Procrastination Quotes
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There was a lot of procrastination on Cameron's part because of the personal nature of 'Almost Famous.' There was a lot of deep, dark doubt about even doing it. I don't mind being a cheerleader, but I did reach my limit quite a few times. I do my own writing, so I understand, but I was pushed to the point of anger with the insecurity of it.
Nancy Wilson Heart
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Reluctance to begin is quick to befriend procrastination. . . .
Kate Morton
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The best way to deal with procrastination is to postpone it.
Anthony Robbins
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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
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Clear, written goals have a wonderful effect on your thinking. They motivate you and galvanize you into action. They stimulate your creativity, release your energy, and help you to overcome procrastination as much as any other factor.
Brian Tracy
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My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.
Charles Dickens
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Procrastination is what we often call 'resistance.
William Peter Blatty
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Vagueness and procrastination are ever a comfort to the frail in spirit.
John Updike
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Procrastination is the grave in which opportunity is buried.
Alyce Cornyn-Selby
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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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Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends.
William Shakespeare
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Imagination only comes when you privilege the subconscious, when you make delay and procrastination work for you.
Hilary Mantel
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Drug use and procrastination often go hand in tourniquet.
Will Self
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In delay there lies no plenty.
William Shakespeare
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Procrastination is, hands down, our favorite form of self-sabotage.
Alyce Cornyn-Selby
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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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Procrastination is probably my worst habit out of many. Especially when it comes to paperwork.
Tom Conti
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The time to begin most things is ten years ago.
Mignon McLaughlin
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Procrastination is the enemy of time and results in lost opportunity.
Bishop Noel Jones
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Delay not till tomorrow to be wise; tomorrow's sun to thee may neve rise.
William Congreve