Quotes About Procrastination

You're cheating yourself out of today. Today is calling to you, trying to get your attention, but you're stuck on tomorrow, and today trickles away like water down a drain. You wake up the next morning and that today that you wasted is gone forever. It's now yesterday.

One of the best ways of avoiding necessary and even urgent tasks is to seem to be busily employed on things that are already done.

I envy people who can think, 'No, I'm not going to work today' when they have a huge pile of deadlines stacking up.

I'm too lazy and I like food and I like my free time too much to spend it working out!

You learn that you can never not work. If you really want to make it to the big leagues, there's no such thing as "I'll start this first thing Monday" - you gotta do it now.

Let us save the tomorrows for work.

I do not like work even when someone else is doing it.

Every night I vow to work out in the morning. For the past three years, however, I have always found an excuse not to.

I don't think of it as procrastination. I think of it as allowing my work to accumulate urgency.

It's easy to not work on my album. I go out to the cinema, catch up with friends, eat, watch "Curb Your Enthusiasm" - that sort of thing.

I try to procrastinate, if I can, productively, like I'll work on something else as procrastination. Or I take a walk. Because often I find, if you get out, more things come to you.

We postpone our literary work until we have more ripeness and skill to write, and we one day discover that our literary talent wasa youthful effervescence which we have now lost.

I wait till the last minute to do lyrics. I seem to work best that way - bummed out and under pressure. I often don't do my homework. But I'll always walk that extra mile.

I never work until I have a deadline. You have to fit so much in a given day that you just don't get serious until you know when the deadline is.

I've heard that hard work never killed anyone, but I say why take the chance?

Time wasters are life wasters

Until you fight the battle against time, you won't know how best to manage your time

Those who waste time eventually become wasted

Work begins when the fear of doing nothing at all finally trumps the terror of doing it badly.

...I have to go home and get a few things done. If I don't get out the Pledge soon, the dust bunnies are going to be leaving tracks on my furniture...

Work is the greatest thing in the world. So we should save some of it for tomorrow.

How much longer will you wait until you take a chance on yourself?

Every day you're not doing that thing you want to do (your dream), you're spending mental currency, your dream currency (time) on the wrong thing.

New Year's resolutions generally don't work for me. Or I don't work for them. I make them, like everyone else, but I can't think of one I have stuck to for more than 24 hours.