Robert Benchley Quotes

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'm a terrible procrastinator.

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

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

I'm so good at procrastinating.

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

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

I am a great procrastinator. When the writing is going really well, the laundry piles up.

I waste most of the day, then finally start to write around 3 P.M., totally disgusted with myself for my wasteful nature.

I can procrastinate a little bit.

I'm a pretty good procrastinator.

I can't even carpe 15 minutes in a row. So a whole diem is out of the question.

Everything in life turns out to be a distraction from the real thing you want to do. There are a million distractions and when I was a kid I was very disciplined. I knew that the other kids weren't. I was the one able to do the thing, not because I had more talent, maybe less, but because they simply weren't applying themselves.

There will be many times in your lives--- at school, and more particularly when you are a grown up---when people will distract or divert you from what needs to be done. You may even welcome the distraction. But if you use it as an excuse for not doing what you suppose to do, you can blame no one but yourself. If you truly wish to accomplish something, you should allow nothing to stop you, and chances are you'll succeed.

If I leave my computer, I'm probably not going to get back for hours. If I take a few minutes to answer questions and go web surfing, then guilt kicks in and I get back to work.

I'm a full-time writer, which means I have the entire day to get my work done. But that can also be bad, because that means I have the entire day to get in my way.

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.'

Every project is a race between your enthusiasm and your ability to get it done. Go fast. Don't slow down. A year from now, new things will interest you.

I have to watch out for being lazy.

Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder.

I like to get up and get out. Otherwise you end up kicking about, and it's easy to flick the telly on; then before you know it, it is 11 A.M. and you haven't done anything.

You can spend your time daydreaming or make use of it in other ways.

I couldn't understand why my productivity went down when I had deliberately made more time available to write. Then I realized it was because I wasn't flying as much.

I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.

I am one of the great wasters of time. I have made it an art form. I can get up at 8 o'clock in the morning, be out of the house by 8:30 and back by 5 P.M., and I'll be going all day long and accomplish absolutely nothing. It's an amazing talent.