“Stop sleeping, Get to work! You will have much time to sleep when you die.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“ Get back to work , he would tell himself sternly. There's a garuda to get airborne. ” — China Miéville Copy Share Image
Laziness is the one divine fragment of a godlike existence left to man from paradise. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Despair and postponement are cowardice and defeat. Men were born to succeed, not to fail. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Ay! idleness! the rich folks never fail To find some reason why the poor deserve Their miseries. — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
There are times when I am supposed to get off work by seven but only reach home by midnight because of production… — Sanam Saeed Copy Share Image
“I seem to be allergic to diligence, and Lola said, Ha. What you're allergic to is trying.” — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity is the idleness of the mind. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Procrastination is not the cause of our problems with accomplishing tasks; it is an attempt to resolve a variety of underlying issues.” — Neil A. Fiore Copy Share Image
“A woman can tolerate delays knowing they are not denials; she is diligent, and composed. She is not easily irritated like love;… — Agu Jaachynma N.E Copy Share Image
Life is just like an old time rail journey ... delays, sidetracks, smoke, dust, cinders, and jolts, interspersed only occasionally by beautiful… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A brick could be utilized to teach the danger of procrastination. Ignoring the brick and pretending everything will work itself out is… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“Rita Emmett, the author of The Procrastinator’s Handbook, summed this up well in what she labeled Emmett’s law: “The dread of doing… — Chris Bailey Copy Share Image
“the problem with reading off a screen isn’t resolution, eyestrain, or compatibility with reading in the bathtub: it’s that computers are seductive,… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no delay, no procrastination; never put… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The actions we commit are so much greater than speaking in words alone. Words are very powerful my friends ,but words aren't… — JSV Copy Share Image
“The most powerful opportunity that it presents is the chance to delay when the need to make a quick decision may present… — Rob Elliott Copy Share Image
I hate pronrastication and I hate the fact that I always procastinate to stop procastination lol. The same happened wiv me; I… — Sanidhya Copy Share Image
“If you get stuck, get away from your desk. Take a walk, take a bath, go to sleep, make a pie, draw,… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“We experience [procrastination] as fear. But fear of what? Fear of the consequences of following our heart. Fear of bankruptcy, fear of… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
The true reformer does not want time, nor money, nor coöperation, nor advice. What is time but the stuff delay is made… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
New York musicians rarely have the time for idle chat and conversation after a gig. Despite popular assumption of our scintillating after-hours,… — Kat Edmonson Copy Share Image
A general “law of least effort” applies to cognitive as well as physical exertion. The law asserts that if there are several… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information. It seems almost un-American to… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
I am a lazy man. Laziness keeps me from believing that enlightenment demands effort, discipline, strict diet, non-smoking, and other evidences of… — Thaddeus Golas Copy Share Image
I want to be as idle as I can, so that my soul may have time to grow. — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
Ricky Gervais captured the staggering laziness that comes with a boring job. — Harry Enfield Copy Share Image
Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness. — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
It is sheer laziness not compressing thought into a reasonable space. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image