George Bernard Shaw Quotes

I procrastinate so much and I get distracted by anything.

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.

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'm a terrible procrastinator.

When you find yourself on the Internet when you're supposed to be writing, you've already lost. It's even beyond procrastination when you end up on the Internet.

If you need five minutes every hour to look at tweets or to just surf the Internet, you need to schedule that into your schedule, allow yourself to do that. Because when people start procrastinating, what they've done is, they've tried to ignore that urge. They try to deny themselves time on Facebook or time surfing the web.

The Web forces me to be disciplined and not to waste time - but before the Web was invented, there were plenty of opportunities to do that anyway.

I can procrastinate a little bit.

The biggest challenge is to stay focused. It's to have the discipline when there are so many competing things.

I'm a pretty good procrastinator.

I have a terrible work ethic. The best way for me to do anything in life is for someone to say, 'You need to do this by this time, or you're in trouble'.

Remove the temptation of idleness and Cupid's bow is useless.

Everything in life turns out to be a distraction from the real thing you want to do. There are a million distractions and when I was a kid I was very disciplined. I knew that the other kids weren't. I was the one able to do the thing, not because I had more talent, maybe less, but because they simply weren't applying themselves.

There will be many times in your lives--- at school, and more particularly when you are a grown up---when people will distract or divert you from what needs to be done. You may even welcome the distraction. But if you use it as an excuse for not doing what you suppose to do, you can blame no one but yourself. If you truly wish to accomplish something, you should allow nothing to stop you, and chances are you'll succeed.

I hate wasting time.

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

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.

Don't be silly and don't waste your time.

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

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.

This life is yours and no one else's, and if you spend your time looking at other people's pages, you'll never get anything done.

Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.

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

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

I'm so good at procrastinating.