Procrastination Quotes - Page 2

Delay is the deadliest form of denial.

I never put off till tomorrow what I can do the day after.

Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things.

The cost of procrastination is generally far greater than the cost of making mistakes.

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

Never put off until tomorrow what you can put off forever.

Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.

A lobster, when left high and dry among the rock, does not have the sense enough to work his way back to the sea, but waits for the sea to come to him. If it does not come, he remains where he is and dies, although the slightest effort would enable him to reach the waves, which are perhaps within a yard of him. The world is full of human lobsters; people stranded on the rocks of indecision and procrastination, who, instead of putting forth their own energies, are waiting for some grand billow of good fortune to set them afloat.

Procrastination is, hands down, our favorite form of self-sabotage.

Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.

The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings.

I think of myself as something of a connoisseur of procrastination, creative and dogged in my approach to not getting things done.

Never save the best for later. You don't know what tomorrow holds.

Perfectionism is the mother of procrastination.

Procrastination is like a credit card: it's a lot of fun until you get the bill.

Writing is 90% procrastination. It is a matter of doing everything you can to avoid writing, until it is about four in the morning and you reach the point where you have to write.

Procrastination most often arises from a sense that there is too much to do, and hence no single aspect of the to-do worth doing. . . . Underneath this rather antic form of action-as-inaction is the much more unsettling question whether anything is worth doing at all.

Tomorrow is the only day in the year that appeals to a lazy man.

Putting off an easy thing makes it hard. Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.

Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.

Procrastination is probably my worst habit out of many. Especially when it comes to paperwork.

Fear stops a lot of people. Fear of failure, of the unknown, of risk. And it masks itself as procrastination.

The surest way to be late is to have plenty of time

The assumption of time is one of humanity's greatest follies. We tell ourselves that there's always tomorrow, when we can no more predict tomorrow than we can the weather. Procrastination is the thief of dreams.

Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow.