Quotes About Procrastination

People who go about talking of what they are going to do don't usually do that.

Hard work pays off in the end, but laziness pays off now.

Whenever I feel the urge to exercise, I lie down and nap until the urge passes.

Whenever I feel the urge to exercise, I lie down and take a nap instead.

Preparing to live your dream is postponing it. You are either living it, or not.

Busyness is not a reason for not getting other things done. It is an excuse for not claiming your true priorities.

The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.

Nope! Not now!" Taz agreed, letting them hurry him along.

Failing to plan mean you plan to fail.

A lot of times, I put my own personal health to the side, focusing on work or family or getting ahead. At the end of the day, you're just exhausted on your couch and haven't made that doctor's appointment, didn't make that phone call, and feel terrible.

I'm bad at returning phone calls.

I don't organize myself sufficiently to get an album of material together, book the studio, and go. I need to be kicked; I need to be forced physically to go in. That's how it works for me. I'll get a great idea in the house, and it'll stay there unless somebody comes and drags it out of me!

All the things you put off, like learning to play the piano or leaning a different language? You're like, what's the point? I'm not really gonna do that, am I?

I am a great procrastinator. When the writing is going really well, the laundry piles up.

My whole life, I wanted to be a fighter pilot; it's what I wanted to do. I set up all of my classes for it, but I got lazy my senior year in high school and didn't get my paperwork in.

Writing is very good for household tasks. Because you'd rather fix a dripping tap or paint an old wall - you'd rather do almost anything than sit and write. I have to reach a point of obsession in order to write, and so I find starting a book incredibly difficult.

When you procrastinate, you're more likely to let your mind wander. That gives you a better chance of stumbling onto the unusual and spotting unexpected patterns.

Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.

Did I become court composer through masterful procrastination? Hardly!

Though at every point you showed that what you were saying was true, yet I, convinced by that truth, had no answer to give you except merely slow and sleepy words: "At once"—"But presently"—"Just a little longer, please." But "At once, at once" never came to the point of decision, and "Just a little longer, please" went on and on for a long while. . . .

People are always getting ready to live but never living.

Hard work guarantees you nothing. But laziness assures

When people say they don't have time, it really means they're not sufficiently motivated

Common sense always speaks too late. Common sense is the guy who tells you ought to have had your brakes relined last week before you smashed a front end this week. Common sense is the Monday morning quarterback who could have won the ball game if he had been on the team. But he never is. He's high up in the stands with a flask on his hip. Common sense is the little man in a gray suit who never makes a mistake in addition. But it's always somebody else's money he's adding up.