Quotes About Procrastination

I was in a hurry, because packing is something which you always do at the last minute. Anyone who packs two days before departure should seek counseling.

In another study, chronic procrastinators who set a specific time to complete a task were eight times as likely to follow through.

Why are you in such a rush?" Sophia asked, and her grandmother answered that it was a good idea to do things before you forgot that they had to be done.

And if one doesn't dare to do something immediately then one never does it.

Dreams aren't deferred. They don't just get deferred, either. Someone defers them. You defer them. You make a choice and put off something you dream of doing. "A dream deferred" is a copout, an escape from blame.

There's a medical term for it, actually. It's called Hugh Grantism. You spend so long faffing around trying to do the correct thing that the chance to do anything at all just slips you by.

Brian's Law. The longer you wait to write a thank-you note, the longer it must be.

People commonly use the word 'procrastination' to describe what they do on the Internet. It seems to me too mild to describe what's happening as merely not-doing-work. We don't call it procrastination when someone gets drunk instead of working.

Lying on a flat, sun-heated rock to get my breath, procrastinating, I soon abandoned my effort to get to the top of Cerro Potosí.

One day you will wake up & there won't be any more time to do the things you've always wanted. Do it now.

One day you will wake up and there won't be any more time to do the things you've always wanted. Do it now.

If you start to revise before you've reached the end, you're likely to begin dawdling with the revisions and putting off the difficult task of writing.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone

Procrastination is like a credit card: it's a lot of fun until you get the bill.

Procrastination is attitude's natural assassin. There's nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task

normal person's weekly chore list: 1. clean kitchen. 2. clean bathroom. 3. clean entire rest of domicile. cleaning impaired person's weekly chore list: 1. don't get peanut butter on sheets.

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

One missed e-mail, untracked commitment, or decision avoided can have hugely magnified consequences.

There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the real labor of thinking. —THOMAS EDISON

It's fine to decide not to decide about something. You just need a decide-not-to-decide system to get it off your mind

Trying to keep a list on the calendar, which must then be reentered on another day if items don't get done, is demoralizing and a waste of time.

Things rarely get stuck because of lack of time. They get stuck because what "doing" would look like, and where it happens, hasn't been decided. In

Your Mind Doesn't Have a Mind of Its Own At least a portion of your mind is really kind of stupid, in an interesting way. If it had any innate intelligence and logic, it would remind you of the things you needed to do only when you could do something about them.

many people let themselves get sucked into the second activity—dealing with unplanned and unexpected things that show up—much too easily, and let the other two slide, to their detriment. It is often easier to get wrapped up in the urgent demands of the moment than to deal with your in-tray, e-mail, and the rest of your open loops.