Procrastination Quotes
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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!
Randy Pausch -
Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
Wayne Gretzky
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Procrastination is the thief of time.
Edward Young -
Never put off until tomorrow what you can put off forever.
P. J. Plauger -
'Purple Plumeria' I dithered over for months and then wrote the whole thing between the beginning of July and end of August. The dithering and procrastination time was three times the writing times.
Lauren Willig -
Procrastination comes in two types. Some of us procrastinate in order to pursue restful activities - spending time in bed, watching TV - while others delay difficult or unpleasant tasks in favor of those that are more fun.
Daniel Levitin -
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
Napoleon Hill -
I have a terrible problem with procrastination... a friend told me, 'Well, you should go to therapy.' And I thought about it, but then I said, 'Wait a minute. Why should I pay a stranger to listen to me talk when I can get strangers to pay to listen to me talk?' And that's when I got the idea of touring.
Ellen DeGeneres
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Procrastination is the soul rebelling against entrapment.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
If you want to be certain, you should never get married. You should never change jobs. In fact, you might as well just stay home. Because I don't know anybody who is certain. That need to be certain is just procrastination.
Mark Burnett -
Prudence is not hesitation, procrastination, or moderation. It is not driving in the middle of the road. It is not the way of ambivalence, indecision, or safety.
John Ortberg -
Academics, who work for long periods in a self-directed fashion, may be especially prone to putting things off: surveys suggest that the vast majority of college students procrastinate, and articles in the literature of procrastination often allude to the author's own problems with finishing the piece.
James Surowiecki -
Procrastination gives you time to consider divergent ideas, to think in nonlinear ways, to make unexpected leaps.
Adam Grant -
Delaying gratification is a process of scheduling the pain and pleasure of life in such a way as to enhance the pleasure by meeting and experiencing the pain first and getting it over with. It is the only decent way to live.
M. Scott Peck
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Procrastination is like a credit card: it's a lot of fun until you get the bill.
Christopher Parker -
Procrastination is hardly more evil than grasping impatience.
Immanuel Kant -
Procrastination is opportunity's assassin.
Victor Kiam -
Straightway is a power word. Straightway is an action word. It means immediately, without delay or hesitation. It means at once. Also, it is associated with having no curve or turn-a straight course, track, or path. Procrastination would be the very opposite of straightway. To procrastinate is to put off intentionally and habitually something that should be done. Procrastination is unproductive delay.
Marvin J. Ashton -
A good procrastination should feel like you're inserting lots and lots of commas into the sentence of your life.
Ze Frank -
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
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I swing between procrastination and being really thorough so either way things aren't getting done quickly.
Freema Agyeman -
I've never been a fan of pretense or procrastination. After all, our state is defined by its independent, outspoken spirit.
Gavin Newsom -
I have a funny process : it’s called procrastination.
K. K. Barrett -
I'd be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I'd been given. I'd be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.
Denzel Washington