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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God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.
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As far as police go, if officers are really that scared or timid on the streets, maybe they shouldn't be police officers. Their job is to protect and serve and they're supposed to be the bravest of the brave.
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Fear is our deepest and strongest emotion, and the one which best lends itself to the creation of nature-defying illusions.
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There’s no need to look at a machine to find what is twelve times twelve. The answer is indelibly there.
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In some of the middle colonies the towns and counties were both active and had a relation with each other which was the forerunner of the present system of local government in the Western States.
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Vagueness and procrastination are ever a comfort to the frail in spirit.
