Robert Caro Quotes

I'm a terrible procrastinator.

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

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed be doing at that moment.

I'm not a particularly disciplined person in terms of my work habits.

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

I'm so good at procrastinating.

Without deadlines and restrictions I just tend to become preoccupied with other things.

I waste most of the day, then finally start to write around 3 P.M., totally disgusted with myself for my wasteful nature.

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.

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

I can procrastinate a little bit.

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.

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

I'm a pretty good procrastinator.

I go up to my office and sit down in front of my computer and turn on the internet and then I don't work - that's the end of work for the day.

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

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

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.

Without a deadline, baby, I wouldn't do nothing.

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.

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.

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