quotations about procrastination
Procrastination is the foundation of all disasters.
PANDORA POIKILOS
Excuse Me, My Brains Have Stepped Out
Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
MARTHE TROLY-CURTIN
Phrynette Married
Procrastination is the lazy man's apology.
L. E. DE VERGNE TRESSAN
attributed, Day's Collacon
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
True wisdom advises no delay; true interest will not procrastinate.
CHARLES HAMMOND
attributed, Day's Collacon
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.
NICHOLAS SPARKS
Safe Haven
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
Do you know what happens when you give a procrastinator a good idea? Nothing!
DONALD GARDNER
attributed, The Psychology of Procrastination
What is deferred is not avoided.
THOMAS MORE
Utopia
Procrastination is the soul rebelling against entrapment.
NASSIM N. TALEB
The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
Don't fool yourself that important things can be put off til tomorrow; they can be put off forever, or not at all.
MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN
attributed, The Psychology of Procrastination
Procrastination is a ring on every man's finger.
CAIUS VIBIUS TREBONIANUS GALLUS
attributed, Day's Collacon
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
W. M. LEWIS
attributed, Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing
Procrastination is opportunity's natural assassin.
VICTOR KIAM
Going for It!
Habitual procrastinators will readily testify to all the lost opportunities, missed deadlines, failed relationships and even monetary losses incurred just because of one nasty habit of putting things off until it is often too late.
STEPHEN RICHARDS
The Secret of Getting Started
By the streets of "by and by" one arrives at the house of "never."
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
Don Quixote
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
The procrastinator is not only indolent and weak, but commonly false too.
LAVATER
attributed, Day's Collacon
My advice: Procrastinate now. Don't put it off.
ELLEN DEGENERES
attributed, The Stand-up Comedy Festival: Send in the Clowns
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