Lenny Abrahamson Quotes

You would not believe how much time people waste in a day. And how little time they put into things they genuinely love.

Something I should have achieved quite easily took me a long time to get around to.

It is the idle man, not the great worker, who is always complaining that he has no time or opportunity.

I learned not to confuse 'busy' with 'productive,' but I'm still far too addicted to email to resist its early-morning digital snuggles.

I put my family first, and that's why for a long time, you didn't see me dating or hear about me dating or hear about me out. I had other focuses in my life, and that would be my family and my work.

I haven't fully moved over to the iPad. At any given time, I have about four DVDs in my pocket. I'm constantly screening 'Top Chef,' 'Housewives,' and all the other shows we have in development, racing to meet a deadline. So I pretty much bring my laptop everywhere.

I go through periods where I work a great deal at all hours of the day whenever I am around a typewriter, and then I go through spells where I don't do anything. I just sort of have lunch - all day. I never have been able to stick to a schedule. I work when there is something due or when I am really excited about a piece.

I'm constantly taking calls and responding to e-mails at home, and I find it best to have that little work space. And then when you're not at that little space, it's not work anymore.

I kind of try to resist working a lot. I'm not a very disciplined worker.

Being successful doesn't make you manage your time well. Managing your time well makes you successful!

I get up every day and work in the morning. I have my coffee and get to work. On good days I look up and it's dark outside and the whole day has gone by and I don't know where it's gone. But there's bad days, too. Where I struggle and sweat and a half hour creeps by and I've written three words. And half a day creeps by and I've written a sentence and a half and then I quit for the day and play computer games. You know, sometimes you eat the bear and sometimes the bear eats you. [Laughs]

All the time that he can spare from the adornment of his person, he devotes to the neglect of his duties.

I love to work, although sometimes I can spend whole days doing nothing more than picking the lint off the carpet and talking to my mother on the phone.

It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret.

you have to do more than just kill time or time will quickly kill you.

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.

You can kill a lot of time if you really want to put your mind to it Or leave it all behind and never really have to go through it

People who leave their own time out of their work cannot be surprised if their time fails to find them interesting.

Being busy is a form of laziness - lazy thinking and indiscriminate action. Being busy is most often used as a guise for avoiding the few critically important but uncomfortable actions.

If you plan to face tomorrow, do it soon.

There is always time to take more time.

Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.

If the first thing you do each morning is to eat a live frog, you can go through the day with the satisfaction of knowing that that is probably the worst thing that is going to happen to you all day long!

One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.

When you kill time, you kill your opportunities for success.