William James Quotes

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

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.

I think, with most writers, their neurosis is finishing things. I have a different neurosis. I'm terribly anxious when it's not finished. Then I become really difficult to live with.

Remember, it's more mentally tiring to think about what has to be done, and all the things that might go wrong, than it is to physically do the job.

Wasting your time in anxious worry over what you may not have is a good way to waste what you need to get it.

I'm a project guy, but when my list of things to do gets too long or involved, it can stress me out to the point of catatonia. So I focus on the small stuff first and keep the larger picture as motivation - but not so close that it overwhelms.

Being nervous is a waste of time.

I just think too much sometimes.

Insecurity is such a waste of time.

I have a tough time turning my brain off, to be honest.

I'm on a lot of airplanes. There are definitely times when I just vapor-lock. I'm on the plane, and I have so much to do, I just don't know what to do. It never lasts for very long. It might last for the flight.

I have trouble falling asleep. I have trouble shutting my mind off.

It seems like I'm thinking 400 hours a day; that's kind of how it feels.

I have the inability to stop thinking and switch off from work at night, which causes a lot of sleeplessness.

I think too much.

I have trouble going to sleep at night, because you always get the feeling that there is another thing you could do.

I find it really difficult to turn my head off. I find it difficult to zone out.

If I was to get nervous, then I'm wasting my energy.

Unproductive worry - like Parkinson's proverbial law - tends to expand to fill the time available.

I have reached the end of my time, and have hardly come to the beginning of my task.

Work finally begins when the fear of doing nothing exceeds the fear of doing it badly.

Worry is the senseless process of cluttering up tomorrows opportunities with leftover problems from today

Worrying about tomorrow is the best way to screw up today.

I don't think you have time to waste not writing because you are afraid you won't be good at it.

I waste at least an hour every day lying in bed. Then I waste time pacing. I waste time thinking. I waste time being quiet and not saying anything because I'm afraid I'll stutter.