Quotes About Procrastination

Tice and Baumeister (1997) found that procrastinators not only received lower grades but also got sick more and had more visits to health clinics than nonprocrastinators.

Can anything be more absurd than that the nearer we are to our journeys end, we should lay in the more provision for it?

He's not lazy. He's just highly inefficient.

Admit nothing - that was his first rule. Appeal to logic - second rule. Delay the inevitable - third rule.

If I didn't have a job, I might have stayed in bed until I rotted.

She kept going: why put it off? Yes, why put it off? she asked herself. And her question was solid, demanding a serious answer.

If you defer investing your time and energy until you see that you need to, chances are it will already be too late.

Two o'clock already! High time for a woman of letters who has turned out badly to go to sleep.

As he lay abed on Sunday, 21 September, Morse was beset by the nagging feeling that there was so much to be done if only he could summon up the mental resolve to begin.

The only way of catching a train I ever discovered is to miss the one before. G. K. Chesterton

As he lay abed on Sunday, 21 September, Morse was beset by the nagging feeling that there was so much to be done if only he could summon up the mental resolve to begin. It was like deferring a long-promised letter; the intention lay on the mind so heavily that the simple task seemed progressively to assume almost gigantic proportions.

He who hesitates is lost. There is no real truth in that statement, of course. Any kind of a generalisation is more or less half-baked, including this one. Truth of necessity requires the exposition of both of two opposing points of view.

Never procrastinate. Never say you'll do it tomorrow or the next day. Slow workers never fill their barns. Neither do procrastinators. Diligence does the job.

Exactly," he says. "And look, Gregory, it's all very well planning what you will do in six months, what you will do in a year, but it's no good at all if you don't have a plan for tomorrow.

it's all very well planning what you will do in six months, what you will do in a year, but it's no good at all if you don't have a plan for tomorrow.

it's all very well planning what you will do in six months, what you will do in a year, but it's no good at all if you don't have a plan for tomorrow.

And look, Gregory, it's all very well planning what you will do in six months, what you will do in a year, but it's no good at all if you don't have a plan for tomorrow.

Imagination only comes when you privilege the subconscious, when you make delay and procrastination work for you.

we don't have trouble overcoming procrastination because we're weak, but because it is duplicitous.

Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today.

If you have dreams you want to pursue, the time is now. There is no perfect time, and there is no better time. There is only the time you lose while you're making excuses.

Implicit in sloth is the unwillingness to exert oneself in the performance of duty because of the sacrifice and effort required.

Înclinarea spre lene - desfrâul sufletelor poetice.

But I was going to see a psychiatrist. I was going to tell him. I just never got around to it, and then I just kept thinking I could fix it myself.