Procrastination Quotes
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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
William James -
My procrastination which has held me back was born of fear ... now I know that to conquer fear I must always act without hesitation and the flutters in my heart will vanish. Now I know that action reduces the lion of terror.... I will walk where the failure fears to walk.
Og Mandino
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Vagueness and procrastination are ever a comfort to the frail in spirit.
John Updike -
Every thing in human character goes to wreck, under the reign of procrastination, while prompt action gives to all things a corresponding and proportional life and energy.
William Alcott -
My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.
Charles Dickens -
It sometimes seems that we live as if we wonder when life is going to begin. It isn't always clear just what we are waiting for, but some of us sometimes persist in waiting so long that life slips by - finding us still waiting for something that has been going on all the time. . . . This is the life in which the work of this life is to be done. Today is as much a part of eternity as any day a thousand years ago or as will be any day a thousand years hence. This is it, whether we are thrilled or disappointed, busy or bored! This is life, and it is passing.
Richard L. Evans -
Drug use and procrastination often go hand in tourniquet.
Will Self -
Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.
Charles Dickens
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Procrastination is what we often call 'resistance.
William Peter Blatty -
Delay not till tomorrow to be wise; tomorrow's sun to thee may neve rise.
William Congreve -
Procrastination is probably my worst habit out of many. Especially when it comes to paperwork.
Tom Conti -
The time to begin most things is ten years ago.
Mignon McLaughlin -
If only I could master that demon of procrastination that goes about like a roaring lion and devours all my good intentions, I should become the most punctual man in the world.
Henrik Ibsen -
I used to think that when I set out that doing the research was enough! But then the gaps would emerge that could only be filled by the imagination. And imagination only comes when you privilege the subconscious, when you make delay and procrastination work for you.
Hilary Mantel
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Procrastination is the enemy of time and results in lost opportunity.
Bishop Noel Jones -
Addiction, self-sabotage, procrastination, laziness, rage, chronic fatigue, and depression are all ways that we withhold our full participation in the program of life we are offered. When the conscious mind cannot find a reason to say no, the unconscious says no in its own way.
Charles Eisenstein -
Indecisiveness and procrastination are the chosen ways of life for most people. They follow the course of least resistance, which is to do nothing. This provides a security blanket of never being wrong, never making mistakes, never being disappointed and never failing. But they will also never succeed.
David Peoples -
We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are either spent in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them.
Seneca the Younger -
The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings.
Thomas Sowell -
One of the great challenges of our age, in which the tools of our productivity are also the tools of our leisure, is to figure out how to make more useful those moments of procrastination when we're idling in front of our computer screens.
Joshua Foer
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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 -
What is the definition of procrastination? It means: I can feel within my Energy sensor that this action is not in perfect alignment at this time.
Esther Hicks -
Imagination only comes when you privilege the subconscious, when you make delay and procrastination work for you.
Hilary Mantel -
Procrastination is also a subtle act of corruption – it corrupts valuable time
Amit Abraham