I'm not a believer that you have to write every day. If I felt industrious, I'd spend ten hours a week writing. The writing is going on all the time in my head; the trick is to capture it. Showers are great. Traffic jams are great.
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
An industrious sinner I much prefer to a lazy saint.
I'm a Berliner - fast, loud, obnoxious, industrious, brutally open.
Acting is easier - writing is more creative. The lazy man vies with the industrious.
I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well.
My grandfather could barely read. My grandmother had a sixth-grade education. They were people who were industrious. They were frugal.
Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
All companies can benefit from fostering a more flexible environment (creating a place where the most talented, industrious, and entrepreneurial people want to work) and relinquishing hierarchical control to favor a results-oriented meritocracy.
I am obsessive, also I am industrious. Besides, the time when you are most alive and most aware is in childhood and one is trying to recapture that heightened awareness.