Quotes About Procrastination

I am one of the great wasters of time. I have made it an art form. I can get up at 8 o'clock in the morning, be out of the house by 8:30 and back by 5 P.M., and I'll be going all day long and accomplish absolutely nothing. It's an amazing talent.

I always wanted to start a school. I talked about it in college - but I didn't do anything about it.

Procrastination is a way for us to be satisfied with second-rate results; we can always tell ourselves we'd have done a better job if only we had more time...If you're good at rationalizing, you can keep yourself feeling rather satisfied this way, but it's a cheap happy. You're whittling your expectations of yourself down lower and lower.

Procrastinators tend to buy self-help books about procrastination, then take them home, put them on a shelf, and never read them.

We always assume that there's tomorrow to make things right. Maybe that's why the Bible says to not procrastinate your day of repentance.

Those who fail to plan are planning to fail.

The assumption of time is one of humanity's greatest follies. We tell ourselves that there's always tomorrow, when we can no more predict tomorrow than we can the weather. Procrastination is the thief of dreams. Alan Christoffersen's diary

The assumption of time is one of humanity's greatest follies. We tell ourselves that there's always tomorrow, when we can no more predict tomorrow than we can the weather. Procrastination is the thief of dreams.

There's a Chinese saying. 'When is the best time to plant a tree? Twenty years ago.' " The Chinese engineer smiles. "Good one." " 'When is the next best time? Now.' " "Ah! Okay!" The smile turns real. Until today, he has never planted anything. But Now, that next best of times, is long, and rewrites everything.

Lose an hour in the morning, and you will be all day hunting for it.

Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.

Pierde una hora por la mañana y la estarás buscando todo el día

If you haven't written a novel by the time you're forty you never will!

What are you thinking?" I asked. "That we should've been doing this a long time ago.

People put their dreams off, either because they think it's impossible, or because they'll do it 'someday.'" He

It was small wonder, then, that he suddenly flung down his brush on the floor, said 'Bother!' and 'O blow!' and also 'Hang spring-cleaning!' and bolted out of the house without even waiting to put on his coat.

You're always busy, and you never do anything in particular; and when you've done it there's always something else to do, and you can do it if you like, but you much better not.

Can we talk now?" she asked. "Nay, we need to . . . load the dishwasher." He padded into the kitchen and took his time rinsing everything in the sink before stacking it into the machine. He even scrubbed the pot he'd warmed the soup in. When he closed the dishwasher, she was waiting there, holding a mop. She offered it to him. "Do you want to clean the floors now? And sweep the porch? I think the antlers on the moose head need polishing.

Assignments without deadlines are far better at producing guilt than stimulating action.

called Mathieu while he was in Paris, but had somehow failed to get around to it. "Okay. Well, thanks

You have to do it now. If you wait until morning, you'll lose heart.

The hour grows late. Late? So? Do you have to be on Ash Campus early tomorrow? At the University of Nothing Matters?

Faith is often the boast of the man who is too lazy to investigate.

All wastes stem from the waste of time…