PROCRASTINATION QUOTES II

quotations about procrastination

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The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.

JORGE LUIS BORGES
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"Funes El Memorioso", Ficciones


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Tags: Jorge Luis Borges


True wisdom advises no delay; true interest will not procrastinate.

CHARLES HAMMOND

attributed, Day's Collacon


Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

MARTHE TROLY-CURTIN

Phrynette Married


Beware of the thief of time, procrastination; this day is as convenient as tomorrow; this day is yours, tomorrow is not; this day is a day of mercy, tomorrow may be a day of doom.

EDWARD IRVING

For the Oracles of God: Four Orations


Just do it! Doing today what shouldn't be left for tomorrow produces yesterdays devoid of regret. Procrastination is the devil in disguise.

GREG ASIMAKOUPOULOS

"Some of Life's Simple ABCs for Graduates", Chicago Daily Herald, June 6, 2016


I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.

DOUGLAS ADAMS

The Salmon of Doubt

Tags: Douglas Adams


Procrastination is your body telling you you need to back off a bit and think more about what you are doing.

JAMES ALTUCHER

attributed, "#MondayMotivation", PayScale, May 16, 2016


What is deferred is not avoided.

THOMAS MORE

Utopia

Tags: Sir Thomas More


A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.

BILL WATTERSON

There's Treasure Everywhere: A Calvin and Hobbes Collection

Tags: Bill Watterson


The strangest thing about procrastination is that the only thing standing between you and the joy of completing your work is ... you.

MELISSA RAYWORTH

"Apps to keep you on task", Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, June 6, 2016


Someday is not a day of the week.

PHIL MCGRAW

The 20/20 Diet: Turn Your Weight Loss Vision Into Reality


Some persons appear to have been born half an hour too late, and chase that half hour through life, and are finally distanced in the race; for by procrastinating, they are always behind hand in everything.

L. C. JUDSON

attributed, Day's Collacon


Procrastination is the soul rebelling against entrapment.

NASSIM N. TALEB

The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms


Procrastination is the longest word in the language, but there's only one letter between its ends when they occupy their proper places in the alphabet.

GEORGE HORACE LORIMER

Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son

Tags: George Horace Lorimer


Procrastination is the lazy man's apology.

L. E. DE VERGNE TRESSAN

attributed, Day's Collacon


Procrastination is the foundation of all disasters.

PANDORA POIKILOS

Excuse Me, My Brains Have Stepped Out


My advice: Procrastinate now. Don't put it off.

ELLEN DEGENERES

attributed, The Stand-up Comedy Festival: Send in the Clowns

Tags: Ellen DeGeneres


I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

JEROME K. JEROME

Three Men in a Boat

Tags: Jerome K. Jerome


For two weeks I have been putting off something of importance that should be done. This is not the exception that proves the rule. It is the rule itself, and I am determined that this rule must be changed. Why didn't I set myself the task yesterday and do it? It isn't a hard thing to do once I start it. It is only the starting that troubles and this has been a trouble of mine for so many years that I am trying to analyze my own failure in the hope that a correct analysis may help somebody else who is troubled in like manner. What I should have done yesterday was easily the most important thing that confronted me and it is just as important today. Therefore, I cannot offer the excuse that something more important intervened. Such an excuse would be unworthy of my desire to be honest with myself. The task was not one that should have been set off for a more opportune time. Yesterday was the ideal time. But I did something else. The fact that I can't find nearly as much fault with myself today for my neglect of yesterday as I would have found with myself a few years ago for a similar neglect is the reason why I am analyzing my condition. I am in danger. I must settle once and for all, upon the reason and make it impossible for similar neglects to occur in the future.

WILLIAM HENRY MCMASTERS

"On Why Not Yesterday?", Originality and Other Essays


As a writer, I need an enormous amount of time alone. Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box, watching infomercials. It's a matter of doing everything you can to avoid writing, until it is about four in the morning and you reach the point where you have to write. Having anybody watching that or attempting to share it with me would be grisly.

PAUL RUDNICK

attributed, Pinterest