Brian Eno Quotes

If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.

My life is a monument to procrastination, to the art of putting things off until later, or much later, or possibly never.

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

I never talk about work in progress because once I talk about it I don't do it anymore.

Do not call procrastination laziness. Call it fear.

You can always find a distraction if you're looking for one.

For me, writing is 75 percent procrastinating and 25 percent actually sitting down and working.

But I find the best things I do, I do when I'm trying to avoid doing something else I'm supposed to be doing. You know, you're working on something. You get bugged, or you lose your enthusiasm or something. So you turn to something else with an absolute vengeance.

My biggest excuse to others and myself was that I had writer's block, as if it was some kind of illness.

I am so busy doing nothing... that the idea of doing anything - which as you know, always leads to something - cuts into the nothing and then forces me to have to drop everything.

Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.

I'm so good at procrastinating.

I always thought writer's block was something that prats used as an easy excuse for not doing any work.

I've always been a procrastinator.

I can procrastinate a little bit.

There is only so much that you can kick the can down the road.

I go through periods where I work a great deal at all hours of the day whenever I am around a typewriter, and then I go through spells where I don't do anything. I just sort of have lunch - all day. I never have been able to stick to a schedule. I work when there is something due or when I am really excited about a piece.

I respect people that find writing easy, because I have focus problems. I'll spend five days eating cereal and YouTubing and two hours writing the article.

I'm not a particularly disciplined person in terms of my work habits.

The most pernicious aspect of procrastination is that it can become a habit. We don't just put off our lives today; we put them off till our deathbed.

Procrastination is not the problem. It is the solution. Procrastinate now, don’t put it off.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can put off till the day after tomorrow. Like a variant of the song, Tomorrow, only it's more of the idea, the Mexican idea of mañana, you know, [singing] mañana, mañana, I love you, mañana, you're always a day away.

A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.

I wish I had a typical workday. I struggle to get up at seven and almost always fail. I just try to get to my office as soon as I can, but it's always later than I would like.

When I'm supposed to be writing I clean my apartment, take my clothes to the laundry, get organized, make lists, do the dishes. I would never do a dish unless I had to write.