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Quotes About Procrastination

Doing nothing is not only a waste of energy—it often promotes decay and unnecessary complexity and stress.
~ David Allen
If you're waiting to have a good idea before you have any ideas, you won't have many.
~ David Allen
Between the time you woke up today and now, did you think of anything you needed to do that you still haven't done? Have you had that thought more than once? Why? It's a waste of time and energy to keep thinking about something that you make no progress on. And it only adds to your anxiety about what you should be doing and aren't.
~ David Allen
A task left undone remains undone in two places—at the actual location of the task, and inside your head. Incomplete tasks in your head consume the energy of your attention as they gnaw at your conscience. —Brahma Kumaris
~ David Allen
It's a waste of time and energy to keep thinking about something that you make no progress on. And it only adds to your anxiety about what you should be doing and aren't. Most
~ David Allen
The vast majority of people have been trying to get organized by rearranging incomplete lists of unclear things;
~ David Allen
The big problem is that your mind keeps reminding you of things when you can't do anything about them.
~ David Allen
The sense of anxiety and guilt doesn't come from having too much to do; it's the automatic result of breaking agreements with yourself.
~ David Allen
I often quoted a popular Chinese proverb when addressing our leaders: "The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The second best time is today.
~ David Cote
can't fix the roof when it's raining, and when the sun comes out the roof don't leak no more. The
~ David Drake
Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.
~ William Shakespeare
Better once than never, for never too late.
~ William Shakespeare
How art thou out of breath, when thou hast breath To say to me that thou art out of breath? The excuse that thou dost make in this delay Is longer than the tale thou dost excuse.
~ William Shakespeare
For goodness, growing to a plurisy, Dies in his own too much: that we would do We should do when we would; for this 'would' changes And hath abatements and delays as many As there are tongues
~ William Shakespeare
The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences.
~ Winston S. Churchill
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
~ Winston S. Churchill
Sin embargo, una guerra aplazada puede ser una guerra evitada.
~ Winston S. Churchill
We have always sent two-thirds of what was necessary a month too late.
~ Winston S. Churchill
He that will not when he may, When he will he shall have nay.
~ Winston S. Churchill
There is no merit in putting off a war for a year if, when it comes, it is a far worse war or one much harder to win.
~ Winston S. Churchill
I've wanted to write about them for a long while, but it's a tricky subject, always put off for later and perhaps worthy of a better poet, even more stunned by the world than I. But time is short. I write.
~ Wis?awa Szymborska
I've wanted to write about them for a long while, but it's a tricky subject, always put off for later and perhaps worthy of a better poet, even more stunned by the world than I. But time is short. I write.
~ Wis?awa Szymborska
I'm just lazy.
~ Woody Allen
Procrastination is like a credit card it's a lot of fun until you get the bill.
~ Christopher Parker