Dan Pena Quotes

Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing.

The bridge between wishing and accomplishing is discipline.

Once you have commitment, you need the discipline and hard work to get you there.

If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.

Work hard. Through determination and self-focus and discipline, you can accomplish anything.

If you can focus the energy into something valuable, put that into work ethic.

Discipline - Success doesn't just happen. You have to be intentional about it, and that takes discipline.

Self-discipline is a great time-saver; it is the ability to make yourself work on only those things that are most important to you.

If you don't have discipline, you don't have anything

From the very start of my career, it was clear to me that achievement was built on discipline.

Motivation gets you going, but discipline keeps you growing.

Everything in life turns out to be a distraction from the real thing you want to do. There are a million distractions and when I was a kid I was very disciplined. I knew that the other kids weren't. I was the one able to do the thing, not because I had more talent, maybe less, but because they simply weren't applying themselves.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

I just think there are enough hours in the day. If you just focus and dedicate yourself and approach each task as it presents itself, you can accomplish a lot.

I have to be motivated, and I'm sure time will avail itself.

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

I think it's really important to keep on staying motivated.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.