One thing I learned working at the Brooklyn Navy Yard was to be on time. If the day begins at 8 A.M., be there early, get there, punch the time clock; don't just stand there like an oaf.
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Too many people start their day like a five-alarm fire. Instead, I teach people to start their day a little earlier than they usually do, and urge them to take the time to prepare, to practise, so when you get to work, it's show time and you're at your best.
You always gotta be on time, an hour ahead of everything. You always gotta be prepared.
I'm obsessed with being on time. If you say, 'Let's meet up at 10 A.M.,' I will be there 15 minutes early. Always.
I like to start the day early, it keeps me out of trouble.
I am always early to work but sometimes late to other things.
I come into work late morning time and go at it until early evening, and I'm lucky that I'm at the point where I'm able to do that.
Discover the times when you're most creative - mornings, nights, afternoons - and clear the time to work then. Many writers find the mornings are best, and the afternoons are only good for editorial corrections, or getting the washing done. Others can only work through the night, drunk.
I am a New Yorker, and 7:00 A.M. is a civilized hour to finish the day, not to start it.
I did not want to go out at 5:30 in the morning with my stocking cap and my navy pea coat on and shoot lines and grades for the rest of my life.
When I have a job to do, time means nothing. I lose patience with people who work on a clock.