Quotes About Procrastination

To procrastinate is to marinate. Or so we tell ourselves.

Haven't read a book for years - keep buying them and never getting round to reading them - I never seem to have the time.

I think I'm quite a lazy person, actually. If I'm not careful, I could just stay in bed all day.

Writing is one per cent inspiration and 99 per cent prevarication.

I respect people that find writing easy, because I have focus problems. I'll spend five days eating cereal and YouTubing and two hours writing the article.

My favorite way of getting out of doing chores is by acting like I'm asleep. But it never works.

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed be doing at that moment.

Sometimes I'm at home and I remember I'm supposed to do 100 push-ups and I don't.

When you find yourself on the Internet when you're supposed to be writing, you've already lost. It's even beyond procrastination when you end up on the Internet.

I wasn't doing any work that day, just catching up on my foot dangling.

I have a bad habit of starting a book and reading just far enough to make sure I want to read it and look forward to reading and then putting it to one side while I break the ice on a couple more. In that way, when I feel dull and depressed which is too often, I know I have something to read late at night when I do most of it and not that horrid blank feeling of not having anybody to talk to or listen to.

I wasn't doing any work that day, just catching up on my foot-dangling.

the daily papers were beginning to scream about how terrible it would be if you didn't get your Christmas shopping done early. It would be terrible anyway; it always is. It

LAZINESS WILL STOP your progress in your spiritual practice. One can be deceived by three types of laziness: the laziness of indolence, which is the wish to procrastinate; the laziness of inferiority, which is doubting your capabilities; and the laziness that is attachment to negative actions, or putting great effort into non-virtue.

if I had enough time" is the unstated sentence "to hear myself think." In other words, we imagine that if we had time we would quiet our more shallow selves and listen to a deeper flow of inspiration. Again, this is a myth that lets us off the hook—if I wait for enough time to listen, I don't have to listen now, I don't have to take responsibility for being available to what is trying to bubble up today.

We want to set aside time for our creative work, but we feel we should do something else instead. As blocked creatives, we focus not on our responsibilities to ourselves, but on our responsibilities to others. We tend to think such behavior makes us good people. It doesn't. It makes us frustrated people.

For example, if you remembered the smell of fresh-baked bread, a visit to a bakery could be a wonderful Artist Date.) Never Too Late The joke runs like this: Question: Do you know how old I will be by the time I learn to play the piano? Answer: The same age you'll be if you don't. A year from now you will wish you had started today. —KAREN LAMB

We procrastinate because we think we must write our entire project. But to break procrastination, we need only write our first thought. Our second, third, and fourth thoughts follow. Soon we are writing, and procrastination is a thing of our past.

Best face your fears straightaway; putting things off only makes them harder.

A year from now you may wish you had started today.

A year from now you will wish you had started today

She had told herself when she put on her sweatpants this morning that she was going to the gym, and she had gone near the gym, but only because there was a Starbucks in the parking lot.

caught in a Scarlett O'Hara loop of promising herself that she would think about it tomorrow.

but she'd purposefully turn in a paper late or miss an assignment so she'd fall closer to the middle.