Quotes About Procrastination

"Now" is the operative word. Everything you put in your way is just a method of putting off the hour when you could actually be doing your dream.

My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season.

He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

He who hesitates is last.

Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing.

He who begins many things finishes but few.

Whenever I feel like exercise, I lie down until the feeling passes.

He that hath the name to be an early riser may sleep till noon.

Of all our faults, the one that we excuse most easily is idleness.

We are lazier in our minds than in our bodies.

Some people have a perfect genius for doing nothing, and doing it assiduously.

Idleness is the holiday of fools.

I've thought about writing, but it hasn't happened yet. It's like schoolwork - you start doing your revisions two nights before you're compelled to turn it in.

After the cancer-free diagnosis, I thought I'd go off and do the things I never did in my teens and twenties. I realised putting things off in life can be dangerous because suddenly you can find you've run out of time.

A lot of us spend our lives assuming we are going to get around to those things we want to do.

I've been writing, but I haven't been writing. In my mind I've been saying I want to write, but I haven't actually physically picked up a pencil and started writing.

Just because something is three months away and seems far off, doesn't mean you will want to be there when the time comes.

Absolutely not. I'm an expert in procrastination, but the last thing I want you to think is that I'm incompetent, too. Because I'm actually pretty good at what I do." -Jo

I don't read the Bible. Not because I don't want to, I just haven't got around to It yet. One day perhaps I'll pick it up and look at It.

She stopped. It was as if her mind tripped on something. Her eye was caught by a dish-towel in the middle of the kitchen table. Slowly she moved toward the table. One half of it was wiped clean, the other half messy. Her eyes made a slow, almost unwilling turn to the bucket of sugar and the half empty bag beside it. Things begun—and not finished.

I think of myself as something of a connoisseur of procrastination, creative and dogged in my approach to not getting things done.

It (becoming disheartened) is insidious, buried, sticky . . . like a weird smell you can't quite pinpoint and eventually get used to. Becoming disheartened is actually one of three forms of laziness; the others are procrastination and being too busy.

quiddling' (attending to the trivial tasks in life as a way of avoiding the important ones).

That's the way it is--you have a thought, a dream, an idea in your head . . . and you do nothing to make it happen. Then one day, boom, just like that, you get up and go.