John Updike Quotes

Vagueness and procrastination are ever a comfort to the frail in spirit.

John Updike

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• A good procrastination should feel like you're inserting lots and lots of commas into the sentence of your life.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Life
  • Good
  • Procrastination

• 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.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Life
  • God
  • Free

• 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.

  

  Flume
  • Mind
  • Why
  • Art

• 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!

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Important
  • Procrastination

• Few understand that procrastination is our natural defense, letting things take care of themselves and exercise their antifragility.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Exercise
  • Procrastination

• 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.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Water
  • Procrastination

• Use your time well. Everyone gets time equally. It doesn't matter how much money you make.

  

  Danny Meyer
  • Time
  • Money

• Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • Procrastination

• 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.

  

  Andrea Bocelli
  • Free
  • Fear

• 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.

  

  Emma Goldman
  • Mind
  • Character
  • American

• Procrastination is like a credit card: it's a lot of fun until you get the bill.

  

  Christopher Parker
  • Fun
  • Procrastination

• 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.

  

  James Surowiecki
  • People
  • Great
  • Happy

• I don't really want to do the Hollywood thing. I think you ought to try to say something with your movies.

  

  Elliot Page

• I swing between procrastination and being really thorough so either way things aren't getting done quickly.

  

  Freema Agyeman
  • Done
  • Procrastination

• I see procrastination and research as part of my artistic process.

  

  Lynn Nottage
  • Procrastination

• 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.

  

  Jen Sincero
  • Up
  • Good
  • Work

• 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.

  

  Christine Flores
  • Career

• The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance.

  

  John Rawls
  • Justice
  • Ignorance

• Climate change has a very high procrastination penalty that just grows with each passing year of inaction - rather like what happens if you don't pay off your credit card. But for climate, there is no such thing as a fresh start from bankruptcy.

  

  William H. Calvin
  • Climate
  • Procrastination
  • Fresh

• As I've progressed in my career, I've come to appreciate - and really value - the other attributes that define a company's success beyond the P&L: great leadership, long-term financial strength, ethical business practices, evolving business strategies, sound governance, powerful brands, values-based decision-making.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • Great
  • Long
  • Business

• [X-ray's] accidental discovery in the late 1800s fits seamlessly into modernity's fascination with, and belief in, the power of technological transparency: the desire to domesticate time (cinema), to preserve and capture the surface of the fleeting (photography), to see inside (x-ray).

  

  Walead Beshty
  • Time
  • Power
  • Desire

• Russia's main weaknesses are inflexibility and dependence on energy resources

  

  Christopher A. Pissarides
  • Energy
  • Weakness
  • Resources

• At the gym, I do full-body circuits with low weights and high repetitions, as well as four or five cardio intervals thrown into the mix. I put a lot of emphasis on core strength and flexibility training. I also do a lot of running in my free time. Anytime I can move my cardio outside in the sunshine, I do.

  

  Jill Wagner
  • Time
  • High
  • Free

• Vagueness and procrastination are ever a comfort to the frail in spirit.

  

  John Updike
  • Procrastination