other distractions solved before I can concentrate on writing. My small theory is that to write for three hours, you need to feel like you have three days. To write for three days, you need to feel like you've got three weeks, and so on.

You really need to have that discipline. It's not even discipline. I just put down these rules. It's not like a vague, 'Motivate yourself!' and do something. It's specific hours set aside every day for certain things.

I discovered that the best thing for me was to be very busy all the time. I can get a lot done, and I can do those tasks well.

When it is time to get to work, I go away completely and don't do anything except the work. And that can be 16 hours a day.