Anthony Joshua Quotes

If you have the door to your office closed, you get more work done today and tomorrow, and you are more productive than most. But ten years later somehow, you don't quite know what problems are worth working on.

I'm really not one of these procrastinators who cleans the house in order to put off writing, but life gets in the way.

I have no organisational skills. All my energy goes into worry - worrying takes a lot of energy.

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

Sometimes I decide I don't want to write because it isn't the thing for me to be doing right then, and I go do something else.

I'm one of these very focused people when it comes to day-to-day work, and I'm trying not to think about what comes next so that I can stay very focused on what I'm doing now.

What I've always tried to do is pick short term goals.

You can't let someone else's agenda hijack your day.

Everybody overestimates what you can do in a day and underestimates what you can do in months of work.

I hear people say they're going to write. I ask, when? They give me vague statements. Indefinite plans get dubious results. When we're concrete about our writing time, it alleviates that thin constant feeling of anxiety that writers have - we're barbecuing hot dogs, riding a bike, sailing out in the bay, shopping for shoes, even helping a sick friend, but somewhere nervously at the periphery of our perception we know we belong somewhere else - at our desk!

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.

Procrastination is opportunity's assassin.

I do have to pick my priorities. Nobody can do everything.

I've actually not read any books on time management.

I have to be motivated, and I'm sure time will avail itself.

Milestones aren't what I think about much.

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

I'm a 24-hour tweet machine, I'm a 24-hour blogger. When there's no pressure on me, I can talk and write and lecture with the best of them. But put a deadline on me and I start getting writer's block.

I set a goal for myself everyday when I write - 10 pages a day - and it's much harder because I'm too dumb to turn off my Twitter and everything so it's always on and it's a real distraction. It's a major distraction.

If I was a little bit younger I would worry more. I'd want to do one thing at a time but now I try to do a bunch of different things at a time if I can.

Working is one of the most dangerous forms of procrastination.

I swing between procrastination and being really thorough so either way things aren't getting done quickly.

I'm a terrible procrastinator.

Also, I'm always learning better and better how to prioritize and how to leave certain things for the next day.

Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.