Esther Dyson Quotes

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

I am one of the great wasters of time. I have made it an art form. I can get up at 8 o'clock in the morning, be out of the house by 8:30 and back by 5 P.M., and I'll be going all day long and accomplish absolutely nothing. It's an amazing talent.

Mostly, I just waste my time.

Don't try to teach a pig to sing. It doesn't work, and it annoys the pig.

We told him to get on with it. We liked wasting time, but almost nothing was more annoying than having our wasted time wasted on something not worth wasting it on.

Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.

I see no reason why I should tickle stones or waste time on polishing bronze.

Faffing is completely harmless, whereas its opposite - dynamic, purposeful activity - is often very harmful. Faffers do not tend to kill people or make them work 12-hour days or sell them shoddy merchandise or lend them vast sums of money that they cannot pay back.

Procrastination is the thief of time.

I will sleep all day; I love staying in bed with my dog and reading and not getting up and checking my phone. And that gets me into trouble because I have things to do, and that's not very productive.

Sometimes, you have to be frustrated and do something unscalable and a waste of your time to be inspired.

I soon knew what CPA meant- Can’t Produce Anything

I am not a person who can do nothing. I get very bored.

In Africa, we filled up all available time busily doing not much, and then we wasted the rest.

Unproductive effort is never a good thing.

When I don't feel like working, I don't.

There is nothing harder for me than to sit at the sideline, not being able to be productive.

Trouble Springs From Idleness.

Procrastination is still the thief of time.

That man is idle who can do something better.

One monster there is in the world, the idle man.

I need eight hours to get maybe 20 minutes of work done. I had one of those yesterday: seven hours of self-loathing.

Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright.

Indolence is the dry rot of even a good mind and a good character; the practical uselessness of both. It is the waste of what might be a happy and useful life.