Margaret Atwood Quotes

Laziness is the one common deficiency in mankind that blocks the establishment of a perfect world in which everyone leads a happy life.

I ask myself, 'why am I so lazy?' and am too lazy to reply.

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

You can have the best intentions in the world but if you do nothing, you are nothing.

I don't know how I can be so ambitious and so lazy at the same time.

Flee laziness which while it produces an immediate delight, ends in the sorrow of repentance. And know that nature without exercise is a seed shut up in the pod, and art without practice is nothing.

That man is idle who can do something better.

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

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.

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

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

I'm so good at procrastinating.

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

When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom.

I am one of the great wasters of time. I have made it an art form. I can get up at 8 o'clock in the morning, be out of the house by 8:30 and back by 5 P.M., and I'll be going all day long and accomplish absolutely nothing. It's an amazing talent.

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

I can procrastinate a little bit.

Our own laziness taxes us more than kings...

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.

Every day, I tell myself, 'It will be better if I spend more time on thinking about good ideas and working instead of watching TV or shopping.'

I'm a pretty good procrastinator.

When I see people wasting their hours doing nothing productive, nothing to contribute to the world, nothing to build relationships, it makes me sad. Actually, it makes me mad. I want to scream, 'Wake up!'.

I don't like sitting around and not doing anything because that's the easiest way to get complacent and get lazy.

Procrastinating is a habit that I have to overcome.

If you were to fault yourself in one of three areas, which would it be: (1) the inability to prioritize; (2) the inability or desire to organize around those priorities; or (3) the lack of discipline to execute around them? ... Most people say their main fault is a lack of discipline. On deeper thought, I believe that is not the case. The basic problem is that their priorities have not become deeply planted in their hearts and minds. They haven't really internalized Habit 2 [Begin with the end in mind].