Quotes About Procrastination

Today is the tomorrow we feared yesterday.

College is good discipline. That's what I learned there: pull an all-nighter, get it done, and get an A. I'm the biggest procrastinator, and I learned how to be an efficient procrastinator.

'Purple Plumeria' I dithered over for months and then wrote the whole thing between the beginning of July and end of August. The dithering and procrastination time was three times the writing times.

Sometimes you buy a book, powerfully drawn to it, but then it just sits on the shelf. Maybe you flick through it, the ghost of your original purpose at your elbow, but it's not so much rereading as re-dusting. Then one day you pick it up, take notice of the contents; your inner life realigns.

I hate not working. It's that lack of purpose. It becomes very easy to lie in until midday.

One, I push my deadlines closer than anybody else, or let's say it this way: I'm really late.

We know we need bosses and deadlines to help us get work done. But sometimes we can also use an external push to make us have a good time. In both cases, our future self will appreciate the help.

There was a lot of procrastination on Cameron's part because of the personal nature of 'Almost Famous.' There was a lot of deep, dark doubt about even doing it. I don't mind being a cheerleader, but I did reach my limit quite a few times. I do my own writing, so I understand, but I was pushed to the point of anger with the insecurity of it.

I tend to be a lazy actress, unless I'm pushed.

Sadly, I'm one of those people who emotionally puts things off and then gets caught very blindsided at the end.

I like efficient people. I'm pretty impatient, so I can't stand people who putter around.

If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.

By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.

I put off writing the first Left Behind book for a year because I got invited to assist Billy Graham in his memoirs, and had we known what we were putting off for a year, we might not have put it off.

There's always a reason not to do anything... to flee the need to make decisions.

I go up to my office and sit down in front of my computer and turn on the internet and then I don't work - that's the end of work for the day.

I think I was a bit frightened of having to be a grownup and tried to put that off for as long as I could.

I'm a full-time writer, which means I have the entire day to get my work done. But that can also be bad, because that means I have the entire day to get in my way.

She'll probably have all the work made up and a dozen stories written for The Oracle before I finish that one stupid book report on Moby Dick. I mean, Todd, who really cares about whales?' Todd did, but he let the comment slide by.

Delay is as dangerous as the wrong answer.

The worst products of what I'm describing are almost basket cases—can't make decisions about anything, or leave them until the last possible second and then leap at them like desperate animals.

There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

How many days have again gone silently by; today is 28 May. Have I not even the resolution to take this penholder, this piece of wood, in my hand every day? I really think I do not. I row, ride, swim, lie in the sun.