Rajkumar Hirani Quotes

I don't think it's shameful to admit that some days your time can be better spent reading than writing.

I'm not the kind of person who works 24 hours a day, mostly out of laziness; I don't know.

That's the thing I'm worst at: resting. I have to be forced to do it. Sometimes I think of loopholes. 'Oh, I'm just going for a walk, up a dune that's 45 degrees, but I'm walking, so it's not a workout.'

I think being idle is quite hard for me to do.

Am I a workaholic? Yes, but I also have no problem taking time for myself.

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.

I have that balance of having fun - because I can need to have a ton of fun - but also locking it in at times.

You should always waste time when you don't have any. Time is not the boss of you. Rule 408.

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.

Sometimes I'm disciplined, but I like to be a total slacker, too. I party hard, but I train hard.

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.

I just can't ever be a free spirit and just relax. When it comes to work, this is good. I'm very disciplined, which with writing is often half the battle, or more. But it also means that if I want to, say, play hooky and chocolate and watch Bravo all afternoon, I feel horribly guilty. I wish I could find a nice balance.

When it's time to recharge, I don't feel guilty about it.

I'm the worst night owl, because I'm a self-loathing night owl who thinks, 'No, I should be getting up early.' It feels unproductive. I must get over that.

When I do have spare time to write, I'm tempted to spend it napping.

Anything I do in life, I always want to work hard, play hard and so I'm still drinking my wine, I'm still eating my McDonald's on Sundays, but I am working hard through the week.

As I get older, the idea of wasting time is becoming more and more abhorrent to me and I can't stand the idea of simply lying in bed.

Perhaps I overemphasized the value of keeping busy.... I liked to imagine that I was incapable of doing nothing for afternoons myself, but maybe what disturbed me was that I was capable of it. I feared this was a knack one could get the hang of rather readily, and it was therefore now lurking in my house waiting for me to pick it up like a winter flu.

The clock upbraids me with the waste of time.

You gotta know when to be lazy. Done correctly, it's an art form that benefits everyone.

I suppose that there is no point wasting time being lazy, though of course indolence in a divine way, actually has its advantages.

Actually, I am kind of busy right now,” I drawled as I settled back into the chair and closed my eyes. “You have to make melanin while the sun shines.

Procrastination is not Laziness", I tell him. "It is fear. Call it by its right name, and forgive yourself.

I'm a big believer in doing what you've got to do, but taking a breather when you can.

Idleness is the grand Pacific Ocean of life, and in that stagnant abyss the most salutary things produce no good, the most noxious no evil. Vice, indeed, abstractedly considered, may be, and often is engendered in idleness; but the moment it becomes efficiently vice, it must quit its cradle and cease to be idle.