Quotes About Procrastination

If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done.

Don't wait until regrets are your only option, make the changes and act before it's too late.

We procrastinate when we fear a threat to our sense of worth and independence, as a method of avoiding difficult situations.

Hoping and Wishing are excuses for not Doing.

It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end. —LEONARDO DA VINCI

as Sir Joshua Reynolds noted, "There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking.

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Eventually, time takes care of everything. The trouble with procrastination is that people give up on it too soon.

There is no daily chore so trivial that it cannot be made important by skipping it two days running.

It's hard to make up your bed while you're still sleeping in it. Hard to make up your mind for the same reason.

LeBlanc's law: Later equals never.

A stitch in time saves nine. The early bird catches the worm. Don't put off until tomorrow what you can do

A stitch in time saves nine. The early bird catches the worm. Don't put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

We've all looked at the mess we've just made and then have chosen to leave it for another day. We've all felt the relief of seeing our messy program work and deciding that a working mess is better than nothing. We've all said we'd go back and clean it up later. Of course, in those days we didn't know LeBlanc's law: Later equals never.

The feeling that we have endless time to complete our work has an insidious and debilitating effect on our minds. Our attention and thoughts become diffused. Our lack of intensity makes it hard for the brain to jolt into a higher gear. The connections do not occur. For this purpose you must always try to work with deadlines, whether real or manufactured.

The feeling that we have endless time to complete our work has an insidious and debilitating effect on our minds. Our attention and thoughts become diffused. Our lack of intensity makes it hard for the brain to jolt into a higher gear. The connections do not occur. For this purpose you must always try to work with deadlines, whether real or manufactured. Faced with the slenderest amount of time to reach the end, the mind rises to the level you require. Ideas crowd upon one another.

You are your own worst enemy. You waste precious time dreaming of the future instead of engaging in the present. Since nothing seems urgent to you, you are only half involved in what you do. The only way to change is through action and outside pressure.

I sense that I am dawdling in this narrative, having already reached my eighth roll of Hieratica, and need to speed it up a little, else either I shall die on the job, or you will be worn out reading.

I have never known anyone else, Egwene said to him, who will work so hard to avoid hard work, Matrim Cauthon.

First things first; take care of what can be done now before worrying too long over what might never be.

there were always five things that needed doing immediately and ten that should have been done yesterday.

but he never did seem to get around to reading the books he meant to read.

Whenever you find yourself avoiding something you know you should be doing, then the only thing to ask yourself is, "What's in it for me?" Be a little greedy. It's the best cure for laziness.