Quotes About Procrastination

I've got a stack of various tedious paperwork-type jobs to do, but few of them are urgent. Over the other side of the office, a couple of DCs are making piles of empty coffee cups and trying to knock them over by throwing a soft indoor rugby ball at them. There are yells of laughter when they succeed, more yells when they fail. I sometimes think it must be a lot easier to be a man.

If you wait until you got time to write a novel, or time to write a story, or time to read the hundred thousands of books you should have already read - if you wait for the time, you will never do it. 'Cause there ain't no time; world don't want you to do that. World wants you to go to the zoo and eat cotton candy, preferably seven days a week.

So with nothing to do but algebra, Vlad settled down in front of the television with controller in hand.

Scarlett O'Hara . . . I'll think about that tomorrow. XOXO,

The procrastinator is not only indolent and weak, but commonly false too.

Procrastination hurts almost any project, but it's murder on a travel journal. First

I'm sort of a pressure writer. If somebody says, "Stan, write something," and I have to have it by tomorrow morning, I'll just sit down and I'll write it. It always seems to come to me. But I'm better doing a rushed job because if it isn't something that's due quickly, I won't work on it until it becomes almost an emergency and then I'll do it.

It is most likely that I will die next to a pile of books I was meaning to read.

Young writers should read books past bedtime and write things down in notebooks when they are supposed to be doing something else.

Troublesome things tend to remain troublesome no matter how many times you do them, and that you should avoid doing them unless they are absolutely urgent.

If we keep waiting until we are ready, we will be waiting for the rest of your lives.

if you are a student you should always get a good night's sleep unless you have come to the good part of your book, and then you should stay up all night and let your schoolwork fall by the wayside, a phrase which means "flunk.

you are a student you should always get a good night's sleep unless you have come to the good part of your book, and then you should stay up all night and let your schoolwork fall by the wayside, a phrase which means "flunk.

If we wait until we're ready we'll be waiting for the rest of our lives

If you are a student you should always get a good nights sleep unless you have come to the good part of your book, and then you should stay up all night and let your schoolwork fall by the wayside, a phrase which means 'flunk'.

It is likely I will die next to a pile of things I was meaning to read.

Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized.

You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain.

The surest way to be late is to have plenty of time.

the more he did nothing, the less time he had to do anything.

what must be at last had better be soon.

There's always tomorrow." "Exactly," she said, finishing off her first doughnut, selecting a second. Maybe she wouldn't starve to death, she decided. Maybe she'd eat herself into obesity and explode. Death by doughnut.

I'm a firm believer in denial. My reasoning is why deal with unpleasantness today when you could get hit by a bus tomorrow. And if you procrastinate long enough, maybe the issue will go away.

When in dread, my rule was always to procrastinate.