Mike Rutherford Quotes

The only times I'm not relaxed are when I haven't got a project on the go.

It's always been my formula to get the next picture set up before anyone's seen the last one.

Always do whatever's next.

I try to list the top three things to get done every day, and I'll be lucky if I hit all three, but it's amazing what that does to keep you on track.

What I've always tried to do is pick short term goals.

I am big on writing to-do lists and having new goals to reach all the time, as it keeps me motivated and inspired.

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

I have ideas every day, and if I'm not carrying a pad of paper, I'm typing it into the notes thing on my iPhone, and it's just ridiculous - idle hands are the devil's plaything, and I can't be the devil's plaything. I got to be the devil; I got to be the guy making it all happen.

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.

I'm always thinking, 'What next,' even while working on one play or shooting for a film.

Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

I love to keep busy. But I never forget it's the countdown that made it all possible.

We must use time creatively.

I have ideas in mind, things that I'm working toward. There have to be goals; there has to be a challenge. Just playing, in and of itself, is great. But there has to be some motivation to it.

I like to stay busy, I like to stay focused, and I like to stay creative. Without being creative I'd be dead.

'Seconds' is very much about reaching out for the next thing after you've figured out the first thing.

If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.

We've got some very good things to do without screwing around with sleeves.

I don't think that scheduling is uncreative. I think that structure is required for creativity.

I think you can spread yourself way too thin way too easily, so when I'm trying to create, I'm trying to create ideas for projects and have a vision for other people.

I always find something to keep me busy.

First things first, second things never.

You can't get anything done hanging out all day long.

I have so much that I want to do. I hate wasting time.