Rose Wilder Lane Quotes

I don't know how I can be so ambitious and so lazy at the same time.

In theory I can do almost anything; certainly I have been told how. In practice I do as little as possible. I pretend to myself that I would be quite happy in a hermit's cave, living on gruel, if someone else would make the gruel. Gruel, like so many other things, is beyond me.

When I see people wasting their hours doing nothing productive, nothing to contribute to the world, nothing to build relationships, it makes me sad. Actually, it makes me mad. I want to scream, 'Wake up!'.

Laziness is the one common deficiency in mankind that blocks the establishment of a perfect world in which everyone leads a happy life.

I am sometimes something of a lazy person, so when I end up spending a lot of time using something myself - as I did with Google in the earliest of days, I knew it was a big deal.

There's nothing wrong with procrastination. Or is there? I'll leave it to you to decide, but only if you have the time.

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

You can have the best intentions in the world but if you do nothing, you are nothing.

Flee laziness which while it produces an immediate delight, ends in the sorrow of repentance. And know that nature without exercise is a seed shut up in the pod, and art without practice is nothing.

I'm too careless. I don't put out enough effort. I'm tired.

If you were to fault yourself in one of three areas, which would it be: (1) the inability to prioritize; (2) the inability or desire to organize around those priorities; or (3) the lack of discipline to execute around them? ... Most people say their main fault is a lack of discipline. On deeper thought, I believe that is not the case. The basic problem is that their priorities have not become deeply planted in their hearts and minds. They haven't really internalized Habit 2 [Begin with the end in mind].

If you wait until you feel like doing something, you will likely never accomplish it.

Take yourself by the scruff of the neck and shake off your incarnate laziness.

My ambition is handicapped by laziness

One, I push my deadlines closer than anybody else, or let's say it this way: I'm really late.

I love turning on the computer in the morning and reading the things that I did the day before - that I didn't do!

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

I'm so good at procrastinating.

We cannot waste time. We can only waste ourselves.

When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom.

One of the by-products of being a perfectionist and constantly trying to improve myself are sobering feelings of low-grade anxiety and a nagging sense of inadequacy. But this is not anxiety without a purpose. No, this anxiety keeps me humble. It creates a healthy tension that serves as the catalyst that drives me to fulfill my limited potential.

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

I can procrastinate a little bit.

Our own laziness taxes us more than kings...

I kind of waited for opportunities to be handed to me. I think I was lazy, and when things didn't go right, I just said, 'Oh well.'