Brandon Sanderson Quotes

I don't have a good work ethic. I have a real casual relationship with hours.

Free time is the enemy of progress

Remove the temptation of idleness and Cupid's bow is useless.

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

The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day. Never let your correspondence fall behind. Whatever piece of business you have in hand, before stopping, do all the labor pertaining to it which can then be done.

That the Devil finds work for idle hands to do is probably true. But there is a profound difference between leisure and idleness.

Punctuality is for people with nothing better to do

Aesop, that great man, saw his master making water as he walked. "What!" he said, "Must we void ourselves as we run?" Use our timeas best we may, yet a great part of it will still be idly and ill spent.

A man was desired to rise from bed because the sun was already up. He replied: "If I had as far to go and as much to do as he has, I should be up by now; but having but a little way to go, I shall not get up yet."

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.

If you give yourself to your task at once, you won't have to do it twice.

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.

You would not believe how much time people waste in a day. And how little time they put into things they genuinely love.

It is the idle man, not the great worker, who is always complaining that he has no time or opportunity.

I always got my work done before playing.

I am always early to work but sometimes late to other things.

I'm always busy, but I'm lazy as well.

You can't get anything done hanging out all day long.

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

I have a terrible work ethic. The best way for me to do anything in life is for someone to say, 'You need to do this by this time, or you're in trouble'.

I start getting bored and misbehaving if I don't work hard. It's fine when you're younger - you go out a lot and muck around with your mates and drink and stuff - but I'm a bit over that now.

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.

Trouble Springs From Idleness.

The principle of work is part of self-discipline. Now, my dear young sisters, I have lived a good many years longer than you, but even back in Grandpa's time there was something to make you want to lie down and go to sleep-they called it work.