Aaron McGruder Quotes

There's nothing wrong with procrastination. Or is there? I'll leave it to you to decide, but only if you have the time.

The key to getting work done on time is to stop wearing a watch.

A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.

I've actually not read any books on time management.

I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.

I ask myself, 'why am I so lazy?' and am too lazy to reply.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

I'm a full-time writer, which means I have the entire day to get my work done. But that can also be bad, because that means I have the entire day to get in my way.

I love turning on the computer in the morning and reading the things that I did the day before - that I didn't do!

Procrastination is probably my worst habit out of many. Especially when it comes to paperwork.

We cannot waste time. We can only waste ourselves.

There are people who literally cannot start a project until the deadline is four hours away, even if it's a big one. And those people have a serious problem. My recommendation is set up mini-deadlines. You might say, 'Okay, here's my deadline after three days for this and there's another deadline for that and then a third deadline.'

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

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

Procrastination is your body telling you you need to back off a bit and think more about what you are doing.

I don't think of myself as a fast reader. I just read a lot. When someone else might think, 'I might do the dishes,' I don't. But then the dishes multiply.

I crave deadlines. If I don't have a deadline, I become a total slacker, which is why I always have so much on my plate.

I can procrastinate a little bit.

The biggest way to be productive is if you're procrastinating on another more important project.

You know Washington. If the deadline is midnight, they'll start working on it at 11:30.

You can't let someone else's agenda hijack your day.

We like to bully deadlines. Pick on them; make fun of them; even spit on them sometimes. But what a terrible thing to do. Deadlines are actually our best friends.

I'm a pretty good procrastinator.

I love getting things done. That's why I spend several hours a day reading productivity articles. And when the day is done, I bookmark the ones I didn't get to for later. I learned that trick in a productivity article.

Procrastinating is a vice when it comes to productivity, but it can be a virtue for creativity.