Quotes About Procrastination

La postergación es la estrategia que apadrina el miedo y la pereza de los incapaces.

Cuanto más expreses, menos tendrás para almacenar. Mientras que la postergación cierra las puertas de evacuación, la prudencia exagerada apenas las abre.

To always be intending to live a new life, but never find time to set about it — this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking from one day to another till he be starved and destroyed.

You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.

It is my greatest misfortune to be too lazy, and by the few mortifications I have already set with on that account I predict many evils in my future life. I have always the inclination to do what I ought; but by continually procrastinating for tomorrow the business of today, I insensibly delay, until at the end of one month I find myself in the same place as when I began it.

Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.

You may be fast but you still accel at wasting time!

Laziness is built deep into our nature.

planning fallacy

As Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, "We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Tomorrow is often the busiest time of the year.

Tomorrow is the busiest day of the year.

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.

Spreadsheet: a kind of program that lets you sit at your desk and ask all kinds of neat "what if?" questions and generate thousands of numbers instead of actually working.

she could recall her father telling her when she kept putting off unpleasant chores that she should always shoot the biggest wolf first. After that, the rest were less scary.

Dreaming also has a negative connotation as well. Some people dream and stop there. They never do anything about making their dreams come true.

Much of the stress that people feel doesn't come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they've started.

Everything you've told yourself you ought to do, your mind thinks you should do right now. Frankly, as soon add you have two things to do stored in your RAM, you've generated personal failure, because you can't do two things at the same time. This produces an all-pervasive stress factor whose source can't be pin-pointed.

When we truly need to do is often what we most feel like avoiding.

Won't get done by looking at it!

Whenever someone tells me she is a procrastinator, I respond by asking them, "Did you eat this week?" Of course, the person will always answer yes. The fact is, no one procrastinates all the time. What you may be is a selective procrastinator -- which means that if something is important enough (like eating), you are perfectly capable of taking care of it right away.

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.

Failing to act is action, and though there are a lot of people talking, they are not taking action.

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.