Peyton Reed Quotes

I know. I'm lazy. But I made myself a New Years resolution that I would write myself something really special. Which means I have 'til December, right?

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

I waste most of the day, then finally start to write around 3 P.M., totally disgusted with myself for my wasteful nature.

I ask myself, 'why am I so lazy?' and am too lazy to reply.

I'm lazy but generally task oriented so having a hoop to jump through means eventually I'll make the effort.

One, I push my deadlines closer than anybody else, or let's say it this way: I'm really late.

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

There're so many things I want to do, like become more media savvy. I am too lazy. But I'm making an effort.

Apparently, despite my awareness of its pejorative connotation, procrastinating is something I fall victim to quite frequently. I'm not proud of it; I'm just being honest.

I'm quite good at not writing.

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

Laziness in my biggest pet peeve of all time. Get up, make a plan, do the work, and love yourself, people!

A lot of people in our generation like to make excuses about little things that really don't hinder them from doing what they want to. It always comes down to the work ethic.

When you find an unwillingness to rise early in the morning, make this short speech to yourself: I am getting up now to do the business of a man; and am I out of humour for going about that I was made for, and for the sake of which I was sent into the world? Was I then designed for nothing but to doze and keep warm beneath the counterpane? Well! but this is a comfortable way of living.

In the morning, when you are sluggish about getting up, let this thought be present: 'I am rising to a man's work.'

In theory I can do almost anything; certainly I have been told how. In practice I do as little as possible. I pretend to myself that I would be quite happy in a hermit's cave, living on gruel, if someone else would make the gruel. Gruel, like so many other things, is beyond me.

You know your getting older when you lay in bed til 10am and think to yourself god I just wasted half the day.

When you get up in the morning, set your motivations.

My biggest regret could be summed up in one word, and that's procrastination.

A journalist also needs to be disciplined, and so do I. I am, essentially, lazy. Without discipline I'd be just a mass of gummy bears on the sofa instead of on book tour with my eighth novel.

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.

Working hard is great, being lazy sometimes is great, but failed potential is the worst.

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

If I knew that 3D was going to be such a big deal, I would have gotten that boob job 10 years ago.