Quotes about procrastination
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
Nothing so perilous as procrastination John Lyly
procrastination tasks unfinished
Nothing is more burdensome than an unfinished task. Jim Rohn
procrastination dull messages
If you do not act on a suggestion at first, you grow dull to its message. Robert Henri
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 productive-work productive-life
The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings. Thomas Sowell
procrastination caring unfinished-business
Unfinished business is our worst business. Perpetual procrastination must yield to perceptive preparation. Today we have a little more time to bless others-time to be kinder, more compassionate, quicker to thank and slower to scold, more generous in sharing, more gracious in caring. Russell M. Nelson
procrastination thinking creative
I think of myself as something of a connoisseur of procrastination, creative and dogged in my approach to not getting things done. Susan Orlean
procrastination labor lingering
Lingering labors come to naught. Robert Southwell
procrastination safety delay
Where duty is plain delay is both foolish and hazardous; where it is not, delay may be both wisdom and safety. Tryon Edwards
procrastination calling research
The scholar's greatest weakness: calling procrastination research. Stephen King
procrastination body characteristics
Procrastination in the beginning and precipitation towards the conclusion is the characteristic of such bodies. James Madison
procrastination firsts fearlessness
The first is based in fear, the second in fearlessness. Rhonda Britten
procrastination hands drug-use
Drug use and procrastination often go hand in tourniquet. Will Self
procrastination like-you should
A good procrastination should feel like you're inserting lots and lots of commas into the sentence of your life. Ze Frank
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 use born
Procrastination is One of those Excuses, Born of Fear, that we Use to Keep Ourselves Stuck Wayne Dyer
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 entering delay
The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences. Winston Churchill
procrastination done politics
Nothing was ever done so systematically as nothing is being done now. Woodrow Wilson
procrastination boredom community
If the world is a progressively realized community of interpretation, then either quadruplictity will drink procrastination or, provided that the nothing negates, boredom will ensue seldom more often than frequently. Woody Allen
procrastination opportunity
Procrastination has robbed us of too many opportunities. Sarah Ban Breathnach
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 resistance
Procrastination is what we often call 'resistance. William Peter Blatty
procrastination yes-you-can vocabulary
Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary: impossible. Robert H. Schuller
procrastination years long
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. Richard L. Evans
procrastination thinking worst-enemy
Momentum is a fragile force. Its worst enemy: procrastination. Its best friend: a deadline (think Election Day). Implication no. 1 (and there is no no. 2): Get to work! NOW! Tom Peters
procrastination service-culture poor
Procrastination is the beginning of poor performance. Ron Kaufman