Yorgos Lanthimos Quotes

I learnt that I must never finish a book with nothing else to do.

I've started lots of books, but it's hard for me to finish them.

I'm a great reader that never has time to read.

I procrastinate so much and I get distracted by anything.

I think the lack of precision and deep focus is why it took me years to build up my work.

I've actually not read any books on time management.

When you find yourself on the Internet when you're supposed to be writing, you've already lost. It's even beyond procrastination when you end up on the Internet.

When a new book is published, read an old one.

I was a terrible student. Still, I managed to get into college, but my daydreaming threatened to sabotage me. I used behavior modification to break the cycle. I started by setting an arbitrary time limit on studying: for every 15 minutes of study, I'd allow myself an hour of daydreaming. I set the alarm.

Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.

I practice at home, in between phone calls, and have much to do.

One of the nice things about being busy is it makes you focus on what's important to you and how you use your time.

The Web forces me to be disciplined and not to waste time - but before the Web was invented, there were plenty of opportunities to do that anyway.

I procrastinate in spades. In my defence, I also try to have all other distractions solved before I can concentrate on writing. My small theory is that to write for three hours, you need to feel like you have three days. To write for three days, you need to feel like you've got three weeks, and so on.

I was a good student, but I was the biggest procrastinator.

I don't think of myself as a fast reader. I just read a lot. When someone else might think, 'I might do the dishes,' I don't. But then the dishes multiply.

No matter how busy I am, I find time to read, day and night.

I feel like I'm too busy writing history to read it.

I have a short attention span, so when one book isn't working out, I just work on another.

The biggest challenge is to stay focused. It's to have the discipline when there are so many competing things.

I can't even carpe 15 minutes in a row. So a whole diem is out of the question.

I'm the type of person that if I put it off, I'll forget about it.

I'm a horribly chronic 'get half way through the book and start a new one' person.

Staying focused on a project or plan is one of the most difficult challenges we face. There is always the house to clean, calls to make, laundry to fold, deadlines to meet. Actually, there is only one thing that keeps us from our goals - lack of focus. And very often, lack of focus is caused by fear.

I was always working, so I would get reading done very late at night a lot of times.