John Updike Quotes
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A good procrastination should feel like you're inserting lots and lots of commas into the sentence of your life.
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Realize that illness and other temporal setbacks often come to us from the hand of God our Lord, and are sent to help us know ourselves better, to free ourselves of the love of created things, and to reflect on the brevity of this life and, thus, to prepare ourselves for the life which is without end.
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For me, I would prefer to not have my face on the album cover. I don't mind being in the public, but it's just not really my personality, and it's not really why I'm into this. I like making art, and that's it. I don't really want to be a celebrity, seriously. I like my privacy.
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Avoiding Procrastination: Doing things at the last minute is much more expensive than just before the last minute. Deadlines are really important: establish them yourself!
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Few understand that procrastination is our natural defense, letting things take care of themselves and exercise their antifragility.
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Procrastination is illogical from every viewpoint. It is like the man who wanted to cross the stream, so he sat on the bank to wait for all the water to run by.
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Use your time well. Everyone gets time equally. It doesn't matter how much money you make.
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Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder.
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When I sing for myself, I sing in a more free, athletic way. When I face an audience, there is always some fear that makes me put the brakes on a bit.
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To the indefinite, uncertain mind of the American radical the most contradictory ideas and methods are possible. The result is a sad chaos in the radical movement, a sort of intellectual hash, which has neither taste nor character.
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Procrastination is like a credit card: it's a lot of fun until you get the bill.
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The essence of procrastination lies in not doing what you think you should be doing, a mental contortion that surely accounts for the great psychic toll the habit takes on people. This is the perplexing thing about procrastination: although it seems to involve avoiding unpleasant tasks, indulging in it generally doesn't make people happy.
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I don't really want to do the Hollywood thing. I think you ought to try to say something with your movies.
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I swing between procrastination and being really thorough so either way things aren't getting done quickly.
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I see procrastination and research as part of my artistic process.
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Perfectionism and procrastination have such a fine line. You say, 'Well, I want it to be good. I want it to be perfect.' But what you're really doing is not doing your work. You're putting off showing up and being visible because then you're going to be judged, and it might suck.
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I have always been a multitasker when it comes to my career; I've been an actress, a singer and everything because I love to do what I do.
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The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance.
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The writings of women are always cold and pretty like themselves. There is as much wit as you may desire, but never any soul.
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There are a lot of things that you see in the world ...We have a collection of gloves that have been run over by trucks that a friend named JP Williams collects. They are really beautiful. They look like sculpture. And he has a hundred pictures of them - we're making a book out of them. It's all that kind of ephemera, things that exist that no one really looks at unless it's put to them in a certain way.
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Everything I have experienced in my life helps form who I am today, and I would not change or forget any of it.
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The claims of existing social arrangements and of self interest have been duly allowed for. We cannot at the end count them a second time because we do not like the result.
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Vagueness and procrastination are ever a comfort to the frail in spirit.
