Quotes About Procrastination

If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all.

This tendency we all have to favor our present-self at the expense of our future-self is called temporal discounting.* We are willing to take an irrationally large discount to get a reward now instead of waiting for a bigger reward later.

Depuis vingt ans, je note « 58 » dans mes projets de livre. C'est le texte toujours manquant. Toujours remis. Le trou inqualifiable.

Don't start living tomorrow, tomorrow never arrives. Start working on your dreams and ambitions today.

One day's delay is another day's lack of progress.

Delay is the enemy of progress.

The thing that was most harmful was that there was always something that was about to happen. So I found myself indulging in the writer's luxury of doing another draft, another idea. If this project isn't happening, then I'll shelve one script and start writing another. And in that way, the years go by, and there's very little money coming in.

My computer is littered with abandoned projects.

It is easy to have a lot of paintings or projects hanging around that are 'almost done.'

And then I think they asked me to work on Wish You Were Here, which was the next album coming up. And I didn't do anything for a long time. I had other projects, and I didn't get around to doing anything for a bit.

Many Americans say they want to be organ donors, but they just don't get around to acting on their intentions. Helping these potential good Samaritans overcome their inertia could prolong thousands of lives a year.

I used to delay doing stuff that I just didn't want to deal with - things like putting the garden hose away properly or doing the dishes right after dinner. Now I have this little voice in my head that says, 'I know you don't want to do this, but just do it anyway.' In other words, there's far less stuff that I put off until tomorrow.

I'm pathologically incapable of making decisions. Just ask my wife how long it took me to propose - on second thought, best not to bring it up.

Which form of proverb do you prefer Better late than never, or Better never than late?

Mars hates those who delay; but if you fear the weight of arms, now then go forth unarmed

Jelly-bean is the name throughout the undissolved Confederacy for one who spends his life conjugating the verb to idle in the first person singular- - I am idling, I have idled, I will idle

We know that the book we will never write will be bad. Even worse will be the one we put off writing. At least the book that has been written exists.

peacefully ensconced in a small house on the outskirts of somewhere or other, enjoying a tranquillity in which I won't write the works I don't write now, and to keep on not writing them I'll come up with even better excuses than the ones I use today to elude myself.

Better to write than to dare live, even if living means merely to buy bananas in the sunlight, as long as the sun lasts and there are bananas for sale. Later, perhaps… yes, later…

Ai que prazer Nao cumprir um dever, Ter um livro para ler E não o fazer!

Pues bien, quizá la felicidad tenga que ver también con la habilidad o la sabiduría para retrasar el máximo tiempo posible esta desgana de vivir.

A veces darle demasiadas vueltas a lo que uno va a hacer nos paraliza.

Le meilleurde la vie se passe à dire: Il est trop tôt, puis Il est trop tard. The better part of life is spent saying: It's too early, and then It's too late.

I do have a lot of difficulty figuring out what I want to be working on, but what's the alternative? To be one of those people who has a million things they want to do, and then never does any of them? And then where will you be?