Philip James Bailey Quotes

From 7 in the morning to 11 at night, I was reading. I don't think one can find any other time in one's life to be left alone so much to read in peace like that.

I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study.

Try not to have a good time... this is supposed to be educational.

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.

Learning lines is on my mind until I do know them. I'll read the paper or paint the house to keep from starting to memorize. I've never found an easy way.

Read a record number of books in a given month. If you're focused on intellectual growth, train yourself to study harder and longer than ever before.

I think it's imperative to keep your focus on why you're in school. You're in school to get an education.

Out of silence is born concentration, and from that comes learning.

I really love the dark of the night. It helps me to concentrate.

It's not by amusing oneself that one learns.

Other things may be seized by might, or purchased with money, but knowledge is to be gained only by study, and study to be prosecuted only in retirement.

Finally, everybody agrees that no one pursuit can be successfully followed by a man who is preoccupied with many things-eloquence cannot, nor the liberal studies-since the mind, when distracted, takes in nothing very deeply, but rejects everything that is, as it were, crammed into it. There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living: there is nothing that is harder to learn.

Success isn't magic or hocus-pocus - it's simply learning how to focus.

If I get no sleep the night before a show, I feel that performance is the best one.

Concentration is a part of life. It is not the consequence of a method of education.

The time that leads to mastery is dependent on the intensity of our focus.

I unplug the phone and close the door and just stick with it. I don't ever go out for lunch and I don't take vacations. I like to be awake when no one else is: either just before dawn in the morning or late, late at night. Silence helps.

There is no easy method of learning difficult things. The method is to close the door, give out that you are not at home, and work.

The lamps are burning and the starry sky is over it all.

One should never forget that by actually perfecting one piece one gains and learns more than by starting or half-finishing a dozen.

I find I can get so much done between midnight and 4 a.m. Everything is quiet, no one is disturbing me, and if I go to bed then, I just lie awake thinking of ideas. They are very creative hours for me. One night a week I crash out, though.

And then, at night, the lit lamp and the drawn curtain, with the flutter of the turned page and soft scrape of pen on paper the only sounds to break the silence between quarter- and quarter-chime.

As soon as children find something that interests them they lose their instability and learn to concentrate.

Some of them are working very hard indeed. “What are they doing?” “My boy!” he said, eyebrows raised. As if nothing could be more obvious. “They are reading!

Night is a more quiet time to work. It aids thought.