Ernest Cline Quotes

If you love what you do, then you always find the time.

If you give yourself to your task at once, you won't have to do it twice.

I can handle a lot of work. I've always been able to. I'm a very focused individual. I come to my studio at about 7:30 in the morning and exit almost 5:00 P.M. In that time, those eight or nine hours, it's kind of laser focus on whatever I'm working on. There aren't really any distractions or anything.

I love to write just about more than anything, but there are times I have to force myself to sit down and work. I want to play with my daughter or watch a movie with my husband or go outside on the nicest day of the year. But if writing is going to be your job, you have to treat it like a job.

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

I knew I could control one thing, and that is my time and my hours and my effort and my efficiency.

Once you get into the habit of work, you can be more productive in the things you want to do.

If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.

To give the best of the day to your work is most important.

If I waited to be inspired to go to the gym, I'd never get there. I schedule my exercise time; I schedule my work time. This is especially important if you have a day job as I did while writing my first seven novels.

Today, I am wondering what would have happened to me by now, if, fifty years ago, some fluent talker had converted me to the theory of the eight-hour day and convinced me that it was not fair to my fellow-workers to put forth my best efforts in my work? I am glad that the eight-hour day had not been invented when I was a young man. If my life had been made up of eight-hour days, I don't believe I could have accomplished a great deal.

If you can focus the energy into something valuable, put that into work ethic.

Self-discipline is a great time-saver; it is the ability to make yourself work on only those things that are most important to you.

When he worked, he really worked. But when he played, he really PLAYED.

It's just one day at a time. I love multi-tasking and I'm really organized and when you have a certain work ethic, which all the girls have, we all have that same thing going on.

Hard work's a good distraction.

There are so many distractions you can face as a woman, either with relationships or worrying about, Should I go to this party? or, Should I be doing this to help me get ahead? All [success] is, is doing your work and staying focused. It's boring advice, but boring good advice is what you can get from me!

I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom. Seventy-five of us worked twenty hours every day and slept only four hours - and thrived on it.

Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing.

Very few people know how to work. Inspiration, everybody has inspiration. That's just hot air.

I took two important phone calls while in the shower today because I'm a goddam professional.

All successful individuals have become such by hard work; by improving moments before they pass into hours, and hours that other people may occupy in the pursuit of pleasure.

I spend a lot of time alone so I get a lot done. I don't do much else but work, check things out.

Discipline is the foundation upon which all success is built. Lack of discipline inevitably leads to failure.

I feel more productive, mostly because I feel like my ass is on the line. Before I had kids, I would sit around, drink, I don't even know what I did with myself.