Jonathan Ames Quotes

I'm a bit of a workaholic. When I feel like I'm not doing something, it drives me insane.

I find I have to touch what I am working on every day, or a deep-seated dread kicks in that is very hard to overcome.

I'm a 24-hour tweet machine, I'm a 24-hour blogger. When there's no pressure on me, I can talk and write and lecture with the best of them. But put a deadline on me and I start getting writer's block.

I have no organisational skills. All my energy goes into worry - worrying takes a lot of energy.

I envy people who can think, 'No, I'm not going to work today' when they have a huge pile of deadlines stacking up.

I can't go to sleep at night if I didn't accomplish at least something. That's the one thing that keeps me up.

Sometimes I feel like just to get all my own work done would be great. You always feel like you're behind, and they're six other things that you wish you could get to but you can't.

I find fear is a great motivator to work hard.

I swing between procrastination and being really thorough so either way things aren't getting done quickly.

It is the idle man, not the great worker, who is always complaining that he has no time or opportunity.

I am a great procrastinator. When the writing is going really well, the laundry piles up.

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

Everyday, all day I have to be productive. And when I ain't productive, I get concerned.

I feel I have so many projects and I haven't completed them yet.

I don't like to get too complacent. I like to give myself five panic attacks per project.

I'm a precrastinator. Yes, that's an actual term. You know that panic you feel a few hours before a big deadline when you haven't done anything yet? I just feel that a few months ahead of time.

Momentum is a fragile force. Its worst enemy: procrastination. Its best friend: a deadline (think Election Day). Implication no. 1 (and there is no no. 2): Get to work! NOW!

I work every day. Sometimes I don't accomplish anything every day, but if I don't work every day, I get depressed and get afraid to start again. So I do something every day.

Stop putting it off! Procrastination breeds guilt, guilt breeds depression, and depression breeds failure.

You see, Momo... it's like this. Sometimes, when you've a very long street ahead of you, you think how terribly long it is and feel sure you'll never get it swept... And then you hurry. You work faster and faster, and every time you look up there seems to be just as much to sweep as before, and you try even harder…, and you panic, and in the end you're out of breath and have to stop-and still the street stretches away in from of you.

I am lazy, but for some reason, I am so paranoid that I end up working hard.

I'm only going to work now when I'm terrified.

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.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

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.