Quotes About Procrastination

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. - Pablo Picasso

Literature is what you write when you think you should be saying something. Writing begins when you'd rather be doing anything else: and you've just done it.

It has been left to our generation to discover that you can move heaven and earth to save five minutes and then not have the faintest idea what to do with them when you have saved them.

Indolence is the beginning of all vice, because in a condition of slothful dreaming the libido has abundant opportunity for sinking into itself...

Once he finally built those bookshelves, he could showcase an impressive collection. But he never got around to it.

How easy it is to leave things undone until they are too late.

Humans are naturally biased toward activities that require less energy in the short term, even if it's more harmful in the long term—so we end up texting our sibling instead of calling them on the phone, or liking a picture of a friend's new baby instead of stopping by to visit.

waiting for inspiration to strike is a terrible, terrible plan.

The pseudo-worker looks and feels like someone who is working hard—he or she spends a long time in the library and is not afraid to push on late into the night—but, because of a lack of focus and concentration, doesn't actually accomplish much.

The idle mind is the devil's workshop

By leveraging a radical change to your normal environment, coupled perhaps with a significant investment of effort or money, all dedicated toward supporting a deep work task, you increase the perceived importance of the task. This boost in importance reduces your mind's instinct to procrastinate and delivers an injection of motivation and energy.

without these accountability tools, I tended to procrastinate on this work, turning my attention to more urgent but less important matters.

No quiero empezar hasta no estar totalmente seguro'. Esta vaca me daba la tranquilidad de creer que estaba siendo responsable, pero lo que en realidad hizo fue impedirme realizar numerosos proyectos, esperando el momento propicio, o que se dieran todas las condiciones. Ahora me doy cuenta que si espero las circunstancias ideales para hacer las cosas, nunca emprenderé nada nuevo, así que he aprendido a actuar".

lo molesta lo suficiente como para quejarse, pero no lo suficiente como para moverse.

Working hard is great, being lazy sometimes is great, but failed potential is the worst.

Worry is a way to avoid change; when we worry, we don't do anything about the matter.

Second, when you say, "I don't have time to do that right now," you're telling a polite lie to avoid saying, "I don't want to do that right now.

Didn't anyone ever tell you that you can't spell later without the word late?

A good battle plan that you act on today can be better than a perfect one tomorrow

Have more than one idea on the go at any one time. If it's a choice between writing a book and doing nothing I will always choose the latter. It's only if I have an idea for two books that I choose one rather than the other. I ­always have to feel that I'm bunking off from something.

I am always on the edge of what I am doing. I do everything badly, sloppily, to get it over with so that I can get on to the next thing that I will do badly and sloppily so that I can then do nothing - which I do anxiously, distractedly, wondering all the time if there isn't something else I should be getting on with.

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

The excuses we make to ourselves when we want to do something are excellent material for soliloquies, for they are rarely made except when we are alone, and are very often made aloud.

Ganging up on a short-range interest isn't the same thing as killing it.