Marcel Proust Quotes

In football, I need full concentration even though I really enjoy it.

I love a daily deadline.

I just have to be very, very organised.

My lab and academic work fill my day from about 9 am to 7 p.m. Then I zoom out the lens to work on my other writing.

Because I'm so busy and because I think of myself as a painter, I desperately guard the time that I have to paint. And sometimes I'm irresponsible to my career in order to paint. Because painting is obsessive. I forget to eat. I forget to sleep.

I learned that we can do anything, but we can't do everything... at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.

When I am training, I don't want any disturbances. I have to be focused, not losing sight of my targets. I cannot evade the fact that I am now well known and I have made already some money, but you can learn how to deal with it.

On a regular basis if you're trying to produce something, I think you should work every day and set achievable goals.

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.

When I was bringing up a child, I taught myself to write in very short, concentrated bursts. If I had a weekend, or a week, I'd do unbelievable amounts of work.

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.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

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

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.

The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything.

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

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.

All we have to do is find something we love doing each day, surround ourselves with like-minded people, and put all of our effort into that one thing at all times.

I pay attention to every minute of the day.

I can do anything for 25 minutes.

The biggest challenge is to stay focused. It's to have the discipline when there are so many competing things.

I am not very regimented unless I have to be. I wish I was someone that could just write every day, but I tend to work on specific projects for a specific period of time and then stop.

I've set up my goals, and I go after them, and if I do that each day, the rest will take care of itself.

Always be focused and never let it go - that's something I've learned so much. I learned that from Simeone.