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Writing that's not working for a living.
A loafer never works except when there is a fire; then he will carry out more furniture than anybody.
The insupportable labor of doing nothing.
Wandering and confused, lost to myself, ill-assorted, contradictory, Pausing, gazing, bending, and stopping
Nothing so perilous as procrastination
Once people grew used to free money, to laboring only when the mood struck them, they began to think there was something low about work. They became desperate to excuse their own laziness.
Thinking, Garraty thought. That's the day's business. Thinking. Thinking and isolation, because it doesn't matter if you pass the time of day with someone or not; in the end, you're alone.
Preparing for the ups and downs of life.
Many people know they're working, but not what they're working.
Workers develop routines when they do the same job for a while. They lose their edge, falling into habits not just in what they do but in how they think. Habits turn into routines. Routines into ruts.
Habits are the ruin of ambition, of initiative, of imagination.
Watcha doin? If you're like me, you're doin nothin, but you're doin it so well that everybody thinks you're doin somethin.
Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.
Farting, don't think, just fart.
The scholar's greatest weakness: calling procrastination research.
Lose this day loitering 'Twill be the same old story, Tomorrow and the next, Even more dilatory. Whatever you would do, Or dream of doing, begin it! Boldness has power, genius, and magic in it. Begin it now.
The initiative to undertake your most important duty in life is often buried beneath the accumulated debris of human habits.
In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools' pleasure
What people will do to get away from boredom!
Deep down I'm a lazy person in a constantly moving body.
PROCRASTINATION. The habit of putting off until tomorrow that which should have been done last year.
Moving. Someone said this to me a long time ago, it's bhuddist saying, I think: 'There is no wasted effort'.
Surrounding yourself with others ...
Concentration Attention Multitasking Boredom Procrastination
There is no idleness, by which we are so easily seduced, as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business, and by making the loiterer imagine that he has something to do which must not be neglected, keeps him in perpetual agitation, and hurries him rapidly from place to place.
When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom.
Do you wander and wonder? Do you start at your own shadow, or awaken to rattling disbelief that this is all you are, prospects bleak, bereft of the proof of your ambition?
If we rush ceaselessly through disconnected activities without checking in on our moods or motives, we can lose track of ourselves; in a sense, we lose the ability to experience our experiences. A
The depressed fall back exhausted from every undertaking.
... too much brooding, not enough doing.
When people are away from home, they do things they might not normally do.
Procrastination and excuses are sour spices that spoil the sweet taste of an effective work. They must hence, not be prompted under desire, partly because they are strictly time-stripping and also because they have no known essence.
The imagination needs moodling,
long, inefficient happy idling, dawdling and puttering.
It is weariness to keep toiling at the same things so that one becomes ruled by them.
Being busy is a form of laziness - lazy thinking and indiscriminate action.
Prowling about the rooms, sitting down, getting up, stirring the fire, looking out the window, teasing my hair, sitting down to write, writing nothing, writing something and tearing it up ...
When you put off a task, you buy yourself time to engage in divergent thinking rather than foreclosing on one particular idea ...
There is a - deep down, underneath all the work I do, I think there's a laziness in me.
To procrastinate seems inherent in man, for if you do to-day that you may enjoy to-morrow it is but deferring the enjoyment; so that to be idle or industrious, vicious or virtuous, is but with a view of procrastinating the one or the other.
Where there is motion, there is no procrastination. Where there is no procrastination, there is no clutter.
The procrastinator dreads beginning, the workaholic, ending.
Let thy mind still be bent, still plotting, where, And when, and how thy business may be done. Slackness breeds worms; but the sure traveller, Though he alights sometimes still goeth on.
Procrastination is, as Edward Young said in about sixteen ninety-five, the thief of time.
Creative work, summarized: In the time you set aside each day to work your ass off, ignore anything that makes you consider stopping.
When I'm not creating something, I get bored; I despair.
Being productive. Ugh. It's such a human concept. It implies you have limited time (LOL) and have to work hard to make something happen (double LOL).
He is at once a great lazybones, pitifully ambitious, and famous for unhappiness; for his entire life he has had practically nothing but half-baked ideas. The sun of laziness, which ceaselessly glows within him, vaporizes him and gnaws away that half-genius that heaven bestowed upon him.
I work fitfully, in hope rather than in expectation, invent methods which last a week, and fill notebooks with tiny, illegible writing which often defies my own attempts to decipher it.
Habit! that skilful but slow-moving arranger who begins by letting our minds suffer for weeks on end in temporary quarters, but whom our minds are none the less only too happy to discover at last, for without it, reduced to their own devices, they would be powerless to make any room seem habitable.
stuttering over your words.
Your expression dog paddles the entire
meeting but your daydream
ricochets between the prospect of quitting
and painting your room.
Inspiration without perspiration leads to frustration and stagnation.
Laziness is almost as compelling as life. The new farce you're having to play crushes you with its banality, and all in all it takes more cowardice than courage to start all over again.
There are moments when, faced with our lack of success, I wonder whether we are failures, proud but impotent. One thing reassures me as to our value: the boredom that afflicts us. It is the hall-mark of quality in modern men.
Laziness begat wearisomeness, and this put men in quest of diversions, play and company, on which however it is a constant attendant; he who works hard, has enough to do with himself otherwise.
How often we all try to solve problems by doing more of what's not working - just doing it harder, grinding it out longer. We'll do anything to avoid the lowest of the low - self-examination.
Hurrying, dragging, falling, crying, calling out names hopefully and hopelessly.
What has not wasting time impaired?
Routine is the housekeeper of inspiration
The momentum of continuous action fuels motivation, while procrastination kills motivation.
I once worked at a record label called London Records. The company was owned by Roger Ames, one of the most successful figures in the British music industry. Roger always placed a value on loafing, on holidays, on not being in the office all the time.
The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do.
There are certain inessential activities-moths of precious time-and it is worse to busy yourself with the trivial than to do nothing.
It is customary to complain of the bustle and strenuousness of our epoch. But in truth the chief mark of our epoch is a profound laziness and fatigue; and the fact is that the real laziness is the cause of the apparent bustle.
If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.
A lazy frost, a numbness of the mind.
Living, just by itself - what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting - or he'll come along and nibble your brain.
I can't sit around doing nothing. If I'm not working, I have a habit of becoming rather insular.
Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have to go and fetch them. I know no work manual or mental to equal the appalling heart-breaking anguish of fetching an idea from nowhere.
Everybody seems to think I'm lazy
I don't mind, I think they're crazy.
Running everywhere at such a speed
Till they find there's no need.
Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity.
Procrastination is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene
You put aside the work that's done, and seek some work to do.
The foundation of all civilization is loitering.
It used to be presumed that if you weren't at your desk working, you weren't working, But we said, 'Why can't we make a workplace where casual meetings are as important as working at your desk?' Sometimes that's where your better creative work happens.
caughtoutedness.
Strugglin' and striving, that's how the dough come.
One wandering thought pollutes the day;
We all have periods of our life where we're trapped, doing something we hate, and we develop habits that have nothing to do with our long-term goals to fill the downtime.
comprehending little and caring less.
As much as people fail to admit it, procrastination is a form of laziness.
Lazy: A Manifesto
I try to work in the mornings. Usually, I write in my pajamas and slowly assemble myself. I don't get organized and sit down and get dressed. I do the laundry. I drift in and out of writing.
I'm a bit of a workaholic. When I feel like I'm not doing something, it drives me insane.
There are things that have to be done and you do them and you never talk about them. You don't try to justify them. They can't be justified. You just do them. Then you forget it.
An unfinished feeling.
Inspiration in desperation.
No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination
Are you allowing your own expectations to hinder you from freely expressing yourself? Is your idea of the right way keeping you from your best way? Are you too distracted to show up? Are you living like a programmer instead of a poet?
I am prone to get carried away thinking about creative projects.
Those who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered while others gave up in despair, have practiced ... the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose.
Constant labor of one uniform kind destroys the intensity and flow of a man's animal spirits, which find recreation and delight in mere change of activity.
Stupor, insanity, and curling up with a good book." Bright finished his coffee and slipped out of bed. "And I was wondering last night how I would fill my time today. Let me get dressed and have a spot of breakfast first.
We're never really taught that we have to think about our work before we can do it; much of our daily activity is already defined for us by the undone and unmoved things staring at us when we come to work, or by the family to be fed, the laundry to be done, or the children to be dressed at home.
Striving is stealing our joy, our moments.
A lot of my work is like picking potatoes; you have to get into the rhythm of it. It is different than patience. It is not thinking. It is working with the rhythm.
In my mind, I'm doing everything, but in reality, I'm doing very, very little. You come up with one idea, one moment, one line that leads to something and you feel like it's easy. And then, you sit back and think there would be no show without that.
If I'm not doing something or working on something, I literally just sit in the room and think, which I don't think is productive. I won't go outside for days.
Idleness is the key of beggary.
Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense.