Catherine McCormack Quotes

Next time, you question what you are doing - ask yourself? What could I do more? In most cases, extra time will be the greatest leverage you can apply!

The only thing that's a challenge for me is not working. I get depressed when I'm not in motion.

You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today; for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.

I'm very competitive with myself. I'm a scheduler.

I am not a person who can do nothing. I get very bored.

If I don't do something constructive every day, I feel like I have wasted my time, and I almost feel guilty for not doing something I could have learned from.

My biggest fault? I guess it's a lack of patience - not when I'm working, but when I'm not working.

If I was to sit there and think about anything, it would be, 'What can you look forward to, what can you put your time into, and what can help you grow up?'

I've always been critical about my work. It pushes me to work harder.

That man is idle who can do something better.

Did you do every single thing you could today, to be your best?

The Devil often finds work for them who find none for themselves.

Motivation gets you going, but discipline keeps you growing.

My enthusiasm seems to cause my world to endlessly offer me cooperative, co-creating experiences. I'm willing and I'm eager, and not just about my writing - I feel the same way about staying in shape, enjoying my family, giving a lecture, or whatever it may be.

If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.

Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.

The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

I'm condemned by some inner compulsion to think about the daily rituals of my life. I have a low grade fever for improving myself in many ways, including everyday tasks.

My father was a drill sergeant, and I've always had that mentality drilled into me of 'you've got to do better, you've got to do better.' I just try to listen to the characters. That's what works for me.

Testing oneself is best when done alone.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

We cannot waste time. We can only waste ourselves.

I happen to be pretty productive when I am in jail. When you are in jail, you have to spend more time with yourself.

If I'm not doing something or working on something, I literally just sit in the room and think, which I don't think is productive. I won't go outside for days.