Cass Sunstein Quotes

I'm a time person. It's the one discipline I manage.

I write on a very strict 2-hour-a-day schedule, and I really respond to structure and invented rules. So even if I'm finding out good information on a character, I will stop when I'm set to stop.

You can only train three or four hours a day, so what do you do with the other 20 hours?

When I do something, I do it for the specified amount of time, and then I do something else.

If you don't create structure, your time will get eaten up pretty quickly. And the alternative is harsher than you think, because the world will suck it up.

I make time to write.

I don't take off as many days as most other producers and songwriters, so I'm working every single day, and I do songs every day. So it's just about finding time, scheduling, getting in and cutting the records. I make it happen and that's the name of the game. It's no excuses - you gotta figure it out.

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.

Deadlines aren't bad. They help you organize your time. They help you set priorities. They make you get going when you might not feel like it.

I'm not always as disciplined as I should be. I don't sit down and write every day, but I should.

Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.

Also, I need deadlines, just like everybody else, especially coming from magazines, newspapers, and stuff like that. I need daily or weekly deadlines to get stuff done, or I continue to do things and not go off on a year of unproductivity.

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

I trained myself to be organized.

As a young boy, I read 'Cheaper by the Dozen' and immediately became neurotic about my use of time. It taxed me severely, but only for the next 50 years. But I think it also allowed me to discipline myself to sit in the chair and be a writer, where one of the most needed qualities is patience.

I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.

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

I'm a Virgo and I'm really good at scheduling. And I really make it work. I get up 6.30 every day.

I have certain rules that I've established for myself that took a while post-day job to figure out. Everyone says people who freelance or are writers struggle with the structure of it. I'm not allowed to check email before a certain hour. I'm not allowed to run errands during the day. I have to write a certain amount every day.

Time management is the mantra of my life.

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

I do like structure, and I'd love to be better at it.

If I waited to be inspired to go to the gym, I'd never get there. I schedule my exercise time; I schedule my work time. This is especially important if you have a day job as I did while writing my first seven novels.