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Quotes About Procrastination

To be honest, I used to always procrastinate when I write. I mean, I love writing, but I hate it.
~ David Grann
We are more likely to busy ourselves with finding things to do than in doing with our might the work that is in our hands already.
~ Sarah Orne Jewett
Sometimes if you wait too long, it's too late.
~ Sarah Strohmeyer
You cannot meet today's crisis tomorrow.
~ Saul Alinsky
This is why she can't get up. As long as she stays in bed everything's on hold.
~ Scarlett Thomas
Things that are less fun to do are usually harder to do, which means the pile isn't ordinary work but a pile of unloved, unwanted, complex work: 1. We do things we like first. 2. We do things we don't like last. 3. The things we don't like tend to be harder. 4. Late changes have cascading effects.
~ Scott Berkun
well it's almost noon and i've done nothing all day, all my great plans shot to hell, of getting up at 7 and writing 3 new poems 1 new story 5 letters of sending out submissions to 4 new magazines and making several phone calls all by noon – so i'll just keep drinking coffee and reading from the stack of books on my kitchen table and maybe i'll go catch a flick and maybe just maybe i'll get half as much done tomorrow.
~ Scott C. Holstad
Procrastination isn't task management, it's feeling management.
~ Scott Ginsberg
Anything that will keep you from your own ability to be successful is sabotage—procrastinating, drinking too much, not eating healthfully, showing up late, phoning it in, even just ignoring the instruction of your coach (or boss or teacher). This is all self-sabotage. When will you stop making decisions that are bad for you? When you decide you're ready to win.
~ Scott Hamilton
Yeah, but if I don't start my nervous pacing now, I'll never have it all done in time.
~ Scott Lynch
I'm, uh, going up to the room Ã¢â'¬Â¦ to get ready." "You've got at least four hours before we have to leave." "Yeah, but if I don't start my nervous pacing now, I'll never have it all done in time.
~ Scott Lynch
Q: Why didn't the chicken cross the road? A: Because he was a chicken.
~ Scott McNeely
A good plan violently executed today is better than a perfect plan executed tomorrow." – GEORGE PATTON
~ Scott Thorpe
What may be done at any time will be done at no time.
~ Scottish Proverb
To spend too much time in studies is sloth.
~ Francis Bacon
But time has a way of stealthily deciding a person's mind without her conscious knowledge, and as she studied and procrastinated, Poison found one day that she had come to know her choice.
~ Chris Wooding, Poison
if a thing is to be done, there is no time like the hour that has not struck.
~ Amelia Barr
I can really waste a lot of time on the Internet.
~ Amy Brenneman
The only time I ever iron the sheets or make meringues is when there is an ... urgent deadline in the offing.
~ Angela Carter
I don't think you have time to waste not writing because you are afraid you won't be good at it.
~ Anne Lamott
Ninety-five per cent of my time is virtually wasted.
~ Antony Garrett Lisi
We can defer, yet time is most certainly not.
~ Benjamin Franklin
People put off writing thinking they don't have the time or enough of an opinion to matter and that is crap. You are the only one standing in your own way, so get started.
~ C.C. Chapman
The woman named Tomorrow sits with a hairpin in her teeth and takes her time
~ Carl Sandburg