T.J. Dillashaw Quotes

It's so hard for me to focus on things for a long time that I'm not incredibly passionate about.

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 let ambition get so far ahead that it loses sight of the job at hand.

I'm a terrible procrastinator.

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

Without deadlines and restrictions I just tend to become preoccupied with other things.

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

One of the great challenges of our age, in which the tools of our productivity are also the tools of our leisure, is to figure out how to make more useful those moments of procrastination when we're idling in front of our computer screens.

When writers say that they need to 'set the mood' or 'get into the zone', those are all ways to procrastinate. Not prerequisites.

The biggest challenge is to stay focused. It's to have the discipline when there are so many competing things.

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

Keen at the start, but careless at the end.

I don't think I'm going to do any good work this morning.

Always staying focused is something that's been very tough for me. I'm still working on it.

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

I procrastinate all morning. That's when I get my office work done and answer e-mails and see what's on the Internet and do laundry.

I came to Hollywood to write and found out I don't have the attention span.

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 procrastinate so much and I get distracted by anything.

I had spent years thinking about one thing while I was doing another. I had, in fact, prided myself on being able to do two things at once.

I think the lack of precision and deep focus is why it took me years to build up my work.

I'm trying not to pay too much attention to the rankings because calculations can distract you.

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

I have no organisational skills. All my energy goes into worry - worrying takes a lot of energy.

I set a goal for myself everyday when I write - 10 pages a day - and it's much harder because I'm too dumb to turn off my Twitter and everything so it's always on and it's a real distraction. It's a major distraction.