Procrastination Quotes - Page 9

Slaying the dragon of delay is no sport for the short-winded.

Creative avoidance is the type of procrastination that affects home business entrepreneurs the most. It is unconsciously filling our day with trivial, unimportant work.

I've been looking over the list of spring chores I made up last fall, and darned if they aren't fall chores, after all.

Eventually, time takes care of everything. The trouble with procrastination is that people give up on it too soon.

Waiting is a trap. There will always be reasons to wait. The truth is, there are only two things in life, reasons and results, and reasons simply don't count.

If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.

All delay is helpful, but it does produce wisdom.

Procrastination is the seed of self destruction.

Killing for pleasure is wrong and should be banned. Fox hunting, stag hunting and hare coursing are moral issues. It is time that we stood up for morality. The commandment Thou shall not kill may be hedged with exceptions.Thou shall not kill for pleasure is not; it is a commandment for the 21st century and it is time that we respected it unambiguously, without prevarication and without procrastination.

Don't put off till tomorrow what can be enjoyed today.

Is not he imprudent, who, seeing the tide making haste towards him apace, will sleep till the sea overwhelms him?

Procrastination also can be a way of self-handicapping: if you don't do a great job, you can always say to yourself, "If I'd only started sooner, I'd have been able to produce something excellent."

When the time is right, you just got to do it.

One element of maturity is the realization that we don't get away with anything. Any advantage gained or convenience taken, any private procrastination or insincerity, no matter how subtle or quick in passing, is paid for.

Imagination only comes when you privilege the subconscious, when you make delay and procrastination work for you.

Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement.

He who awaits much can expect little.

If we are to achieve long-range goals, we must learn to set up and accomplish short-range goals that will move us along the way. If we do not consciously select our goals, we may be controlled by goals not of our own choosing - goals imposed by outside pressures (such as the expectations of others) or by our habits (such as procrastination) or by our desire for the approval of the world.

Procrastinate now, don't put it off.

Procrastination isn't the problem. It's the solution. It's the universe's way of saying stop, slow down, you move too fast.

Procrastination is the kidnapper of souls and the recruiting-officer of hell.

People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now.

If you ask me, reincarnation is just another way to procrastinate.

Procrastination is what we often call 'resistance.

Procrastination is attitude's natural assassin. There's nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task