John Calipari Quotes

What scares me the most is that both the poker bot and Dropbox started out as distractions. That little voice in my head was telling me where to go, and the whole time I was telling it to shut up so I could get back to work. Sometimes that little voice knows best.

It takes an extraordinary amount of attention to manifest any ambition. But life intervenes - distractions and obligations pull us away from the ambition we originally had.

Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.

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

I think the worst and most insidious procrastination for me is research. I will be looking for some bit of fact or figure to include in the novel, and before I know, I've wasted an entire morning delving into that subject matter without a word written.

I get 0.5 seconds to react to a ball, sometimes even less than that. I can't be thinking of what XYZ has said about me. I need to surrender myself to my natural instincts. My subconscious mind knows exactly what to do. It is trained to react. At home, my family doesn't discuss media coverage.

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

I try to stay focused on my life and do try not to be brought into the Hollywood fantasy.

I'm so good at procrastinating.

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

I think when things linger, that's when they become a distraction. I don't want any distractions.

If I'm not in the dead heat of working on something, I can end up spending tons and tons of time on the Web, and I hate it. I feel the same shame I did in grad school when I was pretty much addicted to reruns of 'Star Trek: The Next Generation'. I wish someone would make the Web just go away. Just remove it from the earth.

I have to avoid things like 'World of Warcraft' or 'Minecraft', otherwise I'd never get any work done.

I think of myself as naturally idle. The trouble is, the 'nothing' that I do every day is not really nothing. I potter. I muck about with emails, I make coffee, I fiddle with my computer to make sure that the book I haven't started writing is perfectly synced across all platforms and devices.

I can procrastinate a little bit.

Writers are notorious for using any reason to keep from working: over-researching, retyping, going to meetings, waxing the floors - anything.

Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off your goals.

You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.

Being in the library is so addictive for me that I really have to exercise self-control so I can get some writing done at home.

If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work.

Nothing is more dangerous than to stop working. It is a habit that can soon be lost, one that is easily neglected and hard to resume. A measure of day-dreaming is a good thing, like a drug prudently used ... But too much submerges and drowns. Woe to the intellectual worker who allows himself to lapse wholly from positive thinking into day-dreaming. He thinks he can easily change back, and tells himself that it is all one. He is wrong! To substitute day-dreaming for thought is to confuse poison with a source of nourishment.

You really have to focus on what you're doing and just plow ahead no matter what hurdles are thrown in front of you.

I don't have a belief problem, I have a focusing weakness. I focus on what's loudest instead of what feels best.

Just imagine how much you'd get done if you stopped actively sabotaging your own work.

Have your dream...What you need now more than anything is discipline. Cast off mere words. Words turn into stone. (from Thailand)