“I made one choice, for example, which is I'm just going to confine work to working hours. I'm not going to work on the weekend. I'm not going to be working while I'm with my son in the morning and in the evening.” MadeChoicesHoursMorningExampleSonEveningMy SonWeekendGoing To Work Author:David Plotz
“After so many years, I've learned that being creative is a full-time job with its own daily patterns. That's why writers, for example, like to establish routines for themselves. The most productive ones get started early in the morning, when the world is quiet, the phones aren't ringing, and their minds are rested, alert, and not yet polluted by other people's words.” PeopleWorldYearsMindJobsMorningCreativeExampleQuietPatternsPhonesI've LearnedProductiveRoutineBe CreativeFull Time Jobs Book:The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life Source: The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life
“I can only tell you one thing that I do know for sure, I am a dreamer. There are not many people that will recognize or want to recognize the fact that they are dreamers in their own life ... I continue to get up in the morning,enthusiastically, and go pick up a golf club with a thought that I can somewhere find that secret to making the cut. That's just an example, but it applies to other things in life, too, and that's the way I live and the way I think and the way I feel.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayWantFeelsI CanFactsSecretMorningCuttingOne ThingExamplePicksGolfClubsGet UpDreamerThings In LifeGolf Clubs Author:Arnold Palmer
“There are certain songs that I like to listen to at certain times of the day. For example, first thing in the morning I love listening to "Flamenco Sketches" off of Miles Davis' Kind of Blue.” FirstsKindCertainSongMorningExampleListeningBlueMilesFlamencoKind Of Blue Author:Jon Foreman
“For example, in Paris, if one desires to buy something, you enter the store and say "Good morning, sir" or "madam," depending on what is appropriate, you wait until you are greeted, you make polite chitchat about the weather or some such, and when the salesperson asks what they can do for you, then and only then do you bring up the vulgar business of the transaction you require.” IfsDesireAsksWaitingCan DoMorningExampleStoresWeatherParisAppropriatePoliteVulgarTransactionsSalesperson Book:Between the Bridge and the River: A Novel Source: Between the Bridge and the River: A Novel