Quotes About Procrastination

Procrastination is the best action against putting an ankle bracelet on future.

There is no future in waiting for tomorrow.

The constant nagging in your mind of undone things pulls you out of the present--tethers you to a mind-set of the future so that you're never fully in the moment and enjoying what's now.

And imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.

Inaction and indecision in the present is because of fear of consequences of the future.

I've noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it's far enough in the future.

It is vain to be always looking toward the future and never acting toward it.

I'm not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about what they're going to do. I'm just going to do it. Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia.

The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you're finished.

If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done...

I only go to work on days that don't end in a 'y'.

Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

Facebook is starting to be like my fridge, I know nothing is there but I keep checking it anyway...

Our procrastination is fueled by our perfectionism. We get caught in the trap of thinking we don't have time to do it right. This is when we do nothing. Eventually the procrastination bites us hard and our homes become overwhelming.

Living people wait and see because they fool themselves that they have time.

Hay gente que no hace más que soñar y hay gente que no hace más que actuar, y ambas cosas son buenas y malas. La gente como Josey no tiene visión y la gente como yo no tiene impulso para pasar a la acción.

If you've ever binge-watched a season or two of a TV show on Netflix when you should be studying, or finishing an assignment, or going to sleep, you know how an appealing distraction can trigger a self-defeating choice.

We do not appreciate inertia's power over us. Given the choice, we prefer to do nothing

What's going on here? Why do our discipline and decisiveness fade at the end of the day, to the point where we opt to do nothing instead of doing something enjoyable or useful? It's not because we're inherently weak. It's because we're weakened. The

Polly was a writer of many deadlines. There were the ignorable deadlines, the not-to-be-taken-too-seriously deadlines: the deadlines-before-the-deadlines deadlines, and finally, the no-kidding-around deadlines. She set these various dates, she'd told him, to fool herself.

I know this sounds suspiciously like a rationale I had come up with to keep from doing something I didn't want to do anyway, but hey, I can't help that.)

If you can get today's work done today, but you do it in such a way that you can't possibly get tomorrow's work done tomorrow, then you lose.