Quotes About Procrastination

One general, Fabius Maximus was nicknamed Cunctator, "the Procrastinator." He drove Hannibal, who had an obvious military superiority, crazy by avoiding and delaying engagement.

Few understand that procrastination is our natural defense, letting things take care of themselves and exercise their antifragility; it results from some ecological or naturalistic wisdom, and is not always bad—at an existential level, it is my body rebelling against its entrapment.

Procrastination turned out to be a way to let events take their course and give the activists the chance to change their minds before committing to irreversible policies.

Few understand that procrastination is our natural defense, letting things take care of themselves and exercise their antifragility; it results from some ecological or naturalistic wisdom

So I use procrastination as a message from my inner self and my deep evolutionary past to resist interventionism in my writing.

The benefits of procrastination apply similarly to medical procedures: we saw that procrastination protects you from error as it gives nature a chance to do its job, given the inconvenient fact that nature is less error-prone than scientists.

humans may have an instinct to procrastinate only when no life is in danger.

In fact we humans are very bad at filtering information, particularly short-term information, and procrastination can be a way for us to filter better, to resist the consequences of jumping on information, as we discuss next.

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.

I write only if I feel like it and only on a subject I feel like writing about - and the reader is no fool. So I use procrastination as a message from my inner self and my deep evolutionary past to resist interventionism in my writing.Yet some psychologists and behavioral economists seem to think that procrastination is a disease to be remedied and cured.

Thus, I can recognize that I have been unfair and hurtful to my child (or my spouse or my friend) and need to make amends. But I don't want to admit I made a mistake, so I procrastinate, claiming that I am still "thinking" about the situation. This is the opposite of living consciously. At a fundamental level, it is an avoidance of consciousness—avoidance of the meaning of what I am doing; avoidance of my motives; avoidance of my continuing cruelty.

It's called loitering, which is like littering with human beings as the trash.

Lethargy. It's a word I know, because it's in one of my father's favorite expressions. Lethargy breeds lethargy. It means the more you lie around doing nothing, the more you want to lie around doing nothing. Your limbs and your mind feel so heavy that it becomes a major effort just to lift your arm to channel surf.

We can put off things far more effectively than those doomed to die, because death has become the exception instead of the rule.

It's not that I don't want to, I'm just busy today. Can I throw you under a truck some other time?

No task is a long one but the task on which one dare not start. It becomes a nightmare.

It seemed better to delay thinking.

Manny, what are you doing working in auto parts?" "Resting. My ambition is handicapped by laziness.

once again I hear of somebody who is going to settle down and do their work, painting or writing or whatever, as soon as they get a better light installed, orassoonastheymovetoanew city, or as soon as they come back from the trip they have been planning, or as soon as . . . it's simple: they just don't want to do it, or they can't do it, otherwise they'd feel a burning itch from hell they could not ignore and "soon" would turn quickly into "now.

Hijo, aire y luz y tiempo y espacio no tienen nada que ver con la creación y no crean nada más que, quizá, una vida más larga para encontrar nuevas excusas para no hacerlo

I had to take a shit but instead I went into this shop to have a key made.

There's time enough, but none to spare.

Procrastination is a lazy man's apology.

PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE I have so much to do today. I can't possibly get it all done, so I'm not going to start.