Fred Armisen Quotes

I've never been someone that's had a five-year plan, or a three-year plan. That just seems to lead to a lot of disappointment, and doesn't give you the chance to be flexible.

I'm a Gemini, and my attention span is limited. So, I don't dwell on long-term goals.

I'm not a big believer in long-term planning and far-off goals. In fact, I generally set 3-month and 6-month dreamlines. The variables change too much and in-the-future distance becomes an excuse for postponing action.

I'm a goal setter, but in broad strokes. I don't have a by-October-2009-I-want-to-be-here plan. All I do is work with an element of challenge and an element of enjoyment. With that, anything can happen.

I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'.

For me, I always feel that I'm not sure what's going to happen next year or what's going to happen the year after or what's in the future. So I really kind of just focus on the project at hand and try to do the best that I can. And that, for me, is as much as I can control.

I think I don't really have any expectations; I don't look at the season as a whole - I look at it race by race.

I take one day at a time. I am not someone to define my goals.

The idea of accumulating ambitions or achievements didn't get much further than wanting to do the next exciting thing. I really haven't set out with any list of achievements.

Long-term goals are dangerous. They limit you. They hinder you from reacting to new conditions.

I try to avoid long-range plans and visions - that way I can more easily deal with anything new that comes up.

There's not a business or a master plan as far as I'm concerned. I take it week by week, and I don't think you ever expect to be able to do the next thing.

You need to prioritize. If you can't get to everything or do everything, that's okay.

I adjust my priorities according to the most important project I'm involved in at the time.

Setting goals can blind you to opportunities. You might be trying to get to point C. When opportunity B comes, you don't even look at it because you're going straight to C.

As for goals, I don't set myself those anymore. I'm not one of these 'I must have achieved this and that by next year' kind of writers. I take things as they come and find that patience and persistence tend to win out in the end.

I wait and take on projects that I think can work.

I think I am disciplined when I need to be, and relax when I can.

You can't predict it all. People will tell you to plan things out as best you can. They will tell you to focus. They will tell you to follow your dreams. They will all be right.

The thing you think is going to be huge ends up not being huge at all, and the most minute thing you do is talked about for the rest of your life, so I try not to have any expectations at all. I think that helps, if you're just focusing on the project at hand.

As an entrepreneur, one of my biggest struggles is that you have to focus, but you also have to expand.

I'm usually working on several things at once. If I get bored with one, I can go on to another. That way, I never get stuck.

I have to say, I've never been the girl that's had the five-year plan, the 10-year plan, and I'm still not.

I have a lot of goals, but I think that I just want to take it day by day.

I don't have a set way of preparing for something. You just have to take it seriously.