Quotes About Procrastination

Holes in socks are sorta like sin, Josh. If you don't tend to them right away when they're small and controllable, they grow with amazing speed.

Because if you're trying to write and you have unlimited time, you can procrastinate an unlimited account, but if you have limited time, you rush to the page trying to get something down in the little bit of fragment of time that you have, and you may write a great deal that way.

The essence of procrastination lies in not doing what you think you should be doing, a mental contortion that surely accounts for the great psychic toll the habit takes on people. This is the perplexing thing about procrastination: although it seems to involve avoiding unpleasant tasks, indulging in it generally doesn't make people happy.

Generally I get up at around 7. But oftentimes, I'll be lolling in bed a little bit earlier - sometimes as early as 5:45 - filing in my mind all the things I have to get done. Which is, of course, totally unproductive.

I've seen guys sit the whole day doing nothing, and I hate it when people are unproductive. I don't like a guy who sits on the couch all day.

I am a world expert on how to organise tasks in a senseless order, totally unrelated to priority, and thus create a massive panic leading up to an important deadline.

I hate last-minute shopping, it's always unsuccessful.

Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75.

You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come.

When I feel like exercising I just lie down until the feeling goes away.

Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today.

My problem with present buying is usually lack of time. Not because I'm super-busy, I'm just super-lazy. I leave everything to the last minute and end up running up and down the high street on Christmas Eve like a crazed baboon.

Procrastination usually results in sorrowful regret. Today's duties put off until tomorrow give us a double burden to bear the best way is to do them in their proper time.

Procrastination is the thief of time.

The devil finds work for idle hands.

The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.

I need so much time for doing nothing that I have no time for work.

Farming, if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work.

Now I'm a pretty lazy person and am prepared to work quite hard in order to avoid work.

Laziness is the mother of all evils.

A writer's work is the product of laziness.

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase "It is the busiest man who has time to spare."

The greatest weariness comes from work not done.

There are a million ways to lose a work day, but not even a single way to get one back.