PROCRASTINATION QUOTES II
quotations about procrastination
Procrastination is like a credit card: it's a lot of fun until you get the bill.
CHRISTOPHER PARKER
attributed, The Psychology of Procrastination
Someday is not a day of the week.
PHIL MCGRAW
The 20/20 Diet: Turn Your Weight Loss Vision Into Reality
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
True wisdom advises no delay; true interest will not procrastinate.
CHARLES HAMMOND
attributed, Day's Collacon
Procrastination is the lazy man's apology.
L. E. DE VERGNE TRESSAN
attributed, Day's Collacon
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
The procrastinator is not only indolent and weak, but commonly false too.
LAVATER
attributed, Day's Collacon
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
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
How dangerous to procrastinate those momentous reformations which conscience is solemnly preaching to the heart.
JOHN FOSTER
The Life and Thoughts of John Foster
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
By the streets of "by and by" one arrives at the house of "never."
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
Don Quixote
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
Procrastination is a ring on every man's finger.
CAIUS VIBIUS TREBONIANUS GALLUS
attributed, Day's Collacon
I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.
DOUGLAS ADAMS
The Salmon of Doubt
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
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
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
JEROME K. JEROME
Three Men in a Boat
Time is a created thing. To say "I don't have time" is to say "I don't want to."
LAO TZU
attributed, O Magazine, January 2007
Procrastination is the soul rebelling against entrapment.
NASSIM N. TALEB
The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms