Greta Gerwig Quotes

If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.

Laziness is contagious just like hard work is. I didn't give myself an opportunity to be lazy and I didn't surround myself with people who are lazy.

The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term, is the indispensable prerequisite for success.

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.

Giving up on our long-term goals for immediate gratification, my friends, is procrastination.

It's very easy to fool yourself that you're working, you know, when you're really not working very hard. I mean, I'm very lazy. So for me, I would always have an excuse, you know, to go - quit early, go to a museum, you know. So I do everything I can to make myself remember this is a job. I keep a schedule.

Procrastination is like a credit card: it's a lot of fun until you get the bill.

It's about working when nobody's watching.

The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn't go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him.

Discipline is doing what you really don't want to do so you can do what you really want to do.

I only really work when I want to.

Work will take everything you give it. It's up to you to work out what you want to give it.

I can be a lazy slob.

I think it's kind of nice, in this day and age of instant gratification, that you have to wait for something.

I have all these things I want to do, but I don't have to do them right away. Because it's not just about winning, it's about succeeding, which to me are two different things.

In terms of instilling the values of mental toughness and work ethic, discipline is the gift that keeps on giving.

Years of happiness can be lost in the foolish gratification of a momentary desire for pleasure.

I think being idle is quite hard for me to do.

Instant gratification takes too long.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.

I don't think patience is something that any of us grow up with in a large dose. It's a world of instant gratification.

Our own laziness taxes us more than kings...

Without pressure, I'm not going to wake up every day to go work, or do extra shooting, or lifting.

I'm not a particularly disciplined person in terms of my work habits.