Johann Kaspar Lavater Quotes

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

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.

Procrastination is a lazy man's apology.

The slothful are always ready to engage in idle talk of what will be done tomorrow, and every day after.

Do not call procrastination laziness. Call it fear.

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 know how deeply slothful I am.

I am one of the great wasters of time. I have made it an art form. I can get up at 8 o'clock in the morning, be out of the house by 8:30 and back by 5 P.M., and I'll be going all day long and accomplish absolutely nothing. It's an amazing talent.

I can procrastinate a little bit.

I'm a pretty good procrastinator.

I don't like sitting around and not doing anything because that's the easiest way to get complacent and get lazy.

Trouble Springs From Idleness.

That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.

I can get lazy. I don't think I'm a very driven person. When I have work, I work very hard. But when I don't work, I really don't do anything. I could easily just fade away.

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

You ever find yourself being lazy for no reason at all? Like, you pick up your mail, you go in your house, you realize you have a letter for a neighbor. You ever just look at the letter and go "Hm. Looks like they're never getting this. It'll take too much energy to go back outside. I'm gonna get that to them later on. Right now I gotta watch some 'Love Connection.' They got some new host on there."

There is no kind of idleness by which we are so easily seduced as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business.

Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy; and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night; while laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him.

Procrastination is still the thief of time.

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.

I dream too much, work too little.

Procrastination is not Laziness", I tell him. "It is fear. Call it by its right name, and forgive yourself.