Quotes about procrastination
procrastination problem break
If you procrastinate when faced with a big difficult problem... break the problem into parts, and handle one part at a time. Robert Collier
procrastination firsts fearlessness
The first is based in fear, the second in fearlessness. Rhonda Britten
procrastination labor lingering
Lingering labors come to naught. Robert Southwell
procrastination home greatness
If you wait until all the lights are 'green' before you leave home, you'll never get started on your trip to the top. Zig Ziglar
procrastination practice hatred
Such is our impatience, such our hatred of procrastination, to everything but the amendment of our practices and the adornment of our nature, one would imagine we were dragging Time along by force, and not he us. Walter Savage Landor
procrastination writing hands
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. Walter Mosley
procrastination men truth-is
The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things. Jorge Luis Borges
procrastination names forgiving
Procrastination is not Laziness", I tell him. "It is fear. Call it by its right name, and forgive yourself. Julia Cameron
procrastination way may
We can be of so much service to others in many thou-shalt ways. Of course, the problem is that rendering such service takes time, and we are all so busy. Some situations may call for service that somehow seems to be beneath us. Besides, we have other things to do. The thou shalts are so convenient to put off. Who will notice the procrastination anyway? After all, we are not robbing a bank. Or are there forms of withholding that constitute stealing? Neal A. Maxwell
procrastination laziness
How soon 'not now' becomes 'never'! Martin Luther King, Jr.
procrastination civilization too-late
We are faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words ‘Too Late’.
procrastination frustrated half
half the good intentions of my life have been frustrated by my unfortunate habit of putting things off till to-morrow. Maria Edgeworth
procrastination late stop-procrastination
Those who are late will be punished by life itself. Mikhail Gorbachev
procrastination opportunity slips
Deliberando saepe perit occasio [The opportunity often slips away while we deliberate on it]. Publilius Syrus
procrastination
Deliberando saepe perit occasio
procrastination delay doe
All delay is helpful, but it does produce wisdom.
procrastination tomorrow procrastinator
I never put off till tomorrow what I can do the day after. Oscar Wilde
procrastination deliberation our-lives
We pass our life in deliberation, and we die upon it. Pasquier Quesnel
procrastination folly commit
of all the follies that we can commit, the greatest is to hesitate. Letitia Elizabeth Landon
procrastination hateful affair
In the conduct of almost every affair slowness and procrastination are hateful Marcus Tullius Cicero
procrastination years waiting
It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the master work. Now, I'm beginning what I could have started ten years ago. But I'm happy at least that I didn't wait twenty years. Paulo Coelho
procrastination too-late grows
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it. Quintilian
procrastination years thousand
Do not act as if you had a thousand years to live. Marcus Aurelius
procrastination thinking years
Think of all the years passed by in which you said to yourself "I'll do it tomorrow," and how the gods have again and again granted you periods of grace of which you have not availed yourself. It is time to realize that you are a member of the Universe, that you are born of Nature itself, and to know that a limit has been set to your time. Use every moment wisely, to perceive your inner refulgence, or 'twill be gone and nevermore within your reach.
procrastination plates cures
The best cure for procrastination is to have so much on your plate that procrastination is no longer an option. Tavi Gevinson
procrastination productive-work challenges
One of the great challenges of our age, in which the tools of our productivity are also the tools of our leisure, is to figure out how to make more useful those moments of procrastination when we're idling in front of our computer screens. Joshua Foer
procrastination reluctance
Reluctance to begin is quick to befriend procrastination. . . . Kate Morton
procrastination putting-things-off facts
I'm a big believer in putting things off, In fact, I even put off procrastinating. -Ella Varner Lisa Kleypas
procrastination people risk
Fear stops a lot of people. Fear of failure, of the unknown, of risk. And it masks itself as procrastination. Lisa Anderson
procrastination phones different-experiences
Distraction and procrastination come in a variety of flavors... when I'm distracted and I walk over and stare out the window, it's a very different experience than when I feed the distraction by cramming in a few emails or make a phone call.
procrastination
Postpone not your life. Ralph Waldo Emerson
procrastination starting-over waiting
If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late. Lee Iacocca
procrastination starting-over trying
If we screw it up, start over. Try something else.