FKA twigs Quotes

The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.

I don't know secret to success, but I'm pretty sure the closest thing is preparation

Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Success is not an accident. When you put yourself in the right place at the right time, then you're likely to be more successful because of how you prepare yourself on a daily basis.

The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.

I believe that people make their own luck by great preparation and good strategy.

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

There is never just one thing that leads to success for anyone. I feel it always a combination of passion, dedication, hard work, and being in the right place at the right time.

I procrastinate in spades. In my defence, I also try to have all other distractions solved before I can concentrate on writing. My small theory is that to write for three hours, you need to feel like you have three days. To write for three days, you need to feel like you've got three weeks, and so on.

I think backstory is really important to know because I'm all about prep work. I like to do all of my work right away, as soon as I get it. I'm incapable of procrastinating on anything, so I like to do all of the work.

There's a lot of research and time that goes into my shoots. I spend weeks on them, even for one picture.

Preparation meets opportunity, and that causes success if you're prepared to do your job and you practice a lot, more times than not you're going to be successful.

The best piece of advice my father gave me was to always work hard. One thing he instilled: Proper preparation prevents poor performances.

For a long time, I thought it was all down to dedication, hard work, and visualising doing well - that worked for a bit, but then it stopped. I've realised you have to be more practical and mature to make things actually happen.

You don't just become a success overnight.

When you’re out there partying, horsing around, someone out there at the same time is working hard. Someone is getting smarter and someone is winning. Just remember that.

I think that 60 percent of inspiration is organization.

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

I would never finish a painting if I didn't have a deadline.

The thing with making your art your business is: It's a business. You can't sit around waiting for the muse, especially when you run a show, and you're in production, and an outline is due, a script is due, and a reshoot is due. No. You look at the calendar, and you go, 'OK. I can write from 4 to 6.' So you write.

No matter what your work today, if it is worth while at all - time to plan it out, time to do it well, and time to finish it, is your day's greatest gift and your greatest job.

If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do.

One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.

I carry a notebook with me everywhere. But that's only the first step.

Creating anything is hard.