Sarah Cooper Quotes

The biggest way to be productive is if you're procrastinating on another more important project.

I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.

There's nothing wrong with procrastination. Or is there? I'll leave it to you to decide, but only if you have the time.

The key to getting work done on time is to stop wearing a watch.

Procrastination is probably my worst habit out of many. Especially when it comes to paperwork.

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

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.

If you need five minutes every hour to look at tweets or to just surf the Internet, you need to schedule that into your schedule, allow yourself to do that. Because when people start procrastinating, what they've done is, they've tried to ignore that urge. They try to deny themselves time on Facebook or time surfing the web.

Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder.

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 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.

My routine is to create activities for myself unrelated to writing that allow little time for writing. This means that when I do get the chance to write, it is like a stolen luxury, something clandestine and almost forbidden.

Procrastinating is a vice when it comes to productivity, but it can be a virtue for creativity.

I can't even carpe 15 minutes in a row. So a whole diem is out of the question.

You're actually making the rest of your day productive by spending 30 minutes reviewing your to-do's, prioritizing them, and ruthlessly removing things that shouldn't be there.

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!

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.

Don't be silly and don't waste your time.

I just have to be very, very organised.

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.

The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.

Time management is an oxymoron. Time is beyond our control, and the clock keeps ticking regardless of how we lead our lives. Priority management is the answer to maximizing the time we have.