S. J. Rozan Quotes

I guess more players lick themselves that are ever licked by an opposing team. The first thing any man has to know is how to handle himself.

I found my first novel difficult. I don't want to make it sound like it's any more difficult than driving a cab or going to any other job, but there are so many opportunities for self-doubt, that you just kind of need to soldier on.

I write early in the morning. I just wake up whenever I feel awake and I have to be sitting and writing pretty soon after that. If I take too long to think about the impossibility of what I'm trying to, I'll be defeated by it.

Mostly I sat down and said, 'I'm not going to write a boring story.' And that actually, surprisingly, solves most of your problems.

Every writer uses his own way to motivate oneself.

Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.

My goal would be to find a big, fat subject that would occupy me to the end of my life, and when I finish it, I'll die. What's agony is starting; I hate starting them. I just want to keep writing now and end when it ends.

I must never write when I do not want to write.

With the first novel, I had to tell myself, 'No one is ever going to read it, so you might as well just write it.' With the second, I was pretty sure someone was going to read it.

Ultimately, it's down to the individual. Some people are born to perform. Some people need to work hard to control themselves.

Take custody of your life. Show up, do your best, and let go of the rest.

There is a direct relationship between self-discipline and self-esteem.

The ultimate goal of discipline is to teach self discipline.

Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.

If you don't like my book, write your own.

Discipline yourself, so no one else has to.

We do not lack strength so much as the will to use it; and very often our imagining that things are impossible is nothing but an excuse of our own contriving, to reconcile ourselves to our own idleness.

I'm the only one who can stop me.. I'm the one who's been sitting at the stoplight all these years, waiting for the light to turn green.

The problem with not having anybody to tell you what to do, I understood, is that there was nobody to tell you what not to do.

You play a part in every aspect of your life going the way you want or not going the way that you want. It has very little to do with other people.

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.

Character is what emerges from all the little things you were too busy to do yesterday, but did anyway.

Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners: so that if we will plant nettles, or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up tine, supply it with one gender of herbs, or distract it with many, either to have it sterile with idleness, or manured with industry, why, the power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills.

All successes begin with Self-Discipline. It starts with you.

You are your own master, you make your own future. Therefore discipline yourself as a horse-dealer trains a thoroughbred