Brandon Sanderson Quotes

The only time a lazy man ever succeeds is when he tries to do nothing.

Get up and do it if it needs to be done, even if you hate it!

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

I'm lazy but generally task oriented so having a hoop to jump through means eventually I'll make the effort.

Everyone confesses that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us; but most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do.

There is simply no substitute for hard work when it comes to achieving success.

You can't get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good.

I wish I was more industrious, but I don't necessarily have that drive.

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.

Sometimes, the hardest habit to break is the habit of doing nothing beyond the necessary.

Don't tolerate lazy people. They are losers.

Trying is just a noisy way of not doing something.

Nothing is difficult; it is only we who are indolent.

I had a choice to be lazy or lean - if I hadn't changed, thing probably would catch up with me.

My ambition is handicapped by laziness

A man was desired to rise from bed because the sun was already up. He replied: "If I had as far to go and as much to do as he has, I should be up by now; but having but a little way to go, I shall not get up yet."

I keep remembering from my early student days how I would walk at night through the streets, my hands bunched into fists in the pocket of my coat, my head hunched deep into my collar, and how I used to say, 'I want to work, I shall work'--and then I would come back home and be so exhausted by my determination that I had no strength left to do the actual work.

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy's sleeping? I'm working.

I've worked hard all my life. You have to if you want to get things done.

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

I tend to be a lazy actress, unless I'm pushed.

I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.

The horrible truth is that I am lazy and I am going to write and do bits that just hand themselves to me.

Working is one of the most dangerous forms of procrastination.