Charles Duhigg Quotes

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

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.

There will be many times in your lives--- at school, and more particularly when you are a grown up---when people will distract or divert you from what needs to be done. You may even welcome the distraction. But if you use it as an excuse for not doing what you suppose to do, you can blame no one but yourself. If you truly wish to accomplish something, you should allow nothing to stop you, and chances are you'll succeed.

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.

It takes discipline not to let social media steal your time.

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.

If I let myself go, nothing will get done.

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

The challenge is not to manage time, but to manage ourselves.

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.

Don't be silly and don't waste your time.

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.

One way to boost our will power and focus is to manage our distractions instead of letting them manage us.

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.

This life is yours and no one else's, and if you spend your time looking at other people's pages, you'll never get anything done.

Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.

I've actually not read any books on time management.

I'm very rigid about my schedule. I sit down at 8 A.M., and the Internet blocker goes on. My standard time is 120 minutes. I'm a compulsive writer, so it reminds me to stop writing... If I write more than that, I turn into an ogre for my kids.

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

I'm a terrible procrastinator.

Also, I'm always learning better and better how to prioritize and how to leave certain things for the next day.

I'm so good at procrastinating.

When you find yourself on the Internet when you're supposed to be writing, you've already lost. It's even beyond procrastination when you end up on the Internet.