Mark Twain Quotes

All we have is here and now. That's why procrastination feels so right. Procrastination isn't the problem, it's the solution.

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

Three minutes thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.

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

Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.

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 come up with the silliest excuses when it's time to work out. I'll be like, 'Oh no! Now I have to go and find some socks.'

I'm quite good at not writing.

I've always been a procrastinator.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

Because you can be lazy if you don't know the truth.

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.

'Bad' health, in a thousand different forms, is used as an excuse for failing to do what a person wants to do, failing to accept greater responsibilities, failing to make more money, failing to achieve success.

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

There is no point in being lazy.

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.

I don't want to waste my life by being lazy.

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.

She probably gave up and started playing Minesweeper." [...] We reached the cafe and found Sydney bent over her laptop, with a barely eaten Danish and what was probably her fourth cup of coffee. We slid into seats beside her. "How's it—hey! You ARE playing Minesweeper!

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

Procrastination is not the problem. It is the solution. Procrastinate now, don’t put it off.

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

One musts avoid that wicked temptress, Laziness.