Quotes About Procrastination

Everything was for tomorrow, but tomorrow never came. The present was only a bridge and on this bridge they are still groaning, as the world groans, and not one idiot ever thinks of blowing up the bridge.

In Europe one gets used to doing nothing. You sit on your ass and whine all day. You get contaminated. You rot.

Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement.

Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun.

I'm a precrastinator. Yes, that's an actual term. You know that panic you feel a few hours before a big deadline when you haven't done anything yet? I just feel that a few months ahead of time.

Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.

Today is the tomorrow I worried about yesterday.

I tend to write three to four hours a day, depending - oftentimes very late at night. When I write on Twitter, I do other things: I'm working, grading, or reading, and I'm procrastinating, and I'll pop on Twitter and be like, 'Hey, what's up? Yogurt's delicious.'

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.

Luckily I haven't fallen into the trap, which has claimed so many writers, of living from day to day thinking 'Ah, I'll write a book about that.'

I have a treadmill in the house but I never use it.

Well I think a lot of times we're putting things off and I'm going to do it later. I'm going to break this bad habit or I'm going to pursue this dream or I'm going to treat my spouse better.

Become a worry-slapper. Treat frets like mosquitoes. Do you procrastinate when a bloodsucking bug lights on your skin? 'I'll take care of it in a moment.' Of course you don't! You give the critter the slap it deserves. Be equally decisive with anxiety.

I had no thought of being a writer. I never wanted to do anything. I'm tremendously lazy.

I desire to put off my trial as long as I can till I can get my evidence ready.

Tibor Fischer, Good To Be God

There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.

I am overcome by my own amazing sloth...Can you please forgive me and believe that it is really because I want to do something well that I don't do it at all?

You know when they have a fishing show on TV? They catch the fish and then let it go. They don't want to eat the fish, they just want to make it late for something.

Most investors want to do today what they should have done yesterday.

Fortune tellers live in the future. So do people who want to put things off. So do fundamentalists.

Someday' is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you.… If it's important to you and you want to do it 'eventually,' just do it and correct course along the way.

They loved the sound of their own voices. No decision would be reached anytime soon.