Quotes About Procrastination

Hard work is often the easy work you did not do at the proper time.

There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start.

I meant to do my work today But a brown bird sang in the apple tree And a butterfly flitted across the field And all the leaves were calling me.

Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes it.

Do not put off today's work for tomorrow.

I am a person who works well under pressure. In fact, I work so well under pressure that at times, I will procrastinate in order to create this pressure.

Never hide behind busy work. It takes just as much energy to fail as it does to succeed.

It's only work if somebody makes you do it.

If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work.

Okay, I'm lazy. But being lazy is a talent. Sometimes it takes an awful lot of work.

The Devil often finds work for them who find none for themselves.

I need eight hours to get maybe 20 minutes of work done. I had one of those yesterday: seven hours of self-loathing.

A procrastinators willpower lies in the fact that he keeps work pending because he strongly feels he wants to do the same – keep it pending.

I have a lot of hobbies and I can be very remiss in reminding myself to go down to the basement to work.

I am lazy, but for some reason, I am so paranoid that I end up working hard.

Never put off the work till tomorrow what you can put off today.

You've got work to do. Don't put this off. And don't take the long view, here. You know? Life is today and tomorrow and - and if you're lucky, next week.

Imagination only comes when you privilege the subconscious, when you make delay and procrastination work for you.

Llarimar had told him to do his best. That sounded like an awful lot of work. Unfortunately, doing nothing was beginning to seem like even MORE work.

The problem is I am both a procrastinator and a power junkie, so I am very frustrating to work with.

To a writer, an open browser tab is like a glass of whiskey. 1 or 2 can help the work. Too many ensures that nothing gets done.

I seldom try to probe the mystery of my sloth. I have squandered a gigantic fortune of work hours... seems likely that I'll go on squandering till the very end.

If you have to be at work at 8, it's always like, 7:54. Just enough time to do nothing. To just lay there and go, "I can't do anything! I can't even have an English muffin!

Listen, here it is: Technically, I never quit. I'm seven years late for work.