Eric Hoffer Quotes

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

Don't fool yourself that important things can be put off till tomorrow; they can be put off forever, or not at all

Not doing things you can do is the whole point of laziness. Not doing something you can't do is just sensible.

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

I'm so good at procrastinating.

I think of myself as naturally idle. The trouble is, the 'nothing' that I do every day is not really nothing. I potter. I muck about with emails, I make coffee, I fiddle with my computer to make sure that the book I haven't started writing is perfectly synced across all platforms and devices.

I can procrastinate a little bit.

I'm a pretty good procrastinator.

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

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

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.

When we waste our time, our time wastes us

The essential question is not, "How busy are you?" but "What are you busy at?"

People have to decide on priorities if they want to get anywhere. The best lessons I learned was to just do it.

Don't confuse activity with productivity. Many people are simply busy being busy.

The easiest thing to do in the world is to neglect the important and give in to the urgent.

Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.

If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work.

Business before pleasure.

Procrastination is something you do yourself. You know: "I gotta sharpen these pencils before I start. I got 20 pencils, they're looking kinda dull." Well, the pencils aren't calling you and alluring you and inviting you and offering you anything. They're just sitting there. You're the one who's procrastinating.

All the women in the world would not make me lose an hour.

A lot of getting a song done is booking the studio time. I'm the kind of person who will set time aside to do something and then do everything but that thing.

There's a realization that you have to do something but you just can't do it all the time.

Everyone procrastinates. The difference between high performers and low performers is largely determined by what they choose to procrastinate on. Since you must procrastinate anyway, decide today to procrastinate on low-value activities.