Quotes About Procrastination

We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort. We postpone and postpone until those smiling possibilities are dead... By neglecting the necessary concrete labor, by sparing ourselves the little daily tax, we are positively digging the graves of our higher possibilities.

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The next best time is now.

This is the great trap of life: One day rolls into the next, and a year goes by, and we still haven't had that conversation we always meant to have. Still haven't created that peak moment for our students. Still haven't seen the northern lights. We walk a flatland that could have been a mountain range. It's not easy to snap out of this tendency. It took a terminal illness for Gene O'Kelly to do it.

The psychologists Amos Tversky and Eldar Shafir offered college students a five-dollar reward for filling out a survey. When given a five-day deadline, 66% of the students completed the survey and claimed their rewards. When given no deadline, only 25% ever collected their money.

How wretched is the man who sees the perfect opportunity and still waits for a better one.

dawn was thinking about breaking, at the stage where it was rolling about under the sheets after its alarm had gone off, weighing up the pros and cons of getting out of bed.

laurig, shy of making decisions and happy to procrastinate.

If I was afraid that something bad would happen, why wait? Why not make it happen now?

I still can't believe that people I know, my peers, are making babies. I'm too lazy to make a salad.

Although a tirelessly productive author, Johnson considered himself disgracefully lazy—believing that only Presto, a dog belonging to his friend Hester Thrale, might truly be thought lazier.

Loose an hour and you cannot catch up in a year.

Thus ran his thoughts; he wanted to go to bed, but he felt loath to tear himself away from the book.

She said to herself: "No, just now I can't think of it, later on, when I am calmer." But this calm for thought never came; every time the thought rose of what she had done and what would happen to her, and what she ought to do, a horror came over her and she drove those thoughts away. "Later, later," she said—"when I am calmer.

Until then I had lived as I had painted and versified - that is, I never got far beyond priming canvas, beyond penning an outline, a first act, a first stanza. There are simply people who start all sorts of things and yet never finish any of them. And that was the kind of person I was.

There are always such people who begin everything but never finish, and I am such a one.

We spend our days in deliberating, and we end them without coming to any resolve.

Sometimes you just have to do things, Quentin," Julia said, as he climbed on board after her. "You spend too much of your time waiting.

Until then he'd worked hard, but he got in his share of malingering like everybody else.

We have our whole lives ahead of us and all I want to do is take a nap.

Quentin suppose her unfussy diligence reminded him unpleasantly of the future he was ignoring.

Human beings are the laziest creatures in the history of creation. We would rather not do anything if we could avoid it.

Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.

I use Tinder and I often match with girls but I never follow up.

One of the great challenges of our age, in which the tools of our productivity are also the tools of our leisure, is to figure out how to make more useful those moments of procrastination when we're idling in front of our computer screens.