Lisa McMann Quotes

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

I'm so good at procrastinating.

I'm a pretty good procrastinator.

I procrastinate so much and I get distracted by anything.

If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.

When a man does a household job, he goes through three periods: contemplating how it will be done; contemplating when it will be done; and contemplating.

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.

Mostly, I just waste my time.

The distracting feeling of disbelief when you're finally doing something you've procrastinated on for notable amounts of time.

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

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.

The longer you wait to do something you should do now, the greater the odds that you will never actually do it.

Who has never killed an hour?

The loiterer often imputes delay to his more active friend.

Most people put off till tomorrow that which they should have done yesterday.

Procrastination is something you do yourself. You know: "I gotta sharpen these pencils before I start. I got 20 pencils, they're looking kinda dull." Well, the pencils aren't calling you and alluring you and inviting you and offering you anything. They're just sitting there. You're the one who's procrastinating.

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."

While I am on, I can discipline myself to that extent. When I am off, I can't discipline myself at all. On the other hand, when I am off, there are so many things I like doing, it doesn't really matter.

The devil finds work for idle hands.

I think there is clearly a connection between free time and procrastination. The more you have of the former, all things being equal, the more likely you are to procrastinate.

Time elaborately thrown away.

Don't put off for tomorrow what you can do today because if you enjoy it today, you can do it again tomorrow.

In putting off what one has to do, one runs the risk of never being able to do it.

Waiting is far more difficult than doing.