Simon Sinek Quotes

I'm guessing the stress of having to write for a deadline can be inspiring. Sometimes, pressure is good.

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

I'm so good at procrastinating.

I haven't written an awful lot recently, but I think I probably will start again very shortly. Being so much on the road, when you have a couple of weeks off, you're likely to avoid sitting at the piano, and taping, and giving yourself more work to do.

I am a great procrastinator. When the writing is going really well, the laundry piles up.

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.

Getting to my typewriter is something I push myself to, but once I am working, I work hard.

If I leave my computer, I'm probably not going to get back for hours. If I take a few minutes to answer questions and go web surfing, then guilt kicks in and I get back to 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.

If I have one thing on in a week, I find it very difficult to get back to work that week. I need a lot of dreaming time.

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

I'm a terrible procrastinator.

Once you get into the habit of work, you can be more productive in the things you want to do.

Every project is a race between your enthusiasm and your ability to get it done. Go fast. Don't slow down. A year from now, new things will interest you.

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

I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.

It is the idle man, not the great worker, who is always complaining that he has no time or opportunity.

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

TV's not the problem, and I'm tired of it being posed as this antithesis to creativity and productivity. If TV's getting in your way of writing a book, then you don't want to write a book bad enough.

I procrastinate in spades. In my defence, I also try to have all other distractions solved before I can concentrate on writing. My small theory is that to write for three hours, you need to feel like you have three days. To write for three days, you need to feel like you've got three weeks, and so on.

One of the great challenges of our age, in which the tools of our productivity are also the tools of our leisure, is to figure out how to make more useful those moments of procrastination when we're idling in front of our computer screens.

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

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.

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