Ellen DeGeneres Quotes

I don't really manage my time. I really just wait until I'm inspired to do something. And when I'm inspired to do something, it just happens.

Things are not difficult to make; what is difficult is putting ourselves in the state of mind to make them.

I always want to give my best and do the best I can. I know when I have sung my best and when I haven't. There can be stresses and hassles with time travel and press attention. I just have to adapt and find a way of dealing with it.

If I wait for the genius to come, it just doesn't arrive.

I was always explaining why my term papers were never on time. I think that's where I got my acting training!

It would probably be better if I got involved in fewer things just because I'd have more time to write for my own purposes... But if somebody calls you up with a really cool project, it's hard to just say 'no' because you don't feel like working.

Either I need an assignment with a strict deadline - like something for a movie or a TV show or whatever - or else I need to create a made-up deadline for myself for my own records. Otherwise, I don't write anything.

Don't wait till you're older, or in some better job than you have now. Don't wait for anything. Don't wait till some magical...idea drops into your lap. That's not where ideas come from. Go looking for an idea and it'll show up. Begin now.

If you wait until you feel like doing something, you will likely never accomplish it.

I continued for too long to do things that I already knew how to do, or to write stories that I was assigned instead of fighting for stories that I couldn't get, or doing ones that I thought were important on my own. The wasting of time is the thing I worry about the most. Because time is all there is.

I ask myself, 'why am I so lazy?' and am too lazy to reply.

If you have work to do, don't wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.

Don't wait until you feel like taking positive action. Take the action and then you will feel like doing it.

When I am idle and shiftless, my affairs become confused; when I work, I get results ... not great results, but enough to encourage me.

If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work.

Character is what emerges from all the little things you were too busy to do yesterday, but did anyway.

Hurry ruins saints as well as artists.

My way of working was different years ago. I used to wait until an idea came to me. Now I go half-way to meet it, though I don't know whether I find it any the quicker.

Sometimes they work, and sometimes they just won't. Sometimes you get hung up on them. When that happens, you just throw it back, and maybe come back to it two or three weeks later.

There's so much writing I could have done and so many ideas that I had and so many things I wanted to work on that I didn't. I like too much having things in my head rather than doing the work.

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

I don't wait for moods - you'd never get anything done if you did.

If you're not creating, you're waiting.

I look for what needs to be done

An author who waits for the right 'mood' will soon find that 'moods' get fewer and fewer until they cease altogether.