"Discipline Is Destiny"
Who else will care about the painstaking details and the consistency and integrity and the other little matters that add up to separate the memorable from the mediocre? Who else has the financial interest or the incentives to put in the effort to take this all the way?
Ryan Holiday • Perennial Seller: The Art of Making and Marketing Work that Lasts
Instead of pretending that we are living some great story, we must remain focused on the execution—and on executing with excellence.
Ryan Holiday • Ego is the Enemy: The Fight to Master Our Greatest Opponent
Discipline and freedom seem like opposites. In reality, they are partners. Discipline is not a lack of freedom, it is a harmonious relationship with time.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being
I am not busy. I am the laziest ambitious person I know. Like most writers, I feel like a reprobate who does not deserve to live on any day that I do not write, but I also feel like 4 or 5 hours is enough to earn my stay on the planet for one more day.