Lydia Lunch Quotes

When we waste our time, our time wastes us

I hate wasting time.

If you're too smart it can limit you because you spend so much time thinking that you don't do anything.

I'm easily distracted by other things in the world around me.

There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.

Task switching is hard because we do not control what is on our mind. Despite our efforts, the original task continues to occupy our mental bandwidth. Although we can control where our time goes, we cannot fully control how our bandwidth is allocated.

When the writing is going really well, whole days and weeks go by, and I suddenly realise I have all these unpaid bills and, my God, I haven't unpacked, and the suitcase has been sitting there for three weeks.

But I'm thinking about 12 things at once, a hundred thousand times a day. Most people do, I would imagine.

One day's delay is another day's lack of progress.

We use our gadgets for distraction and entertainment. We use them to avoid work while giving the impression that we're actually working hard.

We spend so much time sublimatin', thinkin' about, 'What am I going to have for lunch, dinner?'

It frustrates me when my mind wanders and when I end up reading the same words again and again.

The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.

If you wait for the right time or the good times to start a business, you wait all your life.

Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing.

Time drinketh up the essence of every great and noble action which ought to be performed, and which is delayed in the execution.

Obstruction can be caused by so many factors - perfectionism, distraction, faltering confidence, external demands and pressures. At some point, of course, you've got to push through it all if you're to write, and if you don't, or can't, you're sunk.

You watch enough TV, and very soon the inside of your head has become a vast, arid plain, across which you cannot detect the passage of a thought.

I have a bad habit of reading more than one book simultaneously!

I'm not, like, always focused; I'm very unfocused. I'm reading, and then I'm looking at my phone, and then I'm on the Internet.

MIA stands for 'missing in action,' which is the way others can experience you when you're too busy multi-tasking, being pulled at by the world and by everything that's going on in your head, and, essentially, when you're too busy being busy.

Make use of time, let not advantage slip.

Procrastination is still the thief of time.

Procrastination is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fled.

A very little thief of occasion will rob you of a great deal of patience.