Quotes About Procrastination

One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.

He dithered but never dallied.

If he went any slower, it would be Monday by the time he got there," said Josh. "If he went any slower, the Malloys could be moved out and back to Ohio," Wally observed.

But we also need to be careful about turning too easily and exclusively to our junk. To television, to the Internet. To movies, sports, and hobbies. To numbing wastes of time, if not to shameful lacks of self-control. Let's be honest, sometimes it's just easier to shop than to deal with our lives.

We get so busy that it's easy to let some things slide. We can either pick them up again, or let them stay lost.... I never thought about knitting like that, though.

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

No matter how much one knows that something dreadful is going to happen in the future, one somehow never thinks it will be today.

I'm the kind of person who will set time aside to do something and then do everything but that thing.

In the Army, I was very good at avoiding my job!

I'm always running late - it's my downfall.

Something I should have achieved quite easily took me a long time to get around to.

No time for your health today, will result in no health for your time tomorrow.

'Tis the voice of the sluggard; I heard him complain,"You have wak'd me too soon, I must slumber again."

Be slow in deliberation, but be prompt to carry out your resolves

He who begins many things finishes but few.

Haggai preached to a people with whom we might secretly sympathize: they were so preoccupied with paneling their own homes that they forgot that the house of the Lord was in ruins. All of which is to say, distraction comes easily, in many forms, and it happens to the nicest people.

Procrastination, the thief of time, is one of the devil's most potent weapons for defrauding us of eternal heritage. The

Short cuts make long delays.

Dont do today what you could put off till tomorrow.

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon-instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon — instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

Worn out by suffering, we lie on our great backs, tossing grass up to heaven—as a distraction, not a prayer. That's not humility you see on our long final journeys it's procrastination. It hurts my heavy body to lie down. — Dan Chiasson, from "The Elephant," Natural History . (Knopf; First edition. edition October 11, 2005)

Cats are dangerous companions for writers because cat watching is a near-perfect method of writing avoidance.