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Quotes About Procrastination

Turning pro is a mindset. If we are struggling with fear, self-sabotage, procrastination, self-doubt, etc., the problem is, we're thinking like amateurs. Amateurs don't show up. Amateurs crap out. Amateurs let adversity defeat them. The pro thinks differently. He shows up, he does his work, he keeps on truckin', no matter what.
~ Steven Pressfield
Perfectionism and procrastination have such a fine line. You say, 'Well, I want it to be good. I want it to be perfect.' But what you're really doing is not doing your work. You're putting off showing up and being visible because then you're going to be judged, and it might suck.
~ Jen Sincero
I have a terrible work ethic. The best way for me to do anything in life is for someone to say, 'You need to do this by this time, or you're in trouble'.
~ Greg Davies
I come up with the silliest excuses when it's time to work out. I'll be like, 'Oh no! Now I have to go and find some socks.'
~ Christina Hendricks
I'm terrible at texting people back. It takes me, like, three days. I'm not a big phone person.
~ Tom Felton
Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Ben and I live like hermits. The night of a concert, we'll be like, 'Do you think we can get tickets?' And everybody is like, 'No, why didn't you do this earlier?'
~ Melissa McCarthy
Procrastination doesn't work for everything. For instance, waiting to buy plane tickets at the last minute will typically end up costing you more.
~ John Rampton
You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.
~ J. J. Abrams
There are always deadlines I have to meet. I don't let myself get too close to the deadlines, so it's not like I'm just sweating bullets or anything if the clock is ticking. I never let myself get in that situation.
~ Scott Adams
When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom.
~ Walter Annenberg
If you wait too long for the perfect idea, your creativity will stay between your ears in inertia.
~ Sahar Hashemi
Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
~ Saint Augustine
basis, you may find that it is affecting your daily life because you simply don't get things done. Fortunately, there are a number of habits that you can introduce into your life to stop procrastination. Some of them
~ Sam Davis
If you want to kill time, try working it to death.
~ Sam Levonson
I have, all my life long, been lying till noon; yet I tell all young men, and tell them with great sincerity, that nobody who does not rise early will ever do any good.
~ Samuel Johnson
Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.
~ Samuel Johnson
We spend more time wasting time on thinking about wasted time.
~ Sana Dabbas
Any time you got nothing to do - and lots of time to do it - come on up.
~ Mae West
The time to begin most things is ten years ago.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
Wasting time is something that people do or feel all over the world, not just in Italy.
~ Paolo Sorrentino
If you have time don't wait for time.
~ Benjamin Franklin
The fact is that you can't do everything that you have to do. You have to procrastinate on something. Therefore, procrastinate on small tasks.
~ Brian Tracy
Time and tide will wait for no man, saith the adage. But all men have to wait for time and tide.
~ Charles Dickens