Quotes About Procrastination

He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.

We have not the time to take our time.

When you put off a task, you buy yourself time to engage in divergent thinking rather than foreclosing on one particular idea.

It's income tax time again, Americans: time to gather up those receipts, get out those tax forms, sharpen up that pencil, and stab yourself in the aorta

Human beings are amazing at finding ways to waste their own time.

There is no such thing as time management; there is only self-management.

People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

The future is like heaven-everyone exalts it but no one wants to go there now.

If you don't make a decision then time will make it for you and time will always side against you!

Indulge in procrastination, and in time yon will come to this, that because a thing ought to be done, therefore you can't do it.

Allow time and moderate delay; haste manages all things badly.

Once, after finishing a picture, I thought I would stop for awhile, take a trip, do things-the next time I thought of this, I found five years had gone by.

Also, I had not yet found out about time; I was still under the illusion that I had plenty of time - time for this, time for that, time for everything, time to waste.

As Hemingway wrote to Fitzgerald, describing the act of letter-writing: "Such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you've done something

I don't intend to shrink from the truth, because the longer it's postponed, the harder it will be for them to accept it when they do hear it!

Better a day too early than a day too late

Tampoco en el futuro le tendré miedo a la verdad, puesto que cuanto más se la pospone, tanto más difícil es enfrentarla.

en el futuro le tendré miedo a la verdad, puesto que cuanto más se la pospone, tanto más difícil es enfrentarla.

I don't think you have time to waste not writing because you are afraid you won't be good at it.

If you always dreamed of writing a novel or a memoir, and you used to love to write, and were pretty good at it, will it break your heart if it turns out you never got around to it? If you wake up one day at eighty, will you feel nonchalant that something always took precedence over a daily commitment to discovering your creative spirit? If not--if this very thought fills you with regret--then what are you waiting for?

There may be a Nurse Ratched-like listing of things that must be done right this moment: foods that must come out of the freezer, appointments that must be canceled or made, hairs that must be tweezed. But you hold an imaginary gun to your head and make yourself stay at the desk.

I can teach them little things that may not be in any of the great books on writing. For instance, I'm not sure if anyone else has mentioned that December is traditionally a bad month for writing. It is a month of Mondays. Mondays are not good writing days. One has had all that freedom over the weekend, all that authenticity, all those dreamy dreams, and then your angry mute Slavic Uncle Monday arrives, and it is time to sit down at your desk.

I don't think you have time to waste not writing because you are afraid you won't be good enough at it...

Why is it that one does not tell people things while there is time? One lets such trivial things matter.