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Quotes About Procrastination

He who waits for a chance may wait for a long time.
~ Nigerian proverb
No one except your husband knows of the cautiousness at the heart of your life. Your adulthood has been a progressive retreat from curiosity and wonder, an endless series of delays and procrastinations. You wanted to be so much, once, but life kept on getting in the way... You settled. Shunned creativity, flight, risk, never had the courage to give a dream, any dream, a go.
~ Nikki Gemmell
And at such moments his eyes would grow winning, and his features assume an expression of intense satisfaction. Yet never did these projects pass beyond the stage of debate. Likewise there lay in his study a book with the fourteenth page permanently turned down. It was a book which he had been reading for the past two years!
~ Nikolai Gogol
Procrastination is the enemy of time and results in lost opportunity.
~ Unknown
The really happy people are those who have broken the chains of procrastination, those who find satisfaction in doing the job at hand. They're full of eagerness, zest, productivity. You can be, too.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
It's bad enough wasting time without killing it.
~ Norton Juster
Neymi? efendim? Hiçbir i?in sonunu getirmemi?im. Siz ba?lamay? bile göze almad?n?z.
~ Unknown
Turgut, s?k?nt?l? oldu?u zamanlar sorulara cevap vermez, bu kartlardan birini uzat?rd?: Daha gelmedi Bir de kantine bak Bugün yeni f?kra yok Ben ne bileyim ulan (en çok kullan?lan kart)
~ Unknown
To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead.
~ Og Mandino
It's a tendency to be sybaritic, to live in a state of mild semiconsciousness, to fritter your life away on petty pleasures, to dislike effort and be devoid of any penchant for competition. Long mornings, unopened letters, things put off for later, abandoned projects. A dislike of any authority and a refusal to submit to it, going your own way in a taciturn, idle manner. You could say such people are of no use at all.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.
~ Olin Miller
Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
Take yourself by the scruff of the neck and shake off your incarnate laziness.
~ Oswald Chambers
Delay is a great procuress.
~ Ovid
Resist beginnings; the prescription comes too late when the disease has gained strength by long delays.
~ Ovid
We struggle with a seditious inner voice that says, "You're wasting time. Get up and do something with your life.
~ Unknown
Peg was involved in a common form of senior-year panic that caused its victims to exhibit permanent distraction and to take up residence in the library.
~ Pamela Dean
Let's save tomorrow's troubles for tomorrow.
~ Patricia Briggs
Let's save tomorrow's troubles for tomorrow.
~ Patricia Briggs
I didn't ask what you'd said about it," the frog snapped. "I asked what you're going to do. Nine times out of ten, talking is a way of avoiding doing things.
~ Patricia C. Wrede
Nine times out of ten, talking is a way of avoiding doing things.
~ Patricia C. Wrede
It always gets late with you. - Is that a compliment?
~ Patricia Highsmith
Unstructured time, a heavy responsibility for self-direction, and high demands for excellence seem to be the common elements in these situations that are easy triggers for addictive behaviors. Procrastination
~ Unknown
In summary, procrastination may arise from problems in each of the nine executive functions—(1) inhibition, (2) self-monitoring, (3) planning and organization, (4) activity shifting, (5) task initiation, (6) task monitoring, (7) emotional control, (8) working memory, and (9) general orderliness.
~ Unknown