Justine Larbalestier Quotes

I spent the year behind on deadlines and everything else. It's only now in December that I feel even slightly caught up. 2016 has to be better.

GOALS are dreams with deadlines, and without those deadlines, our dreams are dead in the water.

An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me.

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

I caught a cold and didn't have time to work on my autobiography.

Hopefully I'll continue to have the success I've had.

Goals aren't enough. You need goals plus deadlines: goals big enough to get excited about and deadline to make you run. One isn't much good without the other, but together they can be tremendous.

There are no unrealistic goals, only unrealistic deadlines.

Today is the tomorrow you were promised yesterday.

Expectations is the place you must always go to before you get to where you're going.

A goal without a deadline is just a dream.

Empower your dreams with deadlines.

Procrastination is the thief of time; year after year it steals, till all are fled, and to the mercies of a moment leaves the vast concerns of an eternal state. At thirty, man suspects himself a fool; knows it at forty, and reforms his plan; at fifty chides his infamous delay, pushes his prudent purpose to resolve; in all the magnanimity of thought, resolves, and re-resolves, then dies the same.

Set your goals high and go far. Don't put off tomorrow what you can do today.

Let this coming year be better than all the others. Vow to do some of the things you've always wanted to do but couldn't find the time.

If you plan to face tomorrow, do it soon.

Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done and not some future day or future year. It is today that we fit ourselves for the greater usefulness of tomorrow. Today is the seed time, now are the hours of work, and tomorrow comes the harvest and the playtime.

Are you aware that rushing toward a goal is a sublimated death wish? It's no coincidence we call them 'deadlines.'

The man who works 52 weeks in the year does not do his best in any one week of the year, Daniel Guggenheim, onetime head of the greatest smelting and mining family in America, impressed upon me. Real recreation quickens aspiration. The true purpose of recreation is not merely to amuse, not merely to afford pleasure, not merely to kill time, but to increase our fitness, enhance our usefulness, spur achievement.

Goals in writing are dreams with deadlines.

The moment you put a deadline on your dream,it becomes a goal.

Dreams are the seedlings of reality.

I can be busy for three years and you may not even know what I'm busy doing because you only see me in a few scenes here or there, but I've been working my tail off because there's just not a lot.

Where can you find purpose? Like success and happiness, our purpose exists in the present, and we constantly strive toward the future to maintain it. What it is for which we strive is up to each of us. The important thing is that we strive toward something.

The living are more demanding; the dead can wait.