Strict Schedule Quotes

early is on time, on time is late, and late is unacceptable!

I usually train twice a day, and Thursdays and Sundays are supposed to be my days off. But even on those days, I'm training at least once. I have to do at least one session each day to be happy.

Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

I eat at certain times. I got to leave the house at certain times. I shower at certain times before the game.

If I'm not at my study by 10:00, 10:30, forget it, I can't write a word.

I'm a slave to this leaf in a diary that lists what I must do, what I must say, every half hour.

I dont work weekends. Weekends are for my kids. And I have dinner at home every night when Im not physically directing a movie - I get home by six. I put the kids to bed and tell them stories and take them to school the next morning. I work basically from 9.30 to 5.30 and Im strict about that.

My profession requires me to follow a dedicated and intense exercise regime.

I wake up very early every morning and I have my coffee at 6:30. If it comes at 6:35, I'm very upset. I don't say anything but I'm upset because I'm so punctual in doing things, that if I lose five minutes I have to rush everything.

I remember when my schedule was as flexible as she is.. She call and tell me 'be here before the sun up', I be dressed before we hung up

I'm up before 5 a.m., I have breakfast, then swimming, Pilates, weight training, and physical therapy. I'm constantly going from one thing to the next. Everyone is busy, but that's my busy.

I was at an academy for basically my whole life when I played tennis, so I had the same schedule every single day.

I live - I live a highly scheduled life. There's absolutely no time wasted. I'm very focused. And I have a great assistant.

I make music almost, like, every day. But I don't release a lot of music.

I don't care about Christmas, we are going to train on Christmas Day.

My working day usually lasts from 9 A.M. to 7 P.M., then two hours of viewing time for myself. It's like a religion.

At boarding school there wasn't much time for much of anything except education.

I think this is all my life. Because if I was split gymnastics and something else like far, fun or to go with friends. No, this, you're supposed to one go, one straight road and to do every day. And touch the wall, of the goal.

Friends say, 'Shall we go out to dinner at 8?' I say, 'I can't, I'm a 10 A.M.-till-6:30 P.M. kind of guy.' I keep that very regular, no matter what.

I'm such a robot when it comes to work.

I lead a very regimented life.

I set myself 600 words a day as a minimum output, regardless of the weather, my state of mind or if I'm sick or well. There must be 600 finished words — not almost right words. Before you ask, I'll tell you that yes, I do write 600 at the top of my pad every day, and I keep track of the word count to insure I reach my quota daily — without fail.

All the kids had to sing every Sunday to draw in people from the neighboring villages. Every day, we woke up at 5 A.M. to pray and to rehearse the songs. We had no choice!

I keep a really tight schedule.

My dad drove me to Eindhoven for training at 9am, he slept in the car, it finished at 11am, then we went back and I'd be in school in Almere until 4pm. We did that for four or five years.