Quotes About Procrastination

Creative procrastination is the act of thoughtfully and deliberately deciding upon the exact things you are not going to do right now, if ever.

Your mind, your ability to think, plan, and decide is your most powerful tool for overcoming procrastination.

When you train yourself, through repetition and practice, to overcome procrastination and get your most important tasks completed quickly, you will move yourself onto the fast track in your life and career and step on the accelerator.

Every morning, and every night, I resolved to start a new life, but I always procrastinated, acquiescing to my ailing willpower. And Saturday at eleven o'clock at night was not the right moment to make important decisions.

Delay is the deadliest form of denial.

I know I have to do the right thing. And the sooner you do the right thing, the better. You get it over with, and you don't have to worry about it anymore. But who does that in real life? Instead, you procrastinate and think about it and put it off and think about it some more until that one little pebble grows into a giant block inside your head.

And the sooner you do the right thing, the better. You get it over with, and you don't have to worry about it anymore. But who does that in real life?

Why do I keep evading my work? Is it because I'm afraid of being confronted by my lack of abilities?

There's no such thing as writer's block, she proclaimed. If you can't write it's because you don't have anything to say. Or you're avoiding something.

Failure to act in a timely manner can be fatal.

There is always time for another last minute

Once you had a good excuse, you opened the door to bad excuses.

YOU'RE ONLY PUTTING OFF THE INEVITABLE, he said. That's what being alive is all about.

He put more effort into avoiding work than most people put into hard labor.

Part of the problem in politics is that people only look at the next four to eight years: kick the can down the road and say, 'Hey, it's the next person's problem.'

I have all the gym kit set up in my house but I am too lazy to get up really early in the morning to do it myself.

A couple of my friends told me to get into cooking but I have not been able to get myself into the kitchen.

Everyone knows the best time to do laundry is later.

My block was due to two overlapping factors: laziness and lack of discipline.

I was tops at the Scarlet O'Hara school of emotional distancing. I always thought about the uncomfortable stuff tomorrow, and, as everyone knows, tomorrow never comes.

the longer you stew, the more likely you are to strike.

Once ye made up yer mind to do somethin', 'tis better t'stumble o'er the small hillock of jump-ahead than t'bash yer head on the jagged rocks of did-nothing. Old Woman Nora of Loch Lomand to her three wee granddaughters one cold evening

Procrastinating is number three on my Stupid List. You still end up exactly where you didn't want to be, doing exactly what you didn't want to do, withe the only difference being that you lost all that time in between, during which you could have been doing something fun. Even worse, you probably stayed in a stressed-out, crappy mood the whole time you were avoiding it. If you know something is inevitable, do it and get it over with. Move on. Life is short.

Procrastinating is number one of my Stupid List. You still end up exactly where you didn't want to be, doing exactly what you didn't want to do, with the only difference being you lost all that time in between, during which you could have been doing something fun. Even worse, you probably stayed in a stressed-out, scrappy mood the whole time you were avoiding it.