Jaclyn Smith Quotes

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

This is the question I want everyone to ask yourself every single day when you come up with something you feel that needs to be done: if not now, then when? And if not me, then who?

Sometimes we know the best thing to do, but fail to do it. New year's resolutions are often like that. We make resolutions because we know it would be better for us to lose weight, or get fit, or spend more time with our children. The problem is that a resolution is generally easier to break than it is to keep.

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.'

I have to watch out for being lazy.

Without deadlines and restrictions I just tend to become preoccupied with other things.

January is always a good month for behavioral economics: Few things illustrate self-control as vividly as New Year's resolutions. February is even better, though, because it lets us study why so many of those resolutions are broken.

I would step into a place of being lined up with a sense of purpose and my inner compass, and everything was going in the same direction. Then I'd get lazy and get off the track. And then things would start to fall apart, and I'd back up and get it together again.

If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.

I was just a start-and-stop guy. I could never really follow through on anything that I started.

I never talk about work in progress because once I talk about it I don't do it anymore.

In the past I would give myself a reason to have an excuse. I wouldn't show up at the gym. I wouldn't do what I'm supposed to do as a professional.

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.

If what needs to get done is going to get done, then I can't screw around with the luxury of writing rituals or waiting for pristine writing conditions to magically materialize.

If it's important to you and you want to do it 'eventually', just do it and correct course along the way.

Intention without action is an insult to those who expect the best from you.

The sooner you learn to finish things, and as a matter of course finish your creative endeavors, the better. It took me a long time to learn that.

I know. I'm lazy. But I made myself a New Years resolution that I would write myself something really special. Which means I have 'til December, right?

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

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

When accepting a responsibility, imagine that it's something that you'll have to do next week. That way you don't agree to something just because it seems so far off that it doesn't seem onerous.

My biggest regret could be summed up in one word, and that's procrastination.

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 say, 'You can never use excuses because they always run out.'

There's nothing wrong with procrastination. Or is there? I'll leave it to you to decide, but only if you have the time.