Michael Faraday Quotes

The more I want a book to be done, the faster I type because I just want to get it out.

I finish what I have to do in the office.

I work hard. I like getting to the end of things. And I write my plays that way.

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Momentum is a fragile force. Its worst enemy: procrastination. Its best friend: a deadline (think Election Day). Implication no. 1 (and there is no no. 2): Get to work! NOW!

I get up every day and work in the morning. I have my coffee and get to work. On good days I look up and it's dark outside and the whole day has gone by and I don't know where it's gone. But there's bad days, too. Where I struggle and sweat and a half hour creeps by and I've written three words. And half a day creeps by and I've written a sentence and a half and then I quit for the day and play computer games. You know, sometimes you eat the bear and sometimes the bear eats you. [Laughs]

We don't have time for tone. We have to go out and get the job done.

When a job is to be done there's no use putting it off.

I have a feeling the writers who find screenwriting difficult are usually just not lazy enough for the job. They don't know how to stop before the task is done. I've always had a knack for leaving things unfinished, which makes screenwriting easier for me than most.

Without a deadline, baby, I wouldn't do nothing.

Out of the work comes the work.

I always worked until I had something done and I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next. That way I could be sure of going on the next day.

I tend to work well within a deadline. If I know I have to get something in three weeks, I tend to A, enjoy myself a little bit more, and B, really work well.

In putting off what one has to do, one runs the risk of never being able to do it.

Just enough sense to stick with something-a chore, task, project, until its completed pays off much better than idle intelligence, even if idle intelligence be of genius caliber.

Write as well as you can and finish what you start.

Best advice I've ever received: Finish.

Of course, if people do not want to do any work then it is better to start the game from a random position.

A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper.

I really like to work a lot. It makes time go by fast.

The pleasantest part of work is having done it.

Sometimes you have to grit your teeth and remain tenacious and just believe the end will come. Other times it's not an issue. You just write on and the end comes naturally.

I come to the office each morning and stay for long hours doing what has to be done to the best of my ability. And when you've done the best you can, you can't do any better.

So many people are good at starts and not so good at finishing.

Whatever can be done another day can be done today.