103 Quotes by Kumail Nanjiani

You really need to have that discipline. It’s not even discipline. I just put down these rules. It’s not like a vague, ‘Motivate yourself!’ and do something. Its specific hours set aside every day for certain things.

I thought of America as this crazy, happy, exciting place where everybody’s rich and there’s stuff everywhere. Compared to Pakistan, it’s not untrue.

My stories take three or four months to fix, and it’s not magical of a process. Ultimately it’s a boring, difficult process. I write everything out, and then the parts I think are funny I put in bold. Then I go perform it. Then the parts that aren’t funny, I unbold them.

It wasn’t until I moved to New York that I decided to make a conscious effort to be myself.

Being a fish out of water is tough, but that's how you evolve.

I have a reward-and-punishment system: If I have done this much work, then I can play video games this long. It gives my day structure.

Nobody really knows what they're doing. Some are just better at pretending like they do.

Most of my exposure to American pop culture was through this weird prism of 'Mad' magazine.

You can go slow. Allow your dreams and goals to change, but live an intentional life.