Janet Varney Quotes

I never plan tomorrow because I don’t even know what I’m doing today.

If I knew my schedule a month ahead, I'd be so bored.

I wish to God I was organized enough to tell you that, 'Yes, there will be 14 books, and this one will go here, and that one will go there'... but to be honest, I hardly know what I'm going to do when I get up in the morning.

I'm a pretty calm person. That came from living in Italy for a long time. Nothing works, nothing is on time. You have to learn to deal with it.

You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain.

There's never any ability to plan a personal life.

I like to take things one step at a time, because the entertainment industry is very uncertain.

I think that's the difference between meetings in New York and L.A. In New York, it's like, 'Be there, and be there on time.' In L.A. it's like, 'Oh, we get it. You might have ran into traffic. We'll reschedule.'

I've learned after so many years in this business that nothing is set in stone until you're on set. I've been told I was the choice for years and never got hired. So I never go there in my mind.

I think what's surprised me about the music industry is that you never know what's going to happen. I've had to teach myself that, because I love to know everything. I'm quite a control freak when it comes to stuff like that.

Better to be too early and have to try again, than be too late and have to catch up.

That man,' Elayne said, 'is never where he needs to be.' 'And yet,' Perrin said, 'he always arrives there eventually.

Tell me, he said, "What is this thing about time? Why is it better to be late than early? People are always saying, we must wait, we must wait. what are they waiting for?" "Well […] I guess people wait in order to make sure of what they feel." "And when you have waited—-has it made you sure?

No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized.

The unexpected cannot guarantee success, but it guarantees the best chance of success.

If I look back after 10 weeks and say I really want to stay then maybe I can make that happen. If I say OK it was good, but I’m ready to go then I can go, but for now I’m taking it week by week.

I just love dealing with people whose idea of sometimes is every thousand years,” I said.

As a speculator you must embrace disorder and chaos.

Only time - whatever that may be - will tell.

Nancy Clutter is always in a hurry, but she always has time. And that's one definition of a lady.

the only thing you need to do for now is get some rest and take good care of yourself until you do know the answer

There is no normal. What my job was a few years ago was completely different than what it is today. As soon as I have it dialed in, the company changes and the team changes and my role changes as a result. What the company needs is always evolving, and I don't get to choose what I want to do as much as I thought I would be now - which is OK. It keeps me in this position of learning new things and keeping me humble. There is always something I don't know, and I'm comfortable with that.

You don't catch the knuckleball, you defend against it.

Thats the beautiful thing about being human: Things change.

You see, Momo... it's like this. Sometimes, when you've a very long street ahead of you, you think how terribly long it is and feel sure you'll never get it swept... And then you hurry. You work faster and faster, and every time you look up there seems to be just as much to sweep as before, and you try even harder…, and you panic, and in the end you're out of breath and have to stop-and still the street stretches away in from of you.