Nana Patekar Quotes

I only really work when I want to.

I write at home. I like to be able to take a nap, watch TV, make a sandwich, and if I wake up and don't feel like working, I'm not going to bang my head on my desk all day: I'll go out and do something else.

Freelancers are 'free' because they take risks - they don't like being told what to do. That's both exciting and daunting, because you have to police you.

I don't very much distinguish when I'm working. I do what I like to do: the time changes and my activity changes.

You can control what you put in your body, how you take care of yourself, how much you work. You have to control what you can.

Some people can work on the road, and that's incredibly impressive... maybe I'm not working myself hard enough.

I have to work at my own speed.

I took it as my personal responsibility to be able to juggle. I didn't want anybody to help me and I didn't expect my office to make it easy for me.

I can only control myself, my actions, my work ethic, and my attitude.

Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to them if they will not apply themselves to me.

Knowing that we can control our own behaviour makes it more likely that we will.

I like working on my birthday, so I always do.

I do give myself a break in my personal life but I think in work, if you don't push yourself you get bored and want to do something else.

The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn't go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him.

At the end of the day, I don't need to work, and I think it's good that I have the drive and willpower to get up and do something in the morning even though I don't need to.

A lot of people thought I wasn't doing anything because I was spending a lot of time socialising and going out, but I've always managed to get work actually done.

I have a rigid self-accountability. You have to work hard.

I try not to do anything I don't like, so I stay motivated pretty easily.

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

I felt that it was my duty not to senselessly waste my time. And since I didn't want to waste my time, I tried to accomplish as much as possible.

During that first year, I felt guilty that my wife was out working bringing in all our income, while I was at home playing on the computer, so I made myself treat writing like a job.

The only deadline is the one I give myself.

I am my own secretary; I dictate, I compose, I copy all myself.

Do everything yourself.