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Quotes About Procrastination

I then reluctantly headed up to my office, where I could do something exciting like alphabetize my pencil cup. Again.
~ Shanna Swendson
Do you feel bad enough now to make some changes or would you rather wait until you feel even worse?
~ Shelle Rose Charvet
Haste is productive of injury, and so is too much hesitation. He is the wisest man who does everything at the proper time.
~ Ovid
The best time to buy a home is always five years ago.
~ Ray Brown
Procrastination is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fled.
~ Edward Young
Look at those two. Wasting time. You wouldn't catch me doing that.
~ Eoin Colfer
My cell phone bill and my cable gets cut off all the time. Not because I don't have the money, but because I just forget to pay my bills.
~ Erin Cummings
I always have a story in my head that needs to be written, or at least I think I do. But I usually can't find the time to write it.
~ Etgar Keret
Money can be made later, but time is lost forever.
~ Eugene Jarvis
And of all glad words of prose or rhyme, The gladdest are Act while there yet is time
~ Franklin P. Adams
Those who never have time do least
~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
I was always explaining why my term papers were never on time. I think that's where I got my acting training!
~ Greg Kinnear
When you kill a little time, you may be murdering opportunity.
~ Harvey Mackay
If one waits for the right time to come before writing, the right time never comes.
~ James Russell Lowell
I tend to delay writing by doing more research - it's really the act of writing the piece that I have the hardest time with.
~ James Surowiecki
There does seem to be some evidence that as people get older, they procrastinate less, perhaps because they feel the pressure of time more.
~ James Surowiecki
Sorry," [Hamlet] said, rubbing his temples. "I don't know what came over me. All of a sudden I had this overwhelming desire to talk for a very long time without actually doing anything.
~ Jasper Fforde
I manage my time by prioritizing tasks, working smarter not harder, and by avoiding procrastination.
~ Jeet Banerjee
I spend way too much time on Facebook and MySpace to feel too uncomfortable at this. I like to think of the Internet as an effective way to waste time and time.
~ Jim Gaffigan
I don't believe in writer's block. Most of writer's block is having too much time on your hands. My mantra is that you can always edit a bad page; you can't edit a blank page.
~ Jodi Picoult
Football is simple. You are in time or too late. When you are too late, you should start sooner.
~ Johan Cruijff
You realize that we over-exaggerate yesterday, we over-estimate tomorrow and we underestimate today. We think, "Well, I'm going to kill time," "I'll get back to this tomorrow."
~ John C. Maxwell
3 o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Everything comes at the right time, but if the right time is too late to be patient, go earlier before it becomes too late.
~ Michael Bassey Johnson