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Quotes About Procrastination

Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.
~ Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Choking the gopher. What'd you think I'd do, my homework?
~ Simone Elkeles
Look at what the Clock is doing, then never wait for tomorrow.
~ Sipho P Nkosi
Waste of time is waste of time for everyone.
~ Sir Omer Iqbal
Our time is like our money; when we change a guinea the shillings escape as things of small account; when we break a day by idleness in the morning, the rest of the hours lose their importance in our eyes.
~ Sir Walter Scott
To be always intending to live a new life, but never find time to set about it - this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking from one day to another till he be starved and destroyed.
~ Sir Walter Scott
I love research so much that I do an enormous amount; it helps put off the moment of starting to write the story.
~ Alan Garner
I love reading; it's a great way to avoid writing.
~ Tony Kushner
People everywhere pray for a job where they can "work from home," so I guess, going with the gratitude theme, I should be grateful for this opportunity. I wonder how, though, when people get one of these jobs, they keep themselves from spending the entire day going on YouTube and looking at videos about baby deer that have been adopted by golden retrievers. Because that's all I've accomplished today so far.
~ Meg Cabot
What to Do During Algebra O what to do during Algebra! The possibilities are limitless: There's drawing, and yawning, and portable chess There's dozing, and dreaming, and feeling confused. There's humming, and strumming, and looking bemused. You can stare at the clock. You can hum a little song. I've tried just about everything to pass the time along.
~ Meg Cabot
when there's nothing to be done you might as well get some sleep, because when there is something to be done you're going to wish you'd had some." As
~ Mercedes Lackey
Hurry up and do nothing, that was the army's way of doing things.
~ Bernard Cornwell
Ou não há 'tarde demais', apenas 'tarde', sendo 'tarde' de qualquer modo melhor do que 'nunca'?
~ Bernhard Schlink
Ich dachte, wenn die rechte Zeit verpaßt ist, wenn einer etwas zu lange verweigert hat, wenn einem etwas zu lange verweigert wurde, kommt es zu spät, selbst wenn es schließlich mit Kraft angegangen und mit Freude empfangen wird. Oder gibt es zu spät nicht, gibt es nur spät, und ist spät allemal besser als nie? Ich weiß es nicht.
~ Bernhard Schlink
Aber gibt es zu spät nicht, gibt es nur spät, und ist spät allemal besser als nie? Ich weiß es nicht.
~ Bernhard Schlink
Because of laziness the roof caves in, and because of negligent hands the house leaks. Ecclesiastes 10:18
~ Beth Moore
I am a great believer in the OHIO principle: Only handle it once. When you read an e-mail, decide whether or not to reply to it, and, if you need to reply, do so right then and there. I have found that about 80 percent of all e-mails, whether internal or external, do not require a response.
~ Robert Pozen
I'm embarrassed to say this, but I shy away from memoirs. My feeling is always that I'm saving them for later, so I guess that means I'll reach a point when I read nothing else.
~ Jennifer Egan
There are books on our shelves we haven't read and doubtless never will, that each of us has probably put to one side in the belief that we will read them later on, perhaps even in another life.
~ Umberto Eco
The sure sign of an amateur is he has a million plans and they all start tomorrow.
~ Steven Pressfield
It's not the writing part that's hard. What's hard is sitting down to write. What keeps us from sitting down is Resistance.
~ Steven Pressfield
Resistance will tell you anything to keep you from doing your work.
~ Steven Pressfield
Resistance gets us to plunge into a project with an overambitious and unrealistic timetable for its completion.
~ Steven Pressfield