Chinua Achebe Quotes

It is an undoubted truth, that the less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in. One yawns, one procrastinates, one can do it when one will, and therefore one seldom does it at all.

Laziness is the one common deficiency in mankind that blocks the establishment of a perfect world in which everyone leads a happy life.

The greatest thief this world has ever produced is procrastination, and he is still at large.

A man was desired to rise from bed because the sun was already up. He replied: "If I had as far to go and as much to do as he has, I should be up by now; but having but a little way to go, I shall not get up yet."

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

I'm so good at procrastinating.

I can procrastinate a little bit.

I'm a pretty good procrastinator.

Now is the operative word. Everything you put in your way is just a method of putting off the hour when you could actually be doing your dream.

The procrastinator is not only indolent and weak, but commonly, false, too; most of the weak are false.

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.

I suppose that there is no point wasting time being lazy, though of course indolence in a divine way, actually has its advantages.

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

In theory I can do almost anything; certainly I have been told how. In practice I do as little as possible. I pretend to myself that I would be quite happy in a hermit's cave, living on gruel, if someone else would make the gruel. Gruel, like so many other things, is beyond me.

Not doing things you can do is the whole point of laziness. Not doing something you can't do is just sensible.

Nothing so perilous as procrastination

If you wait until you feel like doing something, you will likely never accomplish it.

I am sometimes something of a lazy person, so when I end up spending a lot of time using something myself - as I did with Google in the earliest of days, I knew it was a big deal.

Do not call procrastination laziness. Call it fear.

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

Procrastination is the longest word in the language, but there's only one letter between its ends when they occupy their proper places in the alphabet.

I'm a big believer in putting things off, In fact, I even put off procrastinating. -Ella Varner

How comfortable some of us become as we nestle in the web of procrastination. It is a false haven of rest for those who are content to live without purpose, commitment, or self-discipline.

Every man has something to do which he neglects, every man has faults to conquer which he delays to combat.

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.