Quotes about procrastination
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 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 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’. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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 opportunity slips
Deliberando saepe perit occasio [The opportunity often slips away while we deliberate on it]. Publilius Syrus
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 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 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.
procrastination today tomorrow
If you are not ready today, you will be even less so tomorrow. Ovid
procrastination ifs-and people
If and perhaps.... The language of procrastination and uncertainty. That's just people looking to justify their own lack of action. John Flanagan
procrastination purpose deathbed
Our good purposes foreslowed are become our tormentors upon our deathbed. Joseph Hall
procrastination body characteristics
Procrastination in the beginning and precipitation towards the conclusion is the characteristic of such bodies. James Madison
procrastination giving looks
Procrastination always gives you something to look forward to. Joan Konner
procrastination doors monkeys
Once I finished, I got that procrastination monkey off my back! And I started seeing doors opening. Eric Thomas
procrastination safety way
Prudence is not hesitation, procrastination, or moderation. It is not driving in the middle of the road. It is not the way of ambivalence, indecision, or safety. John Ortberg
procrastination degrees paranoia
I have an advanced degree in procrastination and another one in paranoia. Joanne Harris
procrastination addiction drug
Addictive behavior is kind of the inverse of procrastination: procrastination is about not being able to do what you want to do, addiction about not being able to not do what you don't want to do (drink, use drugs, etc.) James Surowiecki
procrastination feelings different
One of the problems that exacerbates procrastination is the feeling that you have lots of different things to do and no clear sense of which matter more, when they should be done, etc.
procrastination thinking years
I do think that procrastination evolved in humans for good reasons. If you're trying to stay alive as a human being on the savanna 20,000 years ago, worrying about what's right behind that bush is a lot more important than worrying about what might happen three weeks from now.
procrastination thinking connections
I think there is clearly a connection between free time and procrastination. The more you have of the former, all things being equal, the more likely you are to procrastinate.