James Hilton Quotes

Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.

A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.

Not doing things you can do is the whole point of laziness. Not doing something you can't do is just sensible.

And worrying is less work than doing something to fix the worry. This is especially true if we're careful to pick the biggest possible problems to worry about. Everybody wants to save the earth; nobody want to help Mom do the dishes.

What I need is a search engine that, no matter what I type in, comes back with GO BACK TO WORK.

The greatest thief this world has ever produced is procrastination, and he is still at large.

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."

Llarimar had told him to do his best. That sounded like an awful lot of work. Unfortunately, doing nothing was beginning to seem like even MORE work.

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

I am so busy doing nothing... that the idea of doing anything - which as you know, always leads to something - cuts into the nothing and then forces me to have to drop everything.

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

Faffing is completely harmless, whereas its opposite - dynamic, purposeful activity - is often very harmful. Faffers do not tend to kill people or make them work 12-hour days or sell them shoddy merchandise or lend them vast sums of money that they cannot pay back.

Working is one of the most dangerous forms of procrastination.

I'm so good at procrastinating.

Much of my work has come from being lazy.

If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it.

My writing process, such as it is, consists of a lot of noodling, procrastinating, dawdling, and avoiding.

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.

When I don't feel like working, I don't.

The rest-seeking procrastinators would generally rather not exert themselves at all, while the fun-task procrastinators enjoy being busy and active all the time but have a hard time starting things that are not so amusing.

The most pernicious aspect of procrastination is that it can become a habit. We don't just put off our lives today; we put them off till our deathbed.

The only time a lazy man ever succeeds is when he tries to do nothing.

There are two sorts of content; one is connected with exertion, the other with habits of indolence. The first is a virtue; the other, a vice.