Joshua Ferris Quotes

I spent most of my time playing pool instead of studying.

Mostly I just kill time," he said, "and it dies hard.

Human beings are amazing at finding ways to waste their own time.

Artists are better at finding a way to kill their time.

The world is full of ways and means to waste time.

There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do. Wasting time is merely an occupation then, and a most exhausting one.

Killing time is the chief end of our society.

Do not say to yourself, 'I am going to act this way tomorrow.' Just say to yourself - 'I am going to imagine myself acting this way NOW - for 30 minutes - today.'

As the president, you're pretty much in a bubble. And golf is a good way to get out of the bubble.

I must confess that I am interested in leisure in the same way that a poor man is interested in money.

The way to get ahead is to start now.

A man has one, a cat has nine, and in between it's killing time.

It's bad enough wasting time without killing it.

The easiest thing to do on earth is not write…But this is life on earth, you can't have everything.

Procrastinating, fighting and avoiding will only make it more difficult. The way out is to get it done.

I gotta work out. I keep saying it all the time. I keep saying I gotta start working out. Its been about two months since I've worked out. And I just don't have the time. Which uh..is odd. Because I have the time to go out to dinner. And uh..and watch TV. And get a bone density test. And uh.. try to figure out what my phone number spells in words.

It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret.

If man is to be liberated to enjoy more leisure, he must also be prepared to enjoy this leisure fully and creatively.

The Only way to do all the things you'd like to do is to read

When you kill a little time, you may be murdering opportunity.

Each morning, before Jackie started her studies, she wrote on a clean piece of paper: Tarde venientibus ossa. To the latecomers are left the bones.

You can kill a lot of time if you really want to put your mind to it Or leave it all behind and never really have to go through it

The only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you'll finish it.

The trouble when you have a job like mine is it's your social life as well, so I need to actually [find] something to do in my downtime when my kids are at school.

Killing time is not an easy job.