PROCRASTINATION QUOTES II
quotations about procrastination
Procrastination is the lazy man's apology.
L. E. DE VERGNE TRESSAN
attributed, Day's Collacon
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
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
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
By the streets of "by and by" one arrives at the house of "never."
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
Don Quixote
Procrastination is the foundation of all disasters.
PANDORA POIKILOS
Excuse Me, My Brains Have Stepped Out
True wisdom advises no delay; true interest will not procrastinate.
CHARLES HAMMOND
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
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
I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.
DOUGLAS ADAMS
The Salmon of Doubt
Procrastination is the soul rebelling against entrapment.
NASSIM N. TALEB
The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
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
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
Crunch time. Cramming. Waiting until the very last minute. These words conjure the exhilarating adrenaline rush that I, for one, am prone to humblebrag about, like I do about being overly busy or super-tired. It sounds better to say that procrastinating allows me to do my best work than to admit I have poor time management and mediocre self-discipline. But what I have long thought to be a weakness may actually be a secret weapon for creative success. As it turns out, the time we spend not completing our to-dos may be the thing that gives us the boost of divergent thought we need to create better solutions.
LINDSAY SCHLEGEL
"Is Procrastinating Your Secret Weapon For Success?", Verily, June 6, 2016
How dangerous to procrastinate those momentous reformations which conscience is solemnly preaching to the heart.
JOHN FOSTER
The Life and Thoughts of John Foster
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
JEROME K. JEROME
Three Men in a Boat
My advice: Procrastinate now. Don't put it off.
ELLEN DEGENERES
attributed, The Stand-up Comedy Festival: Send in the Clowns
Procrastination has been called a thief, the thief of time; I wish it were no worse than a thief. It is a murderer; and that which it kills is not time merely, but the immortal soul.
WILLIAM NEVINS
Earnest Appeals