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Quotes About Procrastination

If you want me to give you a two-hour presentation, I am ready today. If you want only a five-minute speech, it will take me two weeks to prepare.
~ Mark Twain
New Year's Day: Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.
~ Mark Twain
When ever I get the urge to write, I lie down and it usually passes.
~ Mark Twain
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.
~ Mark Twain
Gäbe es die letzte Minute nicht, so würde niemals etwas fertig.
~ Mark Twain
Mirar está al alcance de cualquier holgazán necesitado de un corte de pelo.
~ Mark Twain
I was always reading books when I should have been doing math and the rest of it.
~ Markus Zusak
The old saying is true enough. The hurrier I go, the behinder I get.
~ Marta Perry
We are faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words 'Too Late'.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
I'm not sure about whether I shall go. I am the most incurably lazy devil that ever stood in shoe leather
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
He decided to put off the follow-up appointment. It was ultimately a year before he returned to see Benzel. A repeat MRI showed the tumor had enlarged.
~ Atul Gawande
Delay is a gun pointed at the temple of confidence.
~ Augusten Burroughs
work only during the week, and even then I often find excuses not to sit down and bang out the words. I am a marvelously effective procrastinator. I get right to it. And yet, over these thirty days, I never wrote fewer than two pages a day and sometimes wrote as many as ten. I have once or twice before in my life written this much in a single month, but never with such ease and pleasure. Maybe I've turned into one of those clone robots of myself my therapist asked me to imagine! I
~ Ayelet Waldman
My heart weighs heavy from all of the books I have not yet written
~ Stephen Birch
And nobody felt sad as long as we could postpone tomorrow with more nostalgia.
~ Stephen Chbosky
If you don't have the time to do something right, where are you going to find the time to fix it?
~ Stephen King
The scholar's greatest weakness: calling procrastination research.
~ Stephen King
Each thing I do I rush through so I can do something else.'
~ Stephen King
I told myself there was time. Of course, that's what we always tell ourselves, isn't it? We can't imagine time running out, and God punishes us for what we can't imagine.
~ Stephen King
Pissing and thinking have a lot in common, he thought. You can put them both off.. But not forever.
~ Stephen King
Procrastinating to embark on your passion is a risky business, because tomorrow may never come!
~ Alex Zar
Thinking about working out burns 0 calories, 0 percentage of fat and accomplishes 0 goals!
~ Gwen Ro
The longer you wait for the future, the shorter it will be.
~ Loesje
Don't let procrastination take over your life. Be brave and take risks. Your life is happening right now.
~ Roy Bennett