Sarah Rees Brennan Quotes

I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.

It is an undoubted truth, that the less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in. One yawns, one procrastinates, one can do it when one will, and therefore one seldom does it at all.

Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.

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.

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.

The greatest thief this world has ever produced is procrastination, and he is still at large.

If you rest too long the weeds take the garden.

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

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

When I do have spare time to write, I'm tempted to spend it napping.

You have to keep busy. After all, no dog's ever pissed on a moving car.

I suppose that there is no point wasting time being lazy, though of course indolence in a divine way, actually has its advantages.

Live now. Procrastinate later.

Actually, I am kind of busy right now,” I drawled as I settled back into the chair and closed my eyes. “You have to make melanin while the sun shines.

The busiest people I have known in my life always have time enough to do everything. Those who do nothing are always tired and pay no attention to the little amount of work they are required to do. They complain constantly that the day is too short. The truth is, they are afraid to fight the good fight.

I dream too much, work too little.

Work first, and then rest.

I feel guilty just sitting around when I know I can be doing something.

Procrastination is a lazy man's apology.

All we have is here and now. That's why procrastination feels so right. Procrastination isn't the problem, it's the solution.

It's just one day at a time. I love multi-tasking and I'm really organized and when you have a certain work ethic, which all the girls have, we all have that same thing going on.

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.

That the Devil finds work for idle hands to do is probably true. But there is a profound difference between leisure and idleness.

I would rather be sick than idle.