Quotes About Procrastination

If you defer investing your time and energy until you see that you need to, chances are it will already be too late.

Im like any other composer. If you give me five years to write a symphony, Im still going to be asking for more time two days before its due.

And why, by the way, did it take Arabs to do what people here should have done a long time ago?

Killing time is not an easy job.

There's no good way to waste your time. Wasting time is just wasting time.

There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.

I have a promptness problem. I am a promptness-free zone.

Sometimes,well,all the time,I can't think of what to say because I'm so dumb and stuff,and then maybe I think of it like five days later.

I decided a long time ago but sometimes it takes you 40 years to get around to doing something - and that's the truthful answer.

It's just a matter of time before we're late.

Idle time is the devil's play.

If I had more time, I would have written less.

Most time is wasted, not in hours, but in minutes. A bucket with a small hole in the bottom gets just as empty as a bucket that is deliberately kicked over.

The best time to write a story is yesterday. The next best time is today.

When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else - we are the busiest people in the world.

The only time a lazy man ever succeeds is when he tries to do nothing.

The Slothful do not have the time to become virtuous or despicable.

I think there is clearly a connection between free time and procrastination. The more you have of the former, all things being equal, the more likely you are to procrastinate.

I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool.

Eventually, time takes care of everything. The trouble with procrastination is that people give up on it too soon.

Whenever I have to do something, I try to minimise the time it takes me to do it. I just cannot wait.

Procrastination is also a subtle act of corruption – it corrupts valuable time

Those who say they would write a book if only they had time will never become authors.

Soon I'll be old and I've done precious little in this world for lack of time. I am always afraid I'll become senile before I've finished what I've undertaken.