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Quotes About Procrastination

The average man won't really do a day's work unless he is caught and cannot get out of it. There is plenty of work to do if people would do it.
~ Henry Ford
Writer's block is a phony, made up, BS excuse for not doing your work.
~ Jerry Seinfeld
I like leaving things to the last possible minute, then letting blind panic be my stimulus.
~ Richard Herring
As soon as I start reading, drawing comes to me more easily. I find I work in my sketchbooks more. But if I'm working on a new show, my reading completely stops except when I'm on a plane. I take a stack of New Yorkers with me. I feel awful about those stacks of New Yorkers.
~ Barry McGee
Dad was that one person who, no matter what he did in life, he just took it by storm, and he was so passionate and just really lived in the moment. Whatever the opposite of a procrastinator is, that was him... and I think I kind of inherited a little bit of that.
~ Bindi Irwin
When we said we were going to do something "directly," which is pronounced "dreckly," we meant that we were going to get to it sooner or later, one of these days, maybe never, and please don't ask again.
~ Timothy B. Tyson
Being busy is most often used as a guise for avoiding the few critically important but uncomfortable actions.
~ Timothy Ferriss
Don't save it all for the end. There is every reason not to.
~ Timothy Ferriss
Tomorrow becomes never. No matter how small the task, take the first step now!
~ Timothy Ferriss
Someday" is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you. Pro and con lists are just as bad. If it's important to you and you want to do it "eventually," just do it and correct course along the way.
~ Timothy Ferriss
Parkinson's Law dictates that a task will swell in (perceived) importance and complexity in relation to the time allotted for its completion. It
~ Timothy Ferriss
Lose an hour in the morning, chase it all day."—a Yiddish saying, author unknown
~ Timothy Ferriss
Time is wasted because there is so much time available.
~ Timothy Ferriss
Someday" is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you.
~ Timothy Ferriss
Being busy is a form of laziness—lazy thinking and indiscriminate action. Being busy is most often used as a guise for avoiding the few critically important but uncomfortable actions.
~ Timothy Ferriss
There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do. —BILL WATTERSON,
~ Timothy Ferriss
Am I going be the kind of guy who doesn't exercise ever? Or not? And if the answer is 'not,' then why not right now?
~ Timothy Ferriss
I wish I would have known that there was no need to wait.
~ Timothy Ferriss
Someday' is disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you..
~ Timothy Ferriss
Parkinson's Law dictates that a task will swell in (perceived) importance and complexity in relation to the time allotted for its completion. It is the magic of the imminent deadline.
~ Timothy Ferriss
This book is for anyone who is sick of the deferred-life plan and wants to live life large instead of postpone it.
~ Timothy Ferriss
Of the many, many excuses people use to rationalize why they can't do something, the excuse "I am too busy" is not only the most inauthentic, it is also the laziest. I
~ Timothy Ferriss
Conditions are never perfect. "Someday" is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you. Pro and con lists are just as bad. If it's important to you and you want to do it "eventually," just do it and correct course along the way.
~ Timothy Ferriss
Przyklej na ekranie komputera samoprzylepn? karteczk? lub ustaw w Outlooku przypomnienie dotycz?ce tego, by co najmniej trzy razy dziennie zadawa? sobie pytanie: "Czy nie wyszukuj? sobie zaj?? tylko po to, by unikn?? tego, co wa?ne?
~ Timothy Ferriss