Richard Le Gallienne Quotes

Remove the temptation of idleness and Cupid's bow is useless.

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

I'm so good at procrastinating.

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

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.

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

Work. Don't Think. Relax.

When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else - we are the busiest people in the world.

Any fool can be fussy and rid himself of energy all over the place, but a man has to have something in him before he can settle down to do nothing.

If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work.

I love to work, although sometimes I can spend whole days doing nothing more than picking the lint off the carpet and talking to my mother on the phone.

Flee idleness... for no one is more exposed to such temptations than he who has nothing to do.

A lot of getting a song done is booking the studio time. I'm the kind of person who will set time aside to do something and then do everything but that thing.

This week I've been reading a lot and doing little work. That's the way things ought to be. That's surely the road to success.

I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

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.

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

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 like to fish. Fishing is always a way of relaxing.

I feel best in nature or near nature.

There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.

I procrastinate so much and I get distracted by anything.

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

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