P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.

A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.

Indulge in procrastination, and in time yon will come to this, that because a thing ought to be done, therefore you can't do it.

Do not call procrastination laziness. Call it fear.

Laziness in doing stupid things can be a great virtue.

What is easy to do is also easy not to do.

I'm only going to work now when I'm terrified.

The easiest thing to do in the world is pull the covers up over your head and go back to sleep.

The worst thing we can do is to do nothing.

Bad things happen when problems are protected by a force field of tediousness.

I think the worst thing you can do about a situation is nothing.

Because you can be lazy if you don't know the truth.

When I don't feel like working, I don't.

Sometimes, the hardest habit to break is the habit of doing nothing beyond the necessary.

Trying is just a noisy way of not doing something.

I feel guilty just sitting around when I know I can be doing something.

Idleness is often covered by turbulence and hurry. He that neglects his known duty and real employment naturally endeavours to crowd his mind with something that may bar out the remembrance of his own folly, and does any thing but what he ought to do with eager diligence, that he may keep himself in his own favour.

Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.

People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now.

Worry is not thought; complaining is not action.

Complacency makes one as guilty as those who destroy the Earth.

A man was desired to rise from bed because the sun was already up. He replied: "If I had as far to go and as much to do as he has, I should be up by now; but having but a little way to go, I shall not get up yet."

Better to be busy than to be busy worrying.

I know what it’s like to be distracted. To seek out distractions. To exhaust yourself doing every other little thing rather than face a blank page

The man gave a shrug which indicated that, although the world did indeed have many problems, this was one of them that was not his.