Quotes About Procrastination

As far as I can tell, they never get up before noon unless there's some sort of national emergency, like my leg hair.

For me, it´s sloth," I say. "Hedonistic sloth and escapism.

So many financial dreams are thwarted by the failure to act upon good intentions.

I'm such a magpie. I'll get halfway through one thing and pick up something else. I always have 5 or 6 books open and spine-up by my bed: it's like a row of tents. I don't finish nearly as many books as I should.

I know how lazy I am. So if I have to go somewhere else I can't get to easily, I talk myself out of it.

I didn't want to look back in 10 or 20 years and say, 'Yes, I always wanted to write that piano sonata or that novel, but I never had time.'

If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.

I would have answered your letter sooner, but you didn't send one.

There has been a great laziness in my soul. Lots of days I could write songs, but I could also take my $400 and play the slot machines at the riverfront casino.

Oh no. I'm not gonna let you leave yet. I'm gonna show you the value of takin' your time to get to work. I probably should have done this a long time ago.

Perfectionism is a disease. Procrastination is a disease. ACTION is the cure.

Her mind is a mess, and she has no intention of cleaning today.

Most of us go through life as failures, because we are waiting for the time to be right to start doing something worthwhile. Do not wait. The time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Face It Some people fancy that to Dodge some work that they ought to do is about the easiest possible thing to do. The truth is, however, it is always easier to walk right up to your work and — Pace It. No one but laggards dig up excuses for Dodging what they should Face.

The Successful are they that See and Do — the Unsuccessful are they that See — and do not Do.

Indecision and procrastination are twin brothers. Where one is found, the other may usually be found also.

Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.

Indecision and procrastination are twin brothers.

Procrastination, the opposite of decision, is a common enemy which practically every man must conquer.

Don't wait! The time will never be just right.

Nu astepta - niciodata nu va fi momentul potrivit.

Indecision and procrastination are twin brothers. Where one is found, the other may usually be found also. Kill off this pair before they completely hog-tie you to the treadmill of failure.

Since procrastination is a message from our natural willpower via low motivation, the cure is changing the environment, or one's profession, by selecting one in which one does not have to fight one's impulses. Few can grasp the logical consequence that, instead, one should lead a life in which procrastination is good, as a naturalistic-risk-based form of decision making.

I once procrastinated and kept delaying a spinal cord operation as a response to a back injury—and was completely cured of the back problem after a hiking vacation in the Alps, followed by weight-lifting sessions. These psychologists and economists want me to kill my naturalistic instinct (the inner b****t detector) that allowed me to delay the elective operation and minimize the risks—an insult to the antifragility of our bodies.