PROCRASTINATION QUOTES II
quotations about procrastination
They who procrastinate and defer the business of life, in things in which it is in their power to effect, sink into stupid and abject slavery, and show themselves unworthy of the talents with which human nature is dignified.
SAMUEL CROXALL
attributed, Day's Collacon
Just do it! Doing today what shouldn't be left for tomorrow produces yesterdays devoid of regret. Procrastination is the devil in disguise.
GREG ASIMAKOUPOULOS
"Some of Life's Simple ABCs for Graduates", Chicago Daily Herald, June 6, 2016
The procrastinator is not only indolent and weak, but commonly false too.
LAVATER
attributed, Day's Collacon
Putting off an easy thing makes it hard. Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.
GEORGE HORACE LORIMER
Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son
What is deferred is not avoided.
THOMAS MORE
Utopia
Procrastination is a ring on every man's finger.
CAIUS VIBIUS TREBONIANUS GALLUS
attributed, Day's Collacon
How dangerous to procrastinate those momentous reformations which conscience is solemnly preaching to the heart.
JOHN FOSTER
The Life and Thoughts of John Foster
Procrastination is the foundation of all disasters.
PANDORA POIKILOS
Excuse Me, My Brains Have Stepped Out
Procrastination has been called a thief, the thief of time; I wish it were no worse than a thief. It is a murderer; and that which it kills is not time merely, but the immortal soul.
WILLIAM NEVINS
Earnest Appeals
Procrastination is your body telling you you need to back off a bit and think more about what you are doing.
JAMES ALTUCHER
attributed, "#MondayMotivation", PayScale, May 16, 2016
I'm an expert in procrastination, but the last thing I want you to think is that I'm incompetent, too. Because I'm actually pretty good at what I do.
NICHOLAS SPARKS
Safe Haven
As a writer, I need an enormous amount of time alone. Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box, watching infomercials. It's a matter of doing everything you can to avoid writing, until it is about four in the morning and you reach the point where you have to write. Having anybody watching that or attempting to share it with me would be grisly.
PAUL RUDNICK
attributed, Pinterest
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
W. M. LEWIS
attributed, Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing
Someday is not a day of the week.
PHIL MCGRAW
The 20/20 Diet: Turn Your Weight Loss Vision Into Reality
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
JEROME K. JEROME
Three Men in a Boat
Do you know what happens when you give a procrastinator a good idea? Nothing!
DONALD GARDNER
attributed, The Psychology of Procrastination
A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.
BILL WATTERSON
There's Treasure Everywhere: A Calvin and Hobbes Collection
The strangest thing about procrastination is that the only thing standing between you and the joy of completing your work is ... you.
MELISSA RAYWORTH
"Apps to keep you on task", Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, June 6, 2016
If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you'll find you've done it.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
attributed, Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing
I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.
DOUGLAS ADAMS
The Salmon of Doubt