Jesse Itzler Quotes

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

Procrastinating is a habit that I have to overcome.

I would never finish a painting if I didn't have a deadline.

I'm lazy but generally task oriented so having a hoop to jump through means eventually I'll make the effort.

It's very easy to fool yourself that you're working, you know, when you're really not working very hard. I mean, I'm very lazy. So for me, I would always have an excuse, you know, to go - quit early, go to a museum, you know. So I do everything I can to make myself remember this is a job. I keep a schedule.

I'm terrible with my workout regime and following it strictly. I'm terrible with a healthy diet and following it strictly. I'm terrible on the weekends about getting up at reasonable hours and all of those things. But, when it comes to my work and the discipline it takes to get to work on time - I hate unprofessionalism.

There are people who literally cannot start a project until the deadline is four hours away, even if it's a big one. And those people have a serious problem. My recommendation is set up mini-deadlines. You might say, 'Okay, here's my deadline after three days for this and there's another deadline for that and then a third deadline.'

My block was due to two overlapping factors: laziness and lack of discipline.

Don't let yourself make excuses for not doing the things you want to do.

I like to get up and get out. Otherwise you end up kicking about, and it's easy to flick the telly on; then before you know it, it is 11 A.M. and you haven't done anything.

I like to work and it kind of keeps me in line, which is very good because I need that structure.

If I let myself go, nothing will get done.

I'm not a particularly disciplined person in terms of my work habits.

The biggest challenge is to stay focused. It's to have the discipline when there are so many competing things.

I love a daily deadline.

I have a terrible work ethic. The best way for me to do anything in life is for someone to say, 'You need to do this by this time, or you're in trouble'.

I have at least one goal that I work toward each day. It's all about taking hold of the day rather than letting the day run you.

Laziness in my biggest pet peeve of all time. Get up, make a plan, do the work, and love yourself, people!

A lot of people in our generation like to make excuses about little things that really don't hinder them from doing what they want to. It always comes down to the work ethic.

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.

Self-discipline is a great time-saver; it is the ability to make yourself work on only those things that are most important to you.

If you don't have discipline, you don't have anything

The challenge is not to manage time, but to manage ourselves.

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

I said to myself, 'If you don't sit down to it today, when will you ever sit down to it?'