Quotes About Procrastination

Now I'm a pretty lazy person and am prepared to work quite hard in order to avoid work.

The reason most goals are not achieved is that we spend our time doing second things first" Robert J. McKain, inspirational writer

How soon 'not now' becomes 'never'!

My block was due to two overlapping factors: laziness and lack of discipline. If you really want to write, then shut yourself in a room, close the door, and WRITE. If you don't want to write, do something else. It's as simple as that.

The only place where housework comes before needlework is in the dictionary.

Schedule irreversible decisions for the last responsible moment, that is, the last chance to make the decision before it is too late.

The man who sleeps on a warning does not deserve one. What wait till tomorrow? I will go today?

My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season.

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.

We are born only once and cannot be born twice, and must forever live no more. You don't control tomorrow, yet you postpone joy. Life is ruined by putting things off, and each of us dies without truly living. —Epicurus, Principal Doctrines

This was the species whose main excuse for not doing something was 'if only I had more time'. Perfectly valid until you realised they did have more time. Not eternity, granted, but they had tomorrow. And the day after tomorrow. And the day after the day after tomorrow. In fact I would have to write 'the day after' thirty thousand times before a final 'tomorrow' in order to illustrate the amount of time on a humans hands.

How to get out of bed Wake up. Pick up phone. Stare at phone for 72 minutes. Sigh. Get out of bed. Alternatively, once in a while, try skipping stages two to four.

social networking generally involved sitting down at a nonsentient computer and typing words about needing a coffee and reading about other people needing a coffee, while forgetting to actually make a coffee.

What is resistance? It's that sluggish feeling of not wanting to do something that you know is good for you, it's the inclination to do something that you unabashedly know is not good for you, and it's everything in between. It's the desire and tendency to delay something you should be doing right now.

Resistance loves keeping us busy with anything but the one thing that will most help us grow.

If you believe you can accomplish everything by "cramming" at the eleventh hour, by all means, don't lift a finger now. But you may think twice about beginning to build your ark once it has already started raining

Do not postpone your problems, solve them now! Because tomorrow you might be weaker than today and there might arise additional problems! Unsheathe your sword now; forget tomorrow, time is now!

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

Bialystock: Leo - he who hesitates is poor!

Some people clean the fridge to avoid studying. I go to Brisbane.

In the immemorial style of young men under pressure, they decided to lie down for a while and waste time.

Consciously or unconsciously, you may choose to delay by burying yourself in other work or fool yourself into believing that the time isn't ripe to make the call. The result is what leadership thinkers have termed work avoidance: the tendency to avoid taking the bull by the horns, which results in tough problems becoming even tougher.1

If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?

Whatever you want to do, do it now. There are only so many tomorrows.