Procrastination Quotes
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If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done.
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Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder.
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For me, most of the anxiety and difficulty of writing takes place in the act of not writing. It's the procrastination, the thinking about writing that's difficult.
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Procrastination is your body telling you you need to back off a bit and think more about what you are doing.
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I think the worst and most insidious procrastination for me is research. I will be looking for some bit of fact or figure to include in the novel, and before I know, I've wasted an entire morning delving into that subject matter without a word written.
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You must master the habit of procrastination and eliminate it from your wake-up. This habit of putting off until tomorrow that which you should have done last week or last year or a score of years ago is gnawing at the very vitals of your being and you can accomplish nothing until you throw it off.
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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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Procrastination is a deadly weapon of human progress.
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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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Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until he knew enough to write them well. Well, he would not have to fail at trying to write them either. Maybe you could never write them, and that was why you put them off and delayed the starting. Well he would never know, now.
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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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Delay leads impotent and snail-paced beggary.
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Procrastination is still the thief of time.
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Procrastination can be driven from your personality through the simple technique of constantly commanding yourself to get into action . . . and then obeying that command immediately.
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There's nothing wrong with procrastination. Or is there? I'll leave it to you to decide, but only if you have the time.
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Did I become court composer through masterful procrastination? Hardly!
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God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.
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How comfortable some of us become as we nestle in the web of procrastination. It is a false haven of rest for those who are content to live without purpose, commitment, or self-discipline.
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I have an advanced degree in procrastination and another one in paranoia.
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The minimum I need is six months to allow for dithering, procrastination and the research. The research times varies from book to book; some are faster because they're based off resources I have at my disposal.
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Is not he imprudent, who, seeing the tide making haste towards him apace, will sleep till the sea overwhelms him?
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We are faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words ‘Too Late’.
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Perfectionism is not as much the desire for excellence, as it is the fear of failure couched in procrastination .
