Joey Soloway Quotes

You can't get anything done hanging out all day long.

I have so much that I want to do. I hate wasting time.

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

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 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.

I procrastinate so much and I get distracted by anything.

Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.

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

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

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

I'm a terrible procrastinator.

I'm so good at procrastinating.

Every minute you spend in your life is either spent bringing you closer to your goals or moving you away from your goals.

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

We shall never have more time. We have, and always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until tomorrow. Keep going... Concentrate on something useful.

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

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed be doing at that moment.

Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute.

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 don't think I've been bored, ever. I've always been working on two or three things at a time; whether it was in the early days, or whatever, I was always working on something.

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.

Every morning I tell myself, 'Today has to be productive' - and then something happens that prevents me from writing.

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

I crave deadlines. If I don't have a deadline, I become a total slacker, which is why I always have so much on my plate.