Quotes About Procrastination

I do laundry, but my bags from the last race will sit there until the very last minute that I have to do laundry again.

Of all the cankers of human happiness, none corrodes it with so silent, yet so baneful, a tooth, as indolence," he told one of his daughters.24 Time spent at study was never wasted. "Knowledge," Jefferson said, "indeed is a desirable, a lovely possession.

The following afternoon, alone in their room, and oppressed by not yet having made the promised call to Connie...

her life was already so fraught with unpleasantnesses that she'd adopted the strategy of delaying encounters with them as long as possible, even when the delay made it likely that they would be even more unpleasant when she did encounter them.

The one thing everyone in the Republic had plenty of was time. Whatever you didn't do today really could be put off until tomorrow.

Los sueños se van desechando y los que quedan se dejan para después. Si uno no se pone en la tarea de realizarlos, el castillo se desmorona sin siquiera haberlo construido.

All our lives we postpone everything that can be postponed; perhaps we all have the certainty, deep inside, that we are immortal and sooner or later every man will do everything, know all there is to know.

But then, all our lives we postpone everything that can be postponed; perhaps we all have the certainty, deep inside, that we are immortal, and that sooner or later every man will do everything, know all there is to know.

La cosa certa è che viviamo rimandando tutto ciò che può essere rimandato; forse tutti sappiamo che siamo immortali e che prima o poi, ogni uomo farà ogni cosa e saprà tutto

Nuestra cobardía y nuestra desidia tienen la culpa de que el mañana y el ayer sean iguales

Lo cierto es que vivimos postergando todo lo postergable; tal vez todos sabemos profundamente que somos inmortales y que tarde o temprano, todo hombre hará todas las cosas y sabrá todo.

They always take longer than you think.

Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.

I love writing, but hate starting. The page is awfully white and it says, 'You may have fooled some of the people some of the time but those days are over, Giftless. I'm not your agent and I'm not your mommy: I'm a white piece of paper. You wanna dance with me?' and I really, really don't. I'll go peaceable-like.

I avoid writing until I can't avoid it anymore. Until writing comes knocking at my door like a friend I've neglected.

I am so behind that yesterday catches up with tomorrow.

It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you.

The people who wait until the last minute are so busy goofing off that they don't have any new ideas. And on the flip side, the people who race in are in such a frenzy of anxiety that they don't have original thoughts either.

Pre-heat the oven? Really? If I was the sort of person who planned ahead, I wouldn't be eating this Totino's Party Pizza in the first place.

Between the great things we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing.

I don't have ADD, but I only like to pay attention to the things I like to pay attention to, and things like getting a TV and getting the cable working are beyond me, and so I let such things lapse, sometimes for years. This applies to keeping my apartment clean.

Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all.

When a man does a household job, he goes through three periods: contemplating how it will be done; contemplating when it will be done; and contemplating.

The biggest mistake we make is to think we have all the time in the world.