Quotes About Procrastination

I'd signed six things and my stack wasn't getting any smaller. It was like the paperwork was breeding while I worked.

The most common thing I find is very brilliant, acute, young people who want to become writers but they are not writing. You know, they really badly want to write a book but they are not writing it. The only advice I can give them is to just write it, get to the end of it. And, you know, if it's not good enough, write another one.

Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.

Never do today what you can do tomorrow. Something may occur to make you regret your premature action.

Procrastination is your body telling you you need to back off a bit and think more about what you are doing.

Trips to the dentist - I like to postpone that kind of thing.

I have met so many people who say they've got a book in them, but they've never written a word. To be a writer - this may seem trite, I realize - you have to actually write.

I don't even subscribe to writer's block being a truthful thing. I've had writer's laziness quite often. But I think it's all about sitting down and facing down the blank page and doing it, and I've always been ok at that.

Spiritual is the word people use when they mean they want to be covered whey they die but they're not getting up early on a Sunday.

Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do.

Believe me, you have to get up early if you want to get out of bed.

I'm in an absolute frenzy towards doing as many things as I can that I want to do today. The rest can wait till tomorrow, next week, if I'm around we'll take a look.

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

If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later.

Ironing is a great diversion from the reality you dont want to face.

I have a hard time writing. Most writers have a hard time writing. I have a harder time than most because I'm lazier than most. I don't want to brag, but I'm the laziest person I have ever known.

There's no agony like [getting started]. You sit in a room, biting pencils, looking at a typewriter, walking about, or casting yourself down on a sofa, feeling you want to cry your head off.

Organized people are just too lazy to go looking for what they want.

I feel like there's too many paintings left unpainted that I just don't want to take the time away.

Time passes too quickly when you're getting ready to do something you don't want to do.

Don't forget to turn your clocks back today if you don't want your clocks to be set to the right time.

Everybody always resolves to start exercising, but they never do. You know why ? Because it's January. Who wants to go jogging in the freezing cold ?

In our office, we have a whiteboard with all of our ideas and things we want to write on it - great ideas we have that we haven't had the time to get around to yet.

It's a storm,' he said after a moment. 'Storms pass. I need a reason to procrastinate.