Quotes About Procrastination

Sometimes I get lazy, I want to get rid of that.

Every day you don't do something, it makes it less likely that you will ever do something. So you've got to get started right away.

There're so many things I want to do, like become more media savvy. I am too lazy. But I'm making an effort.

We've been running a little behind schedule. But only by about 15 years or so.

I have learnt that I am incapable of packing the right amount of clothing, probably because I start 10 minutes before I'm supposed to leave, and that I truly hate airports.

What is it about the blank page that makes me want to hurl myself into a game of solitaire? I ask myself these kinds of questions while I'm playing solitaire.

I would never finish a painting if I didn't have a deadline.

I always assumed that the reason I've never run a marathon is because I haven't bought a pair of shorts and arrived at the start line.

When I start a new novel and find myself diverted by domestic activities, many of which I genuinely enjoy, I panic that I will never write another word.

Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.

Most of us know perfectly well what we ought to do; our trouble is that we don't want to do it.

Planning can be fun. If you hate planning, you're doing it wrong. Plan with a friend, make a map, embrace uncertainty, daydream, and go for a walk. Our ability to imagine, organize, and invent the future is a gift. Shift procrastination into playing with planning.

He who hesitates is lost, my friend.

that's the thing about urgent paperwork: the longer you leave it the less urgent it becomes.

He [Samuel Butler] made a practise of doing the forks last when washing up, on the grounds that he might die before he got to them. This is very much his principle of 'eating the grapes downwards', so that however many grapes you have eaten the next is always the best of the remainder.

I was already at an age when putting off anything was a bad idea.

Housework won't kill you, but then again, why take the chance?

Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance.

Sometimes, to be honest with you, our lyrics were written a day before the vocal had to be done.

'Tis the voice of the sluggard; I heard him complain, you have waked me too soon, I must slumber again.

There are two voices: the first says write; the second hardly speaks, but I know what he wants. And if I let him, nothing would get done. He hovers at the edges.

I'm responsible. I even did a commercial for MTV saying how I was going to register to vote. And I still haven't.

The only reason that it takes me seven years to do stuff is because I just don't really have a plan.

I am so lazy and sometimes will go as late as 9 A.M. to shoot.