Procrastination Quotes - Page 12

I think a lot of the basis of the open source movement comes from procrastinating students.

Procrastination is also a subtle act of corruption – it corrupts valuable time

How do you gag the voice in your head that says, 'You don't have to [do it] today. There's always tomorrow.'?

Death will be so quick to swoop on you; Gather merit till that moment comes! Wait till then to banish laziness? Then there'll be no time, what will you do? "This I have not done. And this I'm only starting. And this - I'm only halfway through ..." Then is the sudden coming of the Lord of Death, And oh, the thought 'Alas, I'm finished.'

I write at a standing desk, which has helped me be much more productive and solved some back problems, but mostly all my quirky habits have to do with procrastination and avoidance rather than with work. I'm slowly trying to stamp those out.

Few understand that procrastination is our natural defense, letting things take care of themselves and exercise their antifragility.

I used to go online all the time, and then I had to stop myself... because I'm a writer, and it's like: to have a procrastination tool, like, within my computer... it was just getting too hairy.

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.

Procrastination and impatience form a system of checks and balances.

If you have newspapers dating to the last millennium, magazines from the Seventies stacked on your nightstand, and countless envelopes filled with family photos stuffed in a drawer, you may be carrying procrastination to an extreme.

Do not act as if you had a thousand years to live.

I'm a big believer in putting things off, In fact, I even put off procrastinating. -Ella Varner

Do not delay, Do not delay: the golden moments fly!

I once heard a sober alcoholic say that drinking never made him happy, but it made him feel like he was going to be happy in about fifteen minutes. That was exactly it, and I couldn't understand why the happiness never came, couldn't see the flaw in my thinking, couldn't see that alcohol kept me trapped in a world of illusion, procrastination, paralysis. I lived always in the future, never in the present. Next time, next time! Next time I drank it would be different, next time it would make me feel good again.

One thing that's good about procrastination is that you always have something planned for tomorrow.

Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform and mortal men lay hold on heaven.

Any time we have projects that we haven't begun or completed, they drain energy.

Many writers-in-waiting spend a lot of time avoiding the work at hand. The most common way to avoid writing is by procrastination. This is the writer's greatest enemy. There is little to say about it except that once you decide to write every day, you must make yourself sit at the desk or table for the required period whether or not you are putting down words. Make yourself take the time even if the hours seem fruitless. Ideally, after a few days or weeks of being chained to the desk, you will submit to the story that must be told.

Do not procrastinate. Someone has said that procrastination is the thief of time. Actually, procrastination is much more. It is the thief of our self-respect. It nags at us and spoils our fun. It deprives us of the fullest realization of our ambitions and hopes.

Procrastination-thou wretched thief of time and opportunity!

Procrastination is the beginning of poor performance.

I have spent many days stringing and unstringing my instrument while the song I came to sing remains unsung.

The interesting thing about procrastination is that is has more to do with what we fail to do than with what we do.

Later is always my first choice.

Do not call procrastination laziness. Call it fear.