Quotes About Procrastination

Procrastination also increases stress. As things pile up, we begin to feel overwhelmed, which takes the joy out of our work. Bottom line: Procrastination is costly to all involved.

Looking back, the first symptom was a gradual decrease in his ability to concentrate at work. Naturally curious and active, he noticed an uncharacteristic tendency to procrastinate.

Fine writing, next to doing nothing, is the best thing in the world.

There is an old saying well begun is half done - 'tis a bad one. I would use instead, Not begun at all till half done; so according to that I have not begun my Poem and consequently (a priori) can say nothing about it.

You never waste your time. That's why I have to do it for you.

I was tops at the Scarlet O'Hara school of emotional distancing. I always thought about the uncomfortable stuff tomorrow, and, as everyone knows, tomorrow never comes.

The greatest failure of all is the failure to act when action is needed

Make a decision! Failure to act is often the biggest failure of all.

Stop putting it off! Procrastination breeds guilt, guilt breeds depression, and depression breeds failure.

I wanted to be a poet and/or an artist, but I was very lazy (frightened of failure, I guess) and drank too much.

If there was an award for laziness I'd probably send somebody else to pick it up for me.

I hate being the best procrastinator sometimes.

Take advantage of time before time takes advantage of you.

Most of the problems in life are because of two reasons: we act without thinking or we keep thinking without acting.

If you don't make the time to work on creating the life you want, you're eventually going to be forced to spend a LOT of time dealing with a life you DON'T want.

Any time you got nothing to do - and lots of time to do it - come on up.

He who hesitates is a damned fool.

I find that a decision to do something leaves me free, while a decision not to do something only leaves me surrounded with undone things and endless, exasperating chances of changing my mind.

I find that a decision to do something leaves me free, while a decision not to do something only leaves me surrounded with undone things and endless, exasperating chances of changing my mind. p.175 from "Giving Money in the Street

14. I have enjoyed telling people that I am writing a book about blue without actually doing it.

He who delays the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out.

speed is a way to prevent ourselves from having to deal with something we do not want to face.

Unless subjected to constant discipline the mental processes of the common sign types are apt to be scattered or non-eventuating. There is a distinct tendency to carry along unfinished business and to procrastinate in decision. If left to its own disorder, the mind may deteriorate into a tumbling ground for whimsies.

At the rate these illuminations appear, it will no doubt take me a long time to gather the material for even one single book. For my inspired double-- this phantom builder of sentences who maliciously impedes my work to dictate his clever discoveries-- always comes at those (infrequent) hours of his choosing, drafts (at best) three little pages, then goes away.