Quotes About Procrastination

I am not the only person who uses his computer mainly for the purpose of diddling with his computer.

Consumers may put off buying a car, but they don't put off buying a vacation.

Hesitation is often like procrastination. One may have vague doubts and feel a need to mull things over; meanwhile, other issues intrude on thought, and no decision is taken. Ask people why they procrastinate, and you probably won't get a crisp answer.

Death cannot be avoided forever, but it can be postponed - in that respect it's very like the washing up.

Pero la indolencia, el descuido y las dilaciones en los pequeños deberes que tenía que llenar, me han hecho más daño que los grandes vicios.

We work for praise, and dawdle once we have it.

No more busy work. No more hiding from success. Leave time, leave space, to grow. Now. Now! Not tomorrow!

If I leave my computer, I'm probably not going to get back for hours. If I take a few minutes to answer questions and go web surfing, then guilt kicks in and I get back to work.

There's so much writing I could have done and so many ideas that I had and so many things I wanted to work on that I didn't. I like too much having things in my head rather than doing the work.

Resistance will tell you anything to keep you from doing your work.

Research can become Resistance. We want to work, not prepare to work.

Momentum is a fragile force. Its worst enemy: procrastination. Its best friend: a deadline (think Election Day). Implication no. 1 (and there is no no. 2): Get to work! NOW!

I dream too much, work too little.

Organizational busy work tends to expand to fill the working day.

I work best after the deadline has passed, when I'm in a panic.

I love to work, although sometimes I can spend whole days doing nothing more than picking the lint off the carpet and talking to my mother on the phone.

Hating hard work can get to be such an obsession that you won't let it pile up.

I am quite a slow writer. I can only work under pressure; I wait until the last minute.

Dead? No excuse for laying off work.

I can get lazy. I don't think I'm a very driven person. When I have work, I work very hard. But when I don't work, I really don't do anything. I could easily just fade away.

Lazy people always work harder than anyone else; they're so eager to get through and lie down again.

There is a - deep down, underneath all the work I do, I think there's a laziness in me.

I am the laziest man in the world. I invented all those things to save myself from toil.

Laziness means more work in the long run.