Tom Perrotta Quotes

Diversion and indifference are the two widest roads to Hell in today's world.

The worst thing we can do is to do nothing.

I don't have ADD, but I only like to pay attention to the things I like to pay attention to, and things like getting a TV and getting the cable working are beyond me, and so I let such things lapse, sometimes for years. This applies to keeping my apartment clean.

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

Many of us enjoy going to ball games and watching them on television. I am no exception. I love to watch a good athletic contest. If we spend excessive time with sporting events, however, we may neglect things that are much more important.

Of all the cankers of human happiness, none corrodes with so silent, yet so baneful a tooth as indolence.

That's human nature. Nobody does anything until it's too late.

All the time that he can spare from the adornment of his person, he devotes to the neglect of his duties.

That which is always within our reach, is always the last thing we take; and the chances are, that what we can do every day, we never do at all.

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

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."

People dont pay attention until they have to

Boredom ... causes us to neglect more duties than does interest.

The universe is not short on wake-up calls. We’re just quick to hit the snooze button.

The real problem is not the bad guys; it is that good guys have gone to sleep.

Why can’t the world hear? I ask myself. Within a few moments I ask it many times. Because it doesn’t care, I finally answer, and I know I’m right. It’s like I’ve been chosen. But chosen for what? I ask.

Flee idleness... for no one is more exposed to such temptations than he who has nothing to do.

Two-thirds of my energies go in trying to save one-third for work.

I would start a revolution, but I just bought a hammock.

It is a great pleasure to escape sometimes from the restless class of Reformers. What if these grievances exist? So do you and I.

It takes an extraordinary amount of attention to manifest any ambition. But life intervenes - distractions and obligations pull us away from the ambition we originally had.

All the women in the world would not make me lose an hour.

With the notebook resting ominuslously on Janie's bed, Janie procrastinates. Does her homework first. And pours herself a bowl of ceral. Breakfast - one of the five most important meals of the day. Not to be skipped.

Time is not your enemy, forever is.

A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.