Jeffrey Zeldman Quotes

One of the best ways of avoiding necessary and even urgent tasks is to seem to be busily employed on things that are already done.

Resistance will tell you anything to keep you from doing your work.

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

Idleness is often covered by turbulence and hurry. He that neglects his known duty and real employment naturally endeavours to crowd his mind with something that may bar out the remembrance of his own folly, and does any thing but what he ought to do with eager diligence, that he may keep himself in his own favour.

I will read anything rather than work.

I love Twitter. It doesn't keep me from writing and I think it's a really convenient scapegoat when the truth is that the real issue is self-control. I am totally fine admitting i have none. I'm not going to blame Twitter for affecting my writing. And also, Twitter doesn't affect my writing.

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 do occasionally get into that 'checking Twitter every five minutes' state - 'Please, help me avoid my work.' I have a writing room for when I get completely out of control, so I can put myself out of the Internet's reach.

I can pretty much justify anything as work if I'm reading the news or whatever.

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.

We use our gadgets for distraction and entertainment. We use them to avoid work while giving the impression that we're actually working hard.

It takes discipline not to let social media steal your time.

I am a great procrastinator. When the writing is going really well, the laundry piles up.

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed be doing at that moment.

People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.

The problem with binge-watching on Netflix is that you lose three days of your life.

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

Procrastination is still the thief of time.

Procrastination is a deadly weapon of human progress.

The man who procrastinates is always struggling with misfortunes.

I'm learning real skills that I can apply throughout the rest of my life...procrastinating and rationalizing.

Nothing so perilous as procrastination

When I write on Twitter, I do other things: I'm working, grading, or reading, and I'm procrastinating, and I'll pop on Twitter and be like, "Hey, what's up? Yogurt's delicious."

Killing time is not an easy job.