Jasper Johns Quotes

If you want to know what you were conditioned to believe as a child, look at how you treat yourself now.

I'm a peaceful person once work ethic is established.

I'm used to being productive, ever since I was young.

I was raised to want to work for a living. The idea of just sitting around or going shopping every day appalls me.

Because of my Calvinistic upbringing, I was trained to think that what you do has to have a purpose.

My parents taught me that work ethic is one of the most important keys in life, and I believe it.

I have to be working, doing things. That's the way I grew up and the way I was taught.

Parents should plant deeply the seed of the work ethic into the hearts and habits of their children.

I get pretty focused when I start working on something. And I drink a lot of water, way more than most people.

To be perfectly honest the old habits, specifically deadlines, still very much inform what I do. I am brutally disciplined about getting manuscripts in on time.

My parents instilled a strong work ethic early on in my life.

Coming from a home like I did, I learned a lot about work ethic and determination.

My work ethic is, I think, from my farm life.

I always try to work on my birthday.

I would not be happy unless I had some regular work to do every day and I imagine that I will always feel that way no matter how old I am.

Every child should be taught that useful work is worship and that intelligent labor is the highest form of prayer.

Put 'going the extra mile' to work as part of one's daily habit

Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself.

I am a plodder, I make an appointment with my computer everyday and I have no idea where I am going.

The children are now working as if I did not exist.

I believe work is good. There is dignity in work. I also believe that a hard-work ethic forges strong leaders.

If only I had discipline, but alas, it is only an obsessive-compulsive trait and the beauty of habit that causes me to return again and again to my work.

I like to get to work early. Before my brain knows what I'm up to.

Many people know what they want to have, but have no idea of who they want to be. Getting 'things' simply will not fulfill you. Only living and doing what you believe is 'the right thing' will give you that sense of inner strength that we all deserve.

When once experience taught me that I could work when I chose, and within a quarter of an hour of my determining to do so, I was relieved, in a great measure, from those embarrassments and depressions which I see afflicting many an author who waits for a mood instead of summoning it, and is the sport, instead of the master, of his own impressions and ideas.