C. S. Lewis Quotes

I want to concentrate on work and won't do anything to divert my concentration.

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

I procrastinate so much and I get distracted by anything.

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

I'm a terrible procrastinator.

I'm so good at procrastinating.

The best way for me to procrastinate as a writer is research.

The Web forces me to be disciplined and not to waste time - but before the Web was invented, there were plenty of opportunities to do that anyway.

I was a good student, but I was the biggest procrastinator.

I can procrastinate a little bit.

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

I'm a pretty good procrastinator.

For me, the enemy is procrastination, and losing attention, you know? It's not the writing that's difficult, it's sitting down to write - if that makes any sense. I feel I can write pretty well, and I can write pretty effectively.

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

Getting distracted by trifles is the easiest thing in the world… Focus on your main duty

I am most drawn to writing when I have something else urgent to do.

Cruising the Internet doesn't count as writing. Neither does answering e-mail. Before you check Twitter & FB and do other similar tasks that get in the way of writing, write first. (I really need to take my own advice here!)

If you wait until you feel like doing something, you will likely never accomplish it.

If you have work to do, don't wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.

I don't wait for moods - you'd never get anything done if you did.

You've just got to focus on what you have to do.

Everything in life turns out to be a distraction from the real thing you want to do. There are a million distractions and when I was a kid I was very disciplined. I knew that the other kids weren't. I was the one able to do the thing, not because I had more talent, maybe less, but because they simply weren't applying themselves.

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.

Staying focused on a project or plan is one of the most difficult challenges we face. There is always the house to clean, calls to make, laundry to fold, deadlines to meet. Actually, there is only one thing that keeps us from our goals - lack of focus. And very often, lack of focus is caused by fear.

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.