Quotes About Procrastination

I don't like sitting around and not doing anything because that's the easiest way to get complacent and get lazy.

I have trouble with any kind of focus or concentrating, or getting anything done at all, really.

An awesome thing about starting your own business? There's no one there to tell you what to do! But that, you might quickly discover, is a double-edged sword. If you're not careful, you won't shower for four days straight, and you'll spend half your time researching 'girly, stylish office' on Pinterest instead of getting any real work done.

Eric Forman: Good morning! What's for breakfast? Red Forman: Good morning? It's 1:30 in the afternoon! Where have you been? Eric Forman: Well, I've spent all morning in bed. Reading. I thought 'Why get out of bed when you can read about people who did?' Red Forman: You're about to read a book that my foot wrote. It's called on the road to in your ass.

Sometimes I think they are writers who do not write. That "writers write" is meant to be self-evident. People like to say it. I find it is hardly ever true. Writers drink. Writers rant. Writers phone. Writers sleep. I have met very few writers that write at all.

My dinner's in an hour, and I don't want to waste time flopping around in a mire of inanities.

You might think, 'I've got time to follow my dreams.' You don't have time. Life is short. The current life expectancy is 24,869 days. While some of us will live more days and some fewer, either way you have only a precious number of days to live this life, and so you do not have time to put off your dreams. It is now or never. If you don't do it now, you will keep putting it off, and you'll never do it. The time is now!

Your biggest enemy, as I can attest from having worked with thousands of people just like you, is yourself. Without question, procrastination is the most common cause of financial failure.

If at any point you discover yourself hesitating, or being incongruent, or putting off until tomorrow something you could try now, or just needing some new choices, or being bored, glance over your right shoulder and there will be two madmen there, sitting on stools, insulting you.

I]f thou loiter when thou shouldst labour, thou wilt lose the crown. O fall to work then speedily and seriously, and bless God that thou hast yet time to do it; and though that which is past cannot be recalled, yet redeem the time now by doubling thy diligence (260).

this book has been written by a certifiably lazy man.

Social practices, and the laws that reflect them, often persist not because they are wise but because Humans, often suffering from self-control problems, are simply following other Humans. Inertia, procrastination, and imitation often drive our behavior. Once

I meant to do my work today but . . .

There's a Chinese saying. 'When is the best time to plan a tree? Twenty years ago.

When is the best time to plant a tree? Twenty years ago.

Best time to plant a tree? Twenty years ago." "Yep. And you always said the next best time was now." "Wrong. Next best time, nineteen years ago.

He waits too long, and time replies for him.

You can't do all your homework at the end.

they were dreamers who felt no urgency about bringing their dreams to fruition.

Having come to the conclusion that there was so much to do that she didn't know where to start, Mrs Fowler decided not to start at all. She went to the library, took Diary of a Nobody from the shelves and, returning to her wicker chair under the lime tree, settled down to waste what precious hours still remained of the day.

Delaying death is one of my favorite hobbies

You only delay your death. Delaying death is one of my favorite hobbies.

Most of us would rather read than write. There is always another article to read, one more source to track down, just a bit more data to gather. But well before you've done all the research you'd like to do, there comes a point when you must start thinking about the first draft of your report.

And it started to dawn on me, I suppose, that a lot of things I'd always assumed I'd plenty of time to get round to doing, I might now have to act on pretty soon or else let them go forever.