Quotes About Procrastination

There's never enough time to do all the nothing I want.

let me forget about today until tomorrow

Les gens perdent leur temps à vivre, alors, il ne leur en reste plus pour travailler.

Do not wait until life meets some inner criteria to seize the day, she whispered. I have learned that sometimes tomorrow never comes.

Keep thinking those thoughts and you'll be late again

I wonder why I don't go to bed and go to sleep. But then it would be tomorrow, so I decide that no matter how tired, no matter how incoherent I am, I can skip on hour more of sleep and live.

I decided I would put off the novel until I had gone to Europe and had a lover, and that I would never learn a word of shorthand. If I never learned shorthand I would never have to use it.

The reason I hadn't washed my clothes or my hair was because it seemed so silly.

I'd always spoil what I did so nobody would ask me to do it again.

To those of us who often procrastinate on the decision we feel intimidated by lack of education or any area of weakness. I relieve you with this statement: It is not how much you know that arms you with the tools of great decision making, but rather how much you ask. Ask questions.

I thought of the things that had happened to me over the years, and of how little I had made happen.

You're running out of tomorrows." Running out of tomorrows, I repeated to myself in my room, sprawling across my bed to begin another midnight marathon of homework. Sometimes I felt as if there were no tomorrows, that everything, my whole life, was crammed into one long day. A continuous stretch of meaningless time. Sometimes I even wished there was no tomorrow, if this was all I had to look forward to.

I love it when my justifications for avoiding housework are actually legitimate.

Suffice it to say that the LOR has usurped the place of my own work, now adorned with cobwebs and dust in a remote corner of my office.

yo creo que las mujeres tejen cuando han encontrado en esa labor el gran pretexto para no hacer nada.

En cambio te quedás (...) dándole vueltas a los falsos problemas, esperando no se qué. Si todo esto es absurdo hay que hacer algo para cambiarlo.

No sé por qué tejía tanto, yo creo que las mujeres tejen cuando han encontrado en esa labor el gran pretexto para no hacer nada.

Como a veces no puede dormir, en vez de contar corderitos contesta mentalmente la correspondencia atrasada, porque su mala conciencia tiene tanto insomnio como él.

Inercia. Todo dura siempre un poco más de lo que debería.

Each morning, before Jackie started her studies, she wrote on a clean piece of paper: Tarde venientibus ossa. To the latecomers are left the bones.

I seem to be allergic to diligence

Tarde venientibus ossa. To the latecomers are left the bones.

Inertia is so easy—don't fix what's not broken. Leave well enough alone. So we end up accepting what is broken, mistaking complaining for action, procrastinating for deliberation.

Das ist so ziemlich alles außer Geschirrspülen.