Quotes About Procrastination

If something be not done, something will do itself one day, and in a fashion that will please nobody

the worst waste, that of time.

I was a very naughty kid, who'd say 'I'd write tomorrow.'

Creating anything new is incredibly difficult. It's just so much easier to sit on the couch and watch Netflix and just consume.

I'm a horribly chronic 'get half way through the book and start a new one' person.

When you live in New York City, you run up a long list of things you've been meaning to do.

I had a real computer solitaire problem. I'd gotten to the point where I had to win a game before I could write, and each time I got up to get a cup of water, I had to win a game. It was a nightmare.

I used to think that: whenever I heard that someone had taken 10 years to write a novel, I'd think it must be a big, serious book. Now I think, 'No - it took you one year to write, and nine years to sit around eating Kit Kats.'

It's not that I'm vain; I simply thought I had plenty of time, so I told Vivian I'd be ready to go in a few minutes.

For a full week after trying to reach the editor of The Atlantic, I occupied myself with other things. On October 31 I made some cheerful notes about Tracy Chapman's singing and about Bizet's Carmen. On the first of November I wrote at length about my ingrown toenail. But it just wasn't enough.

You just… you just don't do anything. You get lost in your head, and you sit around thinking instead of getting on with something, and most of the time you think rubbish.

That's the trick- is just as soon as you have an idea in life, do it and act on it. [...] Cause I can't tell you how many video ideas I've had die on the vine because I gave myself too long to think about them, and then overthought them; because the more time you put between you and working on an idea you have, the more opportunities you're giving yourself, giving your shit brain, to talk yourself out of it.

Lore, if you wait for the right moment, you'll wait forever.

A guerra não se evita, apenas se adia com vantagem para os outros

It occurred to me that if I stayed in bed much longer, I would be forced to watch a soap opera. That seemed redundant, so I got up and went to group.

Delay is an excuse. It's fear, not courage.

Maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do. The things you don't finish.

The voice says, maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do. The things you don't finish.

Doesn't reincarnation strike you as just another form of procrastination?

If you ask me, reincarnation is just another way to procrastinate.

The best way to waste your life is by taking notes. The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch.

People who don't want to do something that they know they should do have marvelously inventive abilities to ignore what they know. They

Academe was one of the last strongholds of the professional time-waster.

J'ai un faible pour les gens qui ne se décident pas à commencer quelque chose.