Cary Fukunaga Quotes

I know what I am, and what I have to do in my profession, so I can handle the pressure. It's the way I think.

I have to take care of myself because if you get sick, you still have to work. I'm not much a party animal, anyway. I lay low.

I can work 24 hours a day and not have it bother me.

I just try to stay positive and focused on the tennis, not let anything get to me, like crazy questions. But I'm tough, let me tell you, tough as nails.

I love this... being busy and working every day.

I work well under pressure.

I can deal with the media; I can deal with some of the criticism I get and still focus on what I need to do.

Put as much pressure on me as possible. I have no qualms handling that, because I expect that out of myself.

I know how to deal with pressure.

Anyone can have a good day, but you have to be able to perform on a bad day.

But do your work, and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself.

I know the most important faculty to develop is one for hard, continuous and varied work and living; but the difference between knowing this and doing anything consistent about it is often abysmal.

I don't have the luxury of not going to work when I don't feel up to it. Most people don't. On those days, I acknowledge I am feeling f-cking crappy, and I'm not at my best, and I still want to or need to keep walking forward. I have to do some of my best work on my worst days. I have to look pretty even when I don't feel pretty. There's a way to hold both things.

Hard work is good for the soul, and it keeps you from feeling sorry for yourself because you don’t have time.

If unwilling to rise in the morning, say to thyself, 'I awake to do the work of a man.'

It's actually true that I keep myself going by constantly promising myself that in response for the hard work I will be allowed to do some more hard work later on.

Our whole family thrives under pressure. It's like our family motto or something. Apart from my brother Peter, of course. He had a nervous break down. But the rest of us.

Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.

If you let conditions stop you from working, they'll always stop you.

Firstly, train lots. Secondly, train hard, the harder the better, no shortcuts. They will always come back to bite you when you least expect it. And third, always remember where you come from. Your parents, family, team, coaches, are the ones who will get you to where you are and will always be there for you.

It's just one day, one twenty-four-hour period to get yourself through. - Adam

His [Sam Fuller] self-discipline was amazing. No matter what happened, he'd always go out to his Royal Upright typewriter and just keep working on his stories, his "yarns" as he called them.

I don't wait for moods - you'd never get anything done if you did.

When you have to do something, you have to do it. Putting it off only makes it worse. Believe me, I know.

Whatever it is, you have to show up for the job, and power through.