Joshua Ferris Quotes

I hate wasting time.

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

The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.

I don't have time for any nonsense.

But I still feel I waste a lot of time leaning on my elbow and thinking to myself, 'alright sucker, now what?'

If you don't plan your time, someone else will help you waste it.

What I need is a search engine that, no matter what I type in, comes back with GO BACK TO WORK.

Look at those two. Wasting time. You wouldn't catch me doing that.

You should always waste time when you don't have any. Time is not the boss of you. Rule 408.

I hate wasting people's time.

I used to think that: whenever I heard that someone had taken 10 years to write a novel, I'd think it must be a big, serious book. Now I think, 'No - it took you one year to write, and nine years to sit around eating Kit Kats.'

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.

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.

Remove the temptation of idleness and Cupid's bow is useless.

Time waste differs from material waste in that there can be no salvage. The easiest of all wastes and the hardest to correct is the waste of time, because wasted time does not litter the floor like wasted material.

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

We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are either spent in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them.

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.

Procrastination is still the thief of time.

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.

The sofa is the enemy of productivity.

Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues. Be active in business, that temptation may miss her aim; the bird that sits is easily shot.

It's not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.

Nothing easier than to confuse busyness with goodness.

When we waste our time, our time wastes us