Quotes About Procrastination

Killing time is not an easy job

Time flies when you're a dolt.

a highly fragmented day is also a very lazy day.

Sometimes we avoid checking in on our progress because we don't want to acknowledge how little progress we've made.

Realise, as the long hot days freakishly repeat themselves, one after the other, that whatever I am doing I really think I ought to be doing something else.

I can make going to the dry-cleaners last an entire day, and the dry cleaners might be 150 yards from my front door. You might find it hard to believe, but I am bone-idle lazy.

How does a project get to be a year late? One day at a time.

Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?

How does a project get to be a year behind schedule? One day at a time.

In the back of my mind was the constant hankering, almost yearning, to write but something always stopped me in my tracks. Or if I did find my way to put a pen to paper or finger on a keyboard I'd give up after a few minutes. I'd find other things to do: Anything but writing.

I'm eighteen years behind in my ironing.

If you say you plan to retire in two or three years, you've already retired.

If you are waiting for this thing that might happen tomorrow, it probably will never happen. You need to activate it now! No one else is going to do it for you, and ten years are going to go by before you even know it.

The best time to plant a tree was 25 years ago. The second-best time to plant a tree is today.

The busy man is troubled with but one devil; the idle man by a thousand

Never put off today what you can put off tomorrow.

Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.

The lazy man always does twice the work. (El bago siempre pasa double trabajo)

I despise this weakness in myself--this endless one-sided conversation that takes the place of action...

Sólo hay una cosa que cansa a los hombres: la vacilación, la incertidumbre. Cualquier acción libera nuestro ánimo, incluso la peor resulta mejor que la inacción.

I am a person who works well under pressure. In fact, I work so well under pressure that at times, I will procrastinate in order to create this pressure.

The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.

The horrible truth is that I am lazy and I am going to write and do bits that just hand themselves to me.

The truth is, anyone can start projects. The world is full of just-started projects that looked great at the time but were never completed.