Michael Horton Quotes

My criticism is too severe sometimes and that is not good. But why don't you start doing your work unless your leader flies into a rage? It is not that you cannot do it but that you don't want to do it.

If instead of completely focusing on what you are doing, you are racing ahead to something shinier or to the next best thing, you will not develop excellence.

It is quite rare to find people who are really dedicated to a level of excellence. Most of us are really quite lazy most of the time.

Laziness is a programmers main virtue.

If you give yourself to your task at once, you won't have to do it twice.

You owe it to all of us all get on with what you're good at.

To give the best of the day to your work is most important.

I want to just do my job and do it well.

It is hard to get things done if you spend all of your time with the choir as opposed to the rest of the congregation.

I'm not the most powerful. I'm not the fastest. I don't have the best arm. I don't have any of that, but put it all together and do the little details well, and you're going to be a very productive player.

Over the years, I really focused on doing the best job I could, working hard, getting great results, and working with my teams.

It's so hard for me to focus on things for a long time that I'm not incredibly passionate about.

Focus on one thing and do one thing well.

There is no kind of idleness by which we are so easily seduced as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business.

Procrastination is still the thief of time.

Applause abates diligence.

Devoting a little of yourself to everything means committing a great deal of yourself to nothing.

Laziness is contagious just like hard work is. I didn't give myself an opportunity to be lazy and I didn't surround myself with people who are lazy.

Hard work's a good distraction.

Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody.

I'm pretty lazy. My wife always says, "you're the laziest, most successful Olympian I've ever seen." How does that make sense? Honestly, if I have downtime, I'm really, really good at not doing anything.

If you spend your life trying to be good at everything, you will never be great at anything.

Punctuality is for people with nothing better to do

What I need is a search engine that, no matter what I type in, comes back with GO BACK TO WORK.

We told him to get on with it. We liked wasting time, but almost nothing was more annoying than having our wasted time wasted on something not worth wasting it on.