Daniel Levitin Quotes

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

I'm so good at procrastinating.

I've always been a procrastinator.

I can procrastinate a little bit.

I'm a pretty good procrastinator.

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.

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

I procrastinate so much and I get distracted by anything.

I'm really not one of these procrastinators who cleans the house in order to put off writing, but life gets in the way.

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

Working is one of the most dangerous forms of procrastination.

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 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 respect people that find writing easy, because I have focus problems. I'll spend five days eating cereal and YouTubing and two hours writing the article.

I can't even carpe 15 minutes in a row. So a whole diem is out of the question.

I still have this habit, I guess, continued from college, where I procrastinate up until the last moment.

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'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.

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

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

Do not call procrastination laziness. Call it fear.

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

Without a deadline, baby, I wouldn't do nothing.

My life is a monument to procrastination, to the art of putting things off until later, or much later, or possibly never.