Quotes About Procrastination

The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The second best time is today.

The human race seems to love nothing more than a long detour.

Habitual procrastinators will readily testify to all the lost opportunities, missed deadlines, failed relationships and even monetary losses incurred just because of one nasty habit of putting things off until it is often too late.

The problem with procrastination is it's been around since the beginning of time it seems.

How often do you find yourself saying, "In a minute", "I'll get to it" or "Tomorrow's good enough" and every other possible excuse in the book? Compare it with how often you decide it's got to be done, so let's get on and do it! That should tell you just how serious your procrastinating problem really is.

I was going to write a book on procrastination, but I kept putting it off.

We become our own opposition when we accept the following: procrastinating, lying to ourselves, comparing ourselves to others, and having self-doubts—in short, anything that gets in the way of our becoming who we were created to be.

Procrastinators will weigh you down. Action is the prescription for moving forward. Action will eliminate boredom. Procrastinators are waiting, and they often create more excuses to continue waiting: It isn't the right time; I'm going to wait until it's sunny outside; I got up late; I called them and they didn't pick up the phone; they didn't reply to my email. Procrastinators are going nowhere. Do not let them impede your journey to success.

Decision making brings together many of the finest traits of contrarian leadership--thinking gray, thinking free, artful listening, delegating authority while retaining ultimate responsibility,artful procrastination, ignoring sunk costs, taking luck into account, and listening to one's inner voice. Weaving these traits together is an art itself. When it is done well, the result is a thing of beauty and a powerful tool for effective leadership.

Perfectionism is procrastination masquerading as quality control.

The time you do get edgy and the time you do want to slack off is the time, boom, there goes your opportunity. So you don't want to have that.

The easiest thing to do in the world is pull the covers up over your head and go back to sleep.

Either you let your life slip away by not doing the things you want to do, or you get up and do them.

I can be a lazy slob.

Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done - like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions.

I write slowly and get distracted a lot.

Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.

I have met so many people who say they've got a book in them, but they've never written a word.

The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The second best time is now.

The danger was not that I would do wrong, but that I would do nothing

Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.

I keep telling myself: anything that can be done some other day can be done today.xiii

Postponing taking action on difficult decisions that you've already made will only make the problem worse. Strong

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