Procrastination Quotes - Page 13

Nothing is more burdensome than an unfinished task.

'Never put off tomorrow what you can do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent morality, I am forever letting tomorrow's work slop into today's and doing painfully and nervously today what I could do quickly and easily tomorrow.

We went to lunch and were talking about procrastination and the waitress overheard us and she said, 'I have a problem with procrastination, too.' I said 'Really?... Get my sandwich.'

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

At thirty, man suspects himself a fool; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan.

The era of procrastination...is coming to a close...we are entering a period of consequences - Winston Churchill (warning about the danger of appeasement

Climate change has a very high procrastination penalty that just grows with each passing year of inaction - rather like what happens if you don't pay off your credit card. But for climate, there is no such thing as a fresh start from bankruptcy.

Drug use and procrastination often go hand in tourniquet.

One can never change the future by waiting 'till tomorrow.

The momentum of continuous action fuels motivation, while procrastination kills motivation.

Most procrastination is largely indecision. Someone has said that "hell is just truth seen too late."

One of greatest thieves this world has is procrastination, and he is still at large. Are we aiding and abetting the criminal?

My favorite method of procrastination is to do something else that needs doing, but not quite so imminently. Sleeping is also good, as is drinking until you really can't do anything very well anymore.

There is, by God's grace, an immeasurable distance between late and too late.

The obvious danger is that in some situations [denial] can lead to procrastination in seeking help or to avoidance of action that might prevent harm.

I, for one, find writing excruciating. Some mornings, as I'm on my way to my desk, my hands actually tremble with fear. The fear, of course, is that I'll sit down at the desk and discover that what I've written is claptrap. Fear inevitably leads to procrastination.

The first is based in fear, the second in fearlessness.

Life is a race. If you delay starting, how can you have any hope of winning?

Did I become court composer through masterful procrastination? Hardly!

There is sometimes only a very fine line between deliberation and procrastination.

I try to procrastinate, if I can, productively, like I'll work on something else as procrastination. Or I take a walk. Because often I find, if you get out, more things come to you.

Absolutely not. I'm an expert in procrastination, but the last thing I want you to think is that I'm incompetent, too. Because I'm actually pretty good at what I do." -Jo

I don't think of it as procrastination. I think of it as allowing my work to accumulate urgency.

Procrastination is a deadly weapon of human progress.

How comfortable some of us become as we nestle in the web of procrastination. It is a false haven of rest for those who are content to live without purpose, commitment, or self-discipline.