Luis von Ahn Quotes

You can't get anything done hanging out all day long.

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.

I'm not the kind of person who works 24 hours a day, mostly out of laziness; I don't know.

I suppose that there is no point wasting time being lazy, though of course indolence in a divine way, actually has its advantages.

I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

I am capable of being idle.

I'm barely prolific and incredibly lazy.

I love working. I feel guilty about doing nothing; I get bored.

I think being idle is quite hard for me to do.

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

When I do have spare time to write, I'm tempted to spend it napping.

The rest-seeking procrastinators would generally rather not exert themselves at all, while the fun-task procrastinators enjoy being busy and active all the time but have a hard time starting things that are not so amusing.

Free time is the enemy of progress

I'm pretty lazy. My wife always says, "you're the laziest, most successful Olympian I've ever seen." How does that make sense? Honestly, if I have downtime, I'm really, really good at not doing anything.

Idleness breeds our better virtues.

This week I've been reading a lot and doing little work. That's the way things ought to be. That's surely the road to success.

Maybe some people can wake up and play PlayStation all day, but that's never been me.

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.

My agent, Jeff Andrews, suggested I write a book. For some reason. he doesn't like it when I'm not doing anything.

The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.

One of the things I'm really good at is procrastinating.

I can be a lazy slob.

I'm so good at procrastinating.

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