Quotes About Procrastination

If you have a million things to do, adding item number 1,000,001 is not such a big deal. When, on the other hand, you have nothing to do, getting out of bed and washing yourself before 2:00 P.M. feels like too much work to even contemplate.

I set the time on my iPhone to be 30 minutes late, so I'm only an hour and a half late to appointments now.

I missed a few key basketball games, AAU games, because I didn't finish my homework.

I don't want an opportunity to go missing because of my lack of organization.

Once, my writing-avoidance behavior involved me mixing up a cleaning concoction and getting some ancient stains out of the carpet. My wife liked that one.

The way I work, typically, I do everything at the very last minute. Even if I was given two months, I'd do it in the last three days.

I'm very finicky about when I'm in the right mood to write. So most days, I find some excuse not to do anything.

People think, 'If I could only get motivated, then I'll act.' Nope. In actuality, it's the opposite.

We need a pretty substantial favor." She pointed at Crawford and herself. "He and I want to get married. Uh, Father Cyprian, this is John Crawford, and this is our daughter, Johanna." The priest nodded sympathetically. "One does tend to keep putting these things off, doesn't one?

Hoping is what people do when they're too lazy to do anything else. People

Mr. President. Douglas MacArthur said every military disaster can be explained in two words: 'Too late.

Why procrastinate when you can precognitate?

He could not put down a word without suspecting that it might be the wrong one and that if he held back for another day the intermediate experience would provide the right one. There was no end to that, and Moon fearfully glimpsed himself as a pure writer who after a lifetime of absolutely no output whatsoever, would prepare on his deathbed the single sentence which was the distillation of everything he had saved up, and die before he was able to utter it.

Become who you want to be while you can enjoy it. Don't put off doing the work of becoming who you want to be. Waiting will not make it easier, and time is short.

In spite of all our speeding it's still the style to be late.

They wonder why everyone waits to send the note, make the call, say the one thing you know you should say.

we] have a mighty dislike of all intentional effort and are addicted to absolute laziness until circumstances prod [us] into action.

Laziness is a serious illness and one must cure it immediately; yes, even from early childhood. If not, it will kill you in the end.

Most people spend more time planning grocery lists than thinking about their future.

Don't put off until tomorrow what can be done today. Procrastination is a sign of weak character.

My favorite machine at the gym is the vending machine.

But anyways I stopped to put gas in it, I haven't started it yet myself

Indecision leads to inaction, which leads to low energy, depression, despair.

Un bon projet exécuté tout de suite vaut mieux qu'un excellent projet exécuté la semaine prochaine.