Try to discover who I am from my choice of words and colors, as attentive people like yourselves might examine footprints to catch a thief.
Orhan PamukRead
I don't look at emails, Internet or newspapers before 1 P.M. I wake at 7 A.M., eat fruit, drink tea or coffee, and read what I've achieved, or not achieved, the previous day. Then I take a shower and work on my next sentence until 1 P.M. After I've done emails and so on, I write again from 3 P.M. until 8 P.M.; then I socialise.
Interpretation
What this quote means
This quote highlights the importance of a structured daily routine focused on productivity and self-reflection.
Orhan Pamuk emphasizes the significance of managing one's time effectively to foster creativity and productivity. By setting boundaries around when to engage with distractions like emails and social media, he prioritizes mindful reflection on his past achievements and the crafting of new writing, which reinforces the idea that a disciplined routine can lead to greater success and fulfillment in one's endeavors.
Themes
RoutineProductivityWritingSelf-ReflectionTime Management
In practice
Example use cases
In a motivational speech about effective time management.
More from Orhan Pamuk
All quotes →The beauty and mystery of this world only emerges through affection, attention, interest and compassion . . . open your eyes wide and actually see this world by attending to its colors, details and irony.
Orhan PamukRead
Where there is true art and genuine virtuosity the artist can paint an incomparable masterpiece without leaving even a trace of his identity.
Orhan PamukRead
It was in Cihangir that i first learned Istanbul was not an anonymous multitude of walled-in lives - a jungle of apartments where no one knew who was dead or who was celebrating what - but an archipelago of neighbourhoods in which everyone knew each other.
Orhan PamukRead
We had no desire to live in Istanbul, nor in Paris or New York. Let them have their discos and dollars, their skycrapers and supersonics transports. Let them have their radios and their color TV, hey, we have ours, don't we? But we have something they don't have. Heart. We have heart. Look, look how the light of life seeps into my very heart
Orhan PamukRead
These political movements flourish on the margins of Turkish society because of poverty and because of the people's feeling that they are not being represented.
Orhan PamukRead
Similar quotes
Until you have lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.
Margaret MitchellRead
An old man was asked what had robbed him of joy in his life. His reply was, "Things that never happened."
Dale CarnegieRead
A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult.
John B. S. HaldaneRead
It taught him how to listen -- how to listen with a quiet heart and a waiting soul, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgment, without opinion.
Hermann HesseRead
I wanted to ask a thousand questions, but there was no one to ask. Besides I knew that people only told lies to children-lies about everything from soup to Santa Claus.
Marilyn MonroeRead
That is where my dearest and brightest dreams have ranged — to hear for the duration of a heartbeat the universe and the totality of life in its mysterious, innate harmony.
Hermann HesseRead