Michael Jackson Quotes

When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else - we are the busiest people in the world.

Not doing things you can do is the whole point of laziness. Not doing something you can't do is just sensible.

I am a person who always feels like I am not doing the right thing because there's always so many things that need to get done.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

I lived a sloppy life. So I took very small increments in my life. I started making my bed. I started cleaning my room. There were dishes in the sink. It started off with doing small house chores. I saw that the yard needed to be mowed. So instead of being told it needed to be mowed, I would mow it.

I never feel like I should have any time free.

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.

The loiterer often imputes delay to his more active friend.

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

The Devil often finds work for them who find none for themselves.

What I have in common with the character in 'Truman' is this incredible need to please people. I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

I am so busy doing nothing... that the idea of doing anything - which as you know, always leads to something - cuts into the nothing and then forces me to have to drop everything.

My husband is always telling me I need to do less, do less, do less. But I feel like if I'm not being productive, I have a hard time relaxing and enjoying myself.

We cannot waste time. We can only waste ourselves.

Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.

I felt that it was my duty not to senselessly waste my time. And since I didn't want to waste my time, I tried to accomplish as much as possible.

When I have time, I'll be a good girl and do my chores.

It's tough to go to sleep at night, and I wake up after five hours because I feel like I'm wasting time. I just sit up at night and think about what I can do next.

Those who have least to do are generally the most busy people in the world.

My core belief is that if you're complaining about something for more than three minutes, two minutes ago you should have done something about it.

Our own laziness taxes us more than kings...

The world does not wait for you.

Time off doesn't sit well with me.

If I don't do something constructive every day, I feel like I have wasted my time, and I almost feel guilty for not doing something I could have learned from.

I have a terrible work ethic. The best way for me to do anything in life is for someone to say, 'You need to do this by this time, or you're in trouble'.