Procrastination Quotes - Page 4

If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.

Procrastinate strategically... Procrastination may be the enemy of productivity but it can be a valuable resource for creativity.

If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.

I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.

Procrastination is the fear of success.

No task is a long one but the task on which one dare not start. It becomes a nightmare.

Don't put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

Procrastination is opportunity's assassin.

It sometimes seems that we live as if we wonder when life is going to begin. It isn't always clear just what we are waiting for, but some of us sometimes persist in waiting so long that life slips by - finding us still waiting for something that has been going on all the time. . . . This is the life in which the work of this life is to be done. Today is as much a part of eternity as any day a thousand years ago or as will be any day a thousand years hence. This is it, whether we are thrilled or disappointed, busy or bored! This is life, and it is passing.

Few understand that procrastination is our natural defense, letting things take care of themselves and exercise their antifragility; it results from some ecological or naturalistic wisdom, and is not always bad - at an existential level, it is my body rebelling against its entrapment. It is my soul fighting the Procrustean bed of modernity.

How does a project get to be a year behind schedule? One day at a time.

Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them.

Don't let perfection become procrastination . Do it now.

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.

Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.

Space we can recover; time never.

My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season.

We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.

If we screw it up, start over. Try something else.

Procrastination is hardly more evil than grasping impatience.

Giving up on our long-term goals for immediate gratification, my friends, is procrastination.

The habit of always putting off an experience until you can afford it, or until the time is right, or until you know how to do it is one of the greatest burglars of joy. Be deliberate, but once you've made up your mind -jump in.

In putting off what one has to do, one runs the risk of never being able to do it.