Thomas Lynch Quotes

A lot of people in our generation like to make excuses about little things that really don't hinder them from doing what they want to. It always comes down to the work ethic.

I have to watch out for being lazy.

I know. I'm lazy. But I made myself a New Years resolution that I would write myself something really special. Which means I have 'til December, right?

I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.

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

There're so many things I want to do, like become more media savvy. I am too lazy. But I'm making an effort.

My criticism is too severe sometimes and that is not good. But why don't you start doing your work unless your leader flies into a rage? It is not that you cannot do it but that you don't want to do it.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

I would step into a place of being lined up with a sense of purpose and my inner compass, and everything was going in the same direction. Then I'd get lazy and get off the track. And then things would start to fall apart, and I'd back up and get it together again.

I wish I was more industrious, but I don't necessarily have that drive.

I used to delay doing stuff that I just didn't want to deal with - things like putting the garden hose away properly or doing the dishes right after dinner. Now I have this little voice in my head that says, 'I know you don't want to do this, but just do it anyway.' In other words, there's far less stuff that I put off until tomorrow.

I know how lazy I am. So if I have to go somewhere else I can't get to easily, I talk myself out of it.

I'm a naturally lazy person, and I live for a challenge.

Laziness in my biggest pet peeve of all time. Get up, make a plan, do the work, and love yourself, people!

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

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.

There's nothing wrong with procrastination. Or is there? I'll leave it to you to decide, but only if you have the time.

This is the question I want everyone to ask yourself every single day when you come up with something you feel that needs to be done: if not now, then when? And if not me, then who?

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

It's important to set your own goals and work hard to achieve them.

You can achieve only that which you will do.

Everyone confesses that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us; but most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do.

In soloing - as in other activities - it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.

I have to be motivated, and I'm sure time will avail itself.

I'm a terrible procrastinator.