Daniel Levitin Quotes

Am I a slacker? I can be a slacker. When I was in college, most people got summer jobs for college or did research during college. I went home and watched TV the whole day for three months; it was really awesome.

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

I'm so good at procrastinating.

I'm barely prolific and incredibly lazy.

You can't get anything done hanging out all day long.

I'm a naturally lazy person, and I live for a challenge.

A lot of people in our generation like to make excuses about little things that really don't hinder them from doing what they want to. It always comes down to the work ethic.

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

I'm lazy but generally task oriented so having a hoop to jump through means eventually I'll make the effort.

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.

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

I am capable of being idle.

The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.

I tend to be a lazy actress, unless I'm pushed.

Working is one of the most dangerous forms of procrastination.

There're so many things I want to do, like become more media savvy. I am too lazy. But I'm making an effort.

I have to watch out for being lazy.

I love working. I feel guilty about doing nothing; I get bored.

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

I'm always busy, but I'm lazy as well.

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 can procrastinate a little bit.

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

I wish I was more industrious, but I don't necessarily have that drive.

I'm not the kind of person who works 24 hours a day, mostly out of laziness; I don't know.