Dave Eggers Quotes

Deadlines aren't bad. They help you organize your time. They help you set priorities. They make you get going when you might not feel like it.

I have certain rules that I've established for myself that took a while post-day job to figure out. Everyone says people who freelance or are writers struggle with the structure of it. I'm not allowed to check email before a certain hour. I'm not allowed to run errands during the day. I have to write a certain amount every day.

You really need to have that discipline. It's not even discipline. I just put down these rules. It's not like a vague, 'Motivate yourself!' and do something. It's specific hours set aside every day for certain things.

I just have to be very, very organised.

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

I like to work and it kind of keeps me in line, which is very good because I need that structure.

I do like structure, and I'd love to be better at it.

Having a routine makes for a better professional.

Having deadlines helps because people are constantly breathing down my neck, and tapping their toes waiting for pages. So I just have to work nine to five. If I didn't have deadlines then I might be more of a golden hour kind of guy, writing from eight to noon and calling it a day, but that's just not the way I work right now.

He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.

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

If I didn't have my little schedule book, I wouldn't get out of bed in the morning.

I like to get up and get out. Otherwise you end up kicking about, and it's easy to flick the telly on; then before you know it, it is 11 A.M. and you haven't done anything.

I write on a very strict 2-hour-a-day schedule, and I really respond to structure and invented rules. So even if I'm finding out good information on a character, I will stop when I'm set to stop.

Time management is the mantra of my life.

I just know keeping track of what I'm doing and where I'm going is important to me.

The habit I've developed is to write in any free half hour I might find.

I have found that if I spend the first hour of my day at home, I get more done, and less people steal my time.

Time management is really important.

I love a daily deadline.

When I do something, I do it for the specified amount of time, and then I do something else.

I like to be organized, I like to stick to my schedule. That's how I stay focused.

If you don't create structure, your time will get eaten up pretty quickly. And the alternative is harsher than you think, because the world will suck it up.

I never think of the time I have lost. I just carry out a programme because it's there. It's mapped out for me.

In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.