Quotes About Procrastination

I'm a very spoiled writer. I need to be indolent, to waste a lot of paper. I'm inefficient.

The best advice is to get on with it. I'm very prone to falling into depressions - not clinical, just 'can't be bothered.' It's such a waste of time.

I think the worst and most insidious procrastination for me is research. I will be looking for some bit of fact or figure to include in the novel, and before I know, I've wasted an entire morning delving into that subject matter without a word written.

I waste most of the day, then finally start to write around 3 P.M., totally disgusted with myself for my wasteful nature.

I hate wasting time.

I collect watches because I'm always late, and I need to know exactly how late I'm going to be - in order to come up with a good excuse.

I love watching programmes about food. I always think, 'When I'm old, I'll take up baking.' There's something calming about watching the recipe and thinking, 'I'm going to make that' - and it's never going to happen.

We've observed that people who stall in their personal growth work often have counterproductive soft addictions that stand in their way of growth and having the life they say they want. It can be a simple thing, such as watching TV instead of finishing a project.

I can stay up watching TV so late.

The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before.

Procrastination gives you time to consider divergent ideas, to think in nonlinear ways, to make unexpected leaps.

I took a break to take care of a lot of stuff that I'd let go by the wayside for decades.

We cannot put off living until we are ready.

In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.

My weak spot is laziness. Oh, I have a lot of weak spots: cookies, croissants.

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

I'm not good at planning ahead because it's just too much. I plan, set it up and then don't think about it again until it's almost time. That's just how it goes.

I'll probably make loads of plans, and then just sit around on my bottom all day long and do nothing.

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

I always think that I have plenty of time for everything, and then the reality of it doesn't quite match up.

I have a problem getting all my laundry done, cleaning up and doing all of the normal daily things that a grownup should do.

I am really bad with cleaning my closet.

Without coffee, nothing gets written. Period.

I want to be a 'coffee guy,' but I just haven't started.