Quotes About Procrastination

All work is the avoidance of harder work.

I think the worst and most insidious procrastination for me is research. I will be looking for some bit of fact or figure to include in the novel, and before I know, I've wasted an entire morning delving into that subject matter without a word written.

Lack of confidence, sometimes alternating with unrealistic dreams of heroic success, often leads to procrastination, and many studies suggest that procrastinators are self-handicappers: rather than risk failure, they prefer to create conditions that make success impossible, a reflex that of course creates a vicious cycle.

It was Andrew Jackson's motto, he reminded, that "if you temporize, you are lost.

TR regarded procrastination as a sin. Preparing ahead - Freedom from anxiety.

Some day, I must take my own prolific advice and contrive to drop dead.

I hate writing, I love having written

Ballycumber (ba-li-KUM-ber) n. One of the six half-read books lying somewhere in your bed.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

Fifteen seconds later he left the house, five hours late but moving fast.

I love deadlines," he has said. "I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.

I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by." ? Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt

I love deadlines," he said once. "I love the whooshing sound they make as they go by.") He died in May 2001—too young. His

I love deadlines," he said once. "I love the whooshing sound they make as they go by.")

We were just about to do nothing at all for a while but it can wait.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.' Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

But Mr. Dent, the plans have been available in the local planning office for the last nine months.

When you're young, you feel like life hasn't yet begun, like life is scheduled to begin next week, next month, next year, after the holidays - whenever. But suddenly you're old, and the scheduled life never arrived. I find myself asking, 'Well, then, exactly what was it I was doing with all that time I had before I thought my life would begin?

Wow. Whoops. Sorry. ... I just lost two hours inside a YouTube kitten warp.

There is no avoidance in delay.

Don't put off for tomorrow what you should do today.

The loiterer often imputes delay to his more active friend.

After all is said and done, more is said than done.

Indecision is like a stepchild: if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water.