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Quotes About Procrastination

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
Never put off until run time what you can do at compile time.
~ David Gries
It takes an awful lot of time to not write a book.
~ Douglas Adams
I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me.
~ Alexander Pope
Saving time = wasting time.
~ Behdad Sami
There is no waste of time like making excuses.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
I love the Internet, and I love wasting time on the Internet - even though it sometimes ends up being not being a waste of time.
~ Claire Cameron
I'm terrible when I have to fill up free time. My days, if I'm not working, I wake up and figure out a way to kill time until it's time to go to sleep.
~ Gilbert Gottfried
Time is painted with a lock before, and bald behind, signifying thereby that we must take time by the forelock; for, when it is once past, there is no recalling it.
~ Jonathan Swift
I think the internet is the greatest waste of time since masturbation was discovered.
~ Norman Mailer
It's fine to wait for an appropriate time, but it's inappropriate to wait forever.
~ Ron Kaufman
By and by never comes.
~ Saint Augustine
Yeah, but if I don't start my nervous pacing now, I'll never have it all done in time.
~ Scott Lynch
The greatest opportunity of our lives is to wake ourselves up and get going. There is so much to be done and so little time to do it. We should impress ourselves with the seriousness of slothfulness.
~ Sterling W Sill
Some days I'll be like, "You know what? Why don't I go to my daughter's studio and make a song?!" And then I don't! I don't know if I would have all the time it takes to put into a song.
~ Tameka Cottle
The distracting feeling of disbelief when you're finally doing something you've procrastinated on for notable amounts of time.
~ Tao Lin
There's all sorts of things I was always meaning to get around to - learning to play the flute, calculating the square root of nought, going mad - but I just didn't have the time.
~ Tom Holt
There are a lot of ideas I've had that I originally was quite taken with, but over time, I lost steam. They stay on my list, but between me and you, I'm probably never going to do them.
~ William Gurstelle
I have a hard time with scheduling, and with hunkering down and planning. That's always been a struggle for me.
~ Zachary Levi
A lot of getting a song done is booking the studio time. I'm the kind of person who will set time aside to do something and then do everything but that thing.
~ Kurt Vile
There's so many good books, but I'm always like, "I'm sorry, I have five more Faulkners to read, I can't be bothered." Most of the time when you try, you fall on the wrong one.
~ Lou Doillon
I have long since decided if you wait for the perfect time to write, you'll never write. There is no time that isn't flawed somehow.
~ Margaret Atwood
Procrastinatio n is still the thief of time.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
In the immemorial style of young men under pressure, they decided to lie down for a while and waste time.
~ Michael Chabon