Quotes About Procrastination

I was wise, if you like, because I was prepared for death at any moment, but not because I had taken care of everything that was given to me to do, rather because I had done none of it and could not even hope ever to do any of it.

Forgive me for not having answered you right off, but I still have not developed the technique for making good use of my few hours; midnight comes apace, as now.

I was wise, if you will, because I was prepared to die at any moment, but this was not because I had taken care of everything I was required to do, but rather because I had done none of it and also couldn't hope ever to do any of it.

he spent many an hour in only the most superficial appearance of actual work

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

Don't wait. The time will never be just right.

In money, and in life, you are very often your own worst enemy. You promise yourself you're going to diet, then eat not one or two French fries but a whole plate. You decide to really commit to saving for retirement, only to wind up with a new pair of shoes in your closet.

Embrace the faff. Stare out of the window. Bend paperclips. Stand in the middle of the room trying to remember what you came downstairs for. Pace. Drum your fingertips. Move papers around. Hum. Look at the garden.

For me, fear manifests itself in snoozing and inactivity. I just become so sleepy, any time of day, when something needs to be done. I sometimes go days without responding to texts or reading books or being able to process much of anything beyond the sun slowly creeping through my living room windows.

I was the guy that would cram for everything, so I guess I was a bit of a slacker. I was a procrastinator. I spent a lot of all-nighters getting ready for tests.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Pick the one thing that you've really been putting off, that seems too big or too scary or too whatever, and do it this week. You might be very pleasantly surprised.

The problem with my mother is that she didn't go to the doctor. And I think by the time she started to show symptoms that something might not be right, and finally went to the doctor, she was so close to her death that she couldn't get the care she had needed. Her big issue was not going to the doctor.

The same people who never did their homework in high school are still doing that to this very day out in the real world.

sour taste of obligation postponed

If you get it out of the way, it leaves time for more interesting things," Angela said. "If you don't get it out of the way, then you feel distracted and a little guilty and the interesting things aren't nearly as interesting because you're worrying about what you should be doing rather than what you are doing.

Someday" ("someday I'll do this, someday I'll do that") is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you.

The longer you wait and put off the nice things you should do on a regular basis, the harder it is to do them, until finally you have to force yourself to be nice, to be thoughtful, and it isn't easy, because you're embarrassed about not having done those easy, nice things in a natural kind of way. Also, the people who you're nice to come to expect your regular niceness. That's it in a nutshell.

I'm writing a book on Procrastination. I hope to start it tomorrow. I've been thinking about it for almost six years now.

He believed "the leading rule"21 for any lawyer was "diligence." Lincoln counseled, "Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done today.… Whatever piece of business you have in hand, before stopping, do all the labor pertaining to it which can then be done.

I've heard that hard work never killed anyone, but I say why take the chance?

Just laying there in bed is like waiting for death and doing nothing about it.

La plupart des gens ne meurent qu'au dernier moment ; d'autres commencent et s'y prennent vingt ans d'avance et parfois davantage.

La plupart des gens ne meurent qu'au dernier moment ; d'autres commencent et s'y prennent vingt ans d'avance et parfois davantage.