Bo Bennett Quotes

The way I work, typically, I do everything at the very last minute. Even if I was given two months, I'd do it in the last three days.

The same people who never did their homework in high school are still doing that to this very day out in the real world.

Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.

I divide my time badly.

Without deadlines and restrictions I just tend to become preoccupied with other things.

The way I work, typically, I do everything at the very last minute.

You can't let someone else's agenda hijack your day.

I was the guy that would cram for everything, so I guess I was a bit of a slacker. I was a procrastinator. I spent a lot of all-nighters getting ready for tests.

I'm the kind of person who will set time aside to do something and then do everything but that thing.

The automatic things you do are basically those things that keep you from doing the better things you need to do.

Busyness is not a reason for not getting other things done. It is an excuse for not claiming your true priorities.

Always Postpone Meetings with Time-wasting Morons

It's amazing what I could've written in my life if I had realized that I should keep writing and not masturbating.

If you wait until you got time to write a novel, or time to write a story, or time to read the hundred thousands of books you should have already read - if you wait for the time, you will never do it. ‘Cause there ain’t no time; world don’t want you to do that. World wants you to go to the zoo and eat cotton candy, preferably seven days a week.

The world is full of ways and means to waste time.

Killing time is not an easy job.

But why do only unimportant things?" asked Milo, who suddenly remembered how much time he spent each day doing them. "Think of all the trouble it saves," the man explained, and his face looked as if he'd be grinning an evil grin--if he could grin at all. "If you only do the easy and useless jobs, you'll never have to worry about the important ones which are so difficult. You just won't have the time. For there's always something to do to keep you from what you really should be doing, and if it weren't for that dreadful magic staff, you'd never know how much time you were wasting.

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.

Two-thirds of my energies go in trying to save one-third for work.

One of the best ways of avoiding necessary and even urgent tasks is to seem to be busily employed on things that are already done.

the urgent crowds out the essential.

What heart can think, or tongue express, The harm that groweth of idleness?

If the term discussion has always seemed to me to imply mild warnings of wasted time, workshop sets off a clangorous alarm.

It takes an extraordinary amount of attention to manifest any ambition. But life intervenes - distractions and obligations pull us away from the ambition we originally had.

Most inputs are useless and time is wasted in proportion to the amount that is available.