Mary Garden Quotes

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.

I'm a terrible procrastinator.

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

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.

Our own laziness taxes us more than kings...

I'm lazy but generally task oriented so having a hoop to jump through means eventually I'll make the effort.

A journalist also needs to be disciplined, and so do I. I am, essentially, lazy. Without discipline I'd be just a mass of gummy bears on the sofa instead of on book tour with my eighth novel.

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

This life is yours and no one else's, and if you spend your time looking at other people's pages, you'll never get anything done.

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

Working is one of the most dangerous forms of procrastination.

I can be a lazy slob.

I'm so good at procrastinating.

Every project is a race between your enthusiasm and your ability to get it done. Go fast. Don't slow down. A year from now, new things will interest you.

I have to watch out for being lazy.

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

Apparently, despite my awareness of its pejorative connotation, procrastinating is something I fall victim to quite frequently. I'm not proud of it; I'm just being honest.

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

I like to get up and get out. Otherwise you end up kicking about, and it's easy to flick the telly on; then before you know it, it is 11 A.M. and you haven't done anything.

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.

Here in Seattle, I'm the most productive I've ever been. I don't allow myself personal distractions. I'm extremely disciplined here.

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

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.

I'm not good when idle.