PROCRASTINATION QUOTES II
quotations about procrastination
Procrastination is the lazy man's apology.
L. E. DE VERGNE TRESSAN
attributed, Day's Collacon
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
Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
MARTHE TROLY-CURTIN
Phrynette Married
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
Procrastination is the foundation of all disasters.
PANDORA POIKILOS
Excuse Me, My Brains Have Stepped Out
They who procrastinate and defer the business of life, in things in which it is in their power to effect, sink into stupid and abject slavery, and show themselves unworthy of the talents with which human nature is dignified.
SAMUEL CROXALL
attributed, Day's Collacon
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
By the streets of "by and by" one arrives at the house of "never."
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
Don Quixote
True wisdom advises no delay; true interest will not procrastinate.
CHARLES HAMMOND
attributed, Day's Collacon
I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.
DOUGLAS ADAMS
The Salmon of Doubt
Do you know what happens when you give a procrastinator a good idea? Nothing!
DONALD GARDNER
attributed, The Psychology of Procrastination
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
We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
ERICA JONG
Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life
Procrastination is opportunity's natural assassin.
VICTOR KIAM
Going for It!
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 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
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
JEROME K. JEROME
Three Men in a Boat
Procrastination is the soul rebelling against entrapment.
NASSIM N. TALEB
The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
Someday is not a day of the week.
PHIL MCGRAW
The 20/20 Diet: Turn Your Weight Loss Vision Into Reality
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