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Quotes About Procrastination

how can I write about this when I am afraid of not having time to finish and of stirring up all these thoughts in vain?
~ Vladimir Nabokov
I have in my head many projects that were begun and interrupted at various times...I simply shall not pursue them if the time remaining before my execution is not sufficient for their ordelry conclusion.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
But how can I begin writing when I do not know whether I shall have time enough, and the torture comes when you say to yourself, Yesterday there would have been enough times - and again you think, If only I had begun yesterday...
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Dangerous, free time on your hands. You can only jerk off so often.
~ Larry Kramer
Laukti tuš?iai - tai atid?ti gyvenim?.
~ Lars Saabye Christensen
Look for wars to trim transition times. If you decide to do something, do it. You can lose thirty minutes or more puttering around the house, putting things away, getting distracted, and losing intensity before taking whatever action you decide to take.
~ Laura Vanderkam
I have also learned—through hard experience—that there is no virtue in putting something on a to-do list and then not doing it. It's just as not done as if it were never on the list in the first place, only now it's sitting there, mocking me in its undoneness.
~ Laura Vanderkam
No comiences a usar tu tiempo libre sin un plan porque, entonces, lo perderás mientras se te ocurre qué hacer", nos recomienda Huckabee.
~ Laura Vanderkam
Knock a few of these easy items off first, then look for ways to minimize more complicated time traps.
~ Laura Vanderkam
por lo general vuelvo a mi escritorio y, en lugar de iniciar mi día de trabajo, me siento tentada a servirme una taza de café y navegar sin rumbo por internet.
~ Laura Vanderkam
The British never seem to do anything until they've had a cup of tea, By which time it's too late.
~ Lauren Bacall
There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought
~ Laurence J. Peter
2. Not overcoming laziness and so forth
~ Chogyam Trungpa
There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start.
~ Charles Baudelaire
Knowledge without follow-through is worse than no knowledge at all. because if you're guessing and it doesn't work out you can just say, shit, the gods are against me. but if you know and don't do, you've got attics and dark halls in your mind to walk up and down in and wonder about. this ain't healthy, leads to unpleasant evenings, too much to drink and the shredding machine.
~ Charles Bukowski
My ambition is handicapped by laziness
~ Charles Bukowski
Sloth, if it has prevented many crimes, has also smothered many virtues.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.
~ Charles Dickens
My advice is, never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time. Collar him!
~ Charles Dickens
Never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.
~ Charles Dickens
My advice is, never do to-morrow what you can do to-day
~ Charles Dickens
The morning came, and they would start at noon. Noon came, and they would start at night. But nothing is eternal in this world; not even the procrastination of an American skipper; and at night all was ready.
~ Charles Dickens
There is an insidious tendency to neglect important tasks that do not have to be done today—or even this week.
~ Charles E. Hummel
Addiction, self-sabotage, procrastination, laziness, rage, chronic fatigue, and depression are all ways that we withhold our full participation in the program of life we are offered. When the conscious mind cannot find a reason to say no, the unconscious says no in its own way.
~ Charles Eisenstein