Quotes About Procrastination

There aren't many crimes in my book. Not many sins either. But top on both of those lists is killing time. Have fun with it, make something cool, play video games, work hard if you feel like it, but do something. Killed time is an abortion, life that never gets lived, gone, just gone.

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, with 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.

Sometimes you plug the hole any way you can, and worry about fixing the boat later. If the choices are sinking today or tomorrow, I'll take tomorrow.

When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

I'm too lazy and I like food and I like my free time too much to spend it working out!

The only way of catching a train I ever discovered is to miss the train before.

The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before.

What's your least favorite thing to do? Why?

Toying with time will lead you down a rabbit hole with no way out. Believing this lie does its harm by convincing you to do things you shouldn't and stop doing things you should. Middle mismanagement can be one of the most destructive things you ever do. You can't ignore the inevitability of time.

Whether you say "later" or "never," the point is to say "not now" to anything else you could do until your most important work is done.

Achievers do sooner what others plan to do later and defer, perhaps indefinitely, what others do sooner. The difference isn't in intent, but in right of way. Achievers always work from a clear sense of priority.

Procrastination is a part of perfectionism in some people. Those who procrastinate don't do anything. By not doing anything, they can't fail. It's an inhibiting, self-defeating cycle.

I've noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it's far enough in the future.

Living is something most of us postpone, isn't it? We sell the present for a chance at a future where we may do our living when we're old and we've lost the talent for it.

until it was almost too late.

I would save studying for a test until the night before the test because I didn't know if I was even going to be alive to take it anyway, so why bother? This was the attitude of all my friends.

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.

if you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you will never get it done

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

My ambition is handicapped by my laziness.

One who delays his work is always wrestling with ruin.

It is all very well planning what you will do in six months, what you will do in a year, but it's no good at all if you don't have a plan for tomorrow.

He saw it for the first time: on the day he died he would be wearing unmatching socks, there would be unanswered e-mails, and in the hovel he called home there would still be shirts missing cuff buttons, a malfunctioning light in the hall, and unpaid bills, uncleared attics, dead flies, friends waiting for a reply and lovers he had not owned up to.