Quotes About Procrastination

Because the truth of the matter is, most people don't finish things! Look around you, the evidence is everywhere: People don't finish. They begin ambitious projects with the best of intentions, but then they get stuck in a mire of insecurity and doubt and hairsplitting . . . and they stop. So if you can just complete something—merely complete it!—you're already miles ahead of the pack, right there.

Never put away your labors while the sun is high, Alma, with the hopes of finding more hours to work tomorrow—for you shall never have any more extra time tomorrow than you had today, and once you have fallen behindhand in your responsibilities, you will never catch up." So

Delay also has consequences," Kieri said. "Haste brings one set of hazards; delay, another.

I hope I number patience among my virtues, but shilly-shallying, when nothing is to be gained by delay, is not a virtue.

hope I number patience among my virtues, but shilly-shallying, when nothing is to be gained by delay, is not a virtue.

Its inscription, "Time waits for No Man," is an old punning device on the word gnomon. At

Time. I would have gone somewhere to buy time.

Half the world is waiting for some perfect time to start living their lives.

Quel soulagement d'avoir trouvé la solution des fiançailles! C'était une réponse liquide en ceci qu'elle ne résolvait rien et remettait le probléme à plus tard. Mais gagner du temps est la grande affaire de la vie.

But then, I just decided to get off my lazy butt and take advantage of the L.A. weather.

Like most writers, I find the Web is a wonderful distraction. Who doesn't need that last minute research before writing?

If you need five minutes every hour to look at tweets or to just surf the Internet, you need to schedule that into your schedule, allow yourself to do that. Because when people start procrastinating, what they've done is, they've tried to ignore that urge. They try to deny themselves time on Facebook or time surfing the web.

I spend much too much time on the Web with e-mail and surfing and reading my key sites, and a whole day can go by, and you wonder, 'What did I do today?'

In English, I never did the reading when it was assigned. If a paper was due on Friday, my attitude was, read half the book on Tuesday, the second half on Wednesday, and write the paper Thursday night. Sometimes, I'd just read the Cliff's Notes and skip the book altogether.

He who hesitates is poor.

I actively avoided responsibility for as long as I possibly could.

Don't ever postpone things - that was very clear in our family.

I found that pottering is very conducive to my creative process, so now, I find myself being incredibly creative because I've got such much to procrastinate with.

People who start habitually exercising tend on average to eat better. They also tend to use their credit cards less and procrastinate less.

It is not good to cross the bridge before you get to it.

I am constantly distracted by my own brain when I've completed a paragraph, realized I don't know what comes next, and start opening a browser tab without even realizing it.

Take care of difficult calls or emails as quickly as possible. Procrastinating just makes it harder; getting them done gives a big boost of relieved energy.

At some point, if you don't take care of the roads today, it's like any other maintenance issue: you're going to end up paying a lot more down the road.

It always takes longer than you expect, even if you take Hofstadter's Law into account.