Best 450 quotes in «procrastination quotes» category

Dare to begin! He who postpones living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

Concentrate on something useful. Having decided to achieve a task, achieve it at all costs.

Delay not till tomorrow to be wise; tomorrow's sun to thee may neve rise.

Death will be so quick to swoop on you; Gather merit till that moment comes! Wait till then to banish laziness? Then there'll be no time, what will you do? "This I have not done. And this I'm only starting. And this - I'm only halfway through ..." Then is the sudden coming of the Lord of Death, And oh, the thought 'Alas, I'm finished.'

Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends.

Doesn't reincarnation strike you as just another form of procrastination?

Do not act as if you had a thousand years to live.

Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect.

Don't be afraid of failure, be afraid of not trying in the first place.

Don't put off for tomorrow what you should do today.

Don't put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

Don't wait for extraordinary circumstance to do good; try to use ordinary situations.

Everyone who is taken by death asks for more time, while everyone who still has time makes excuses for procrastination.

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.

During a very busy life I have often been asked, "How did you manage to do it all?" The answer is very simple. It is because I did everything promptly.

He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise -begin!

Every duty which is bidden to wait returns with seven fresh duties at its back.

For Yesterday was once To-morrow.

If procrastination were a marketable skill, I'd be a real hot commodity.

I don't think of it as procrastination. I think of it as allowing my work to accumulate urgency.

I do think that procrastination evolved in humans for good reasons. If you're trying to stay alive as a human being on the savanna 20,000 years ago, worrying about what's right behind that bush is a lot more important than worrying about what might happen three weeks from now.

If something is worth doing right, it is worth doing right now.

If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.

If we screw it up, start over. Try something else.

If you are not ready today, you will be even less so tomorrow.

If you do not act on a suggestion at first, you grow dull to its message.

If you don't pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves.

If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!

I never put off till tomorrow what I can do the day after.

I'm going to stop putting things off, starting tomorrow!

I manage my time by prioritizing tasks, working smarter not harder, and by avoiding procrastination.

I once heard a sober alcoholic say that drinking never made him happy, but it made him feel like he was going to be happy in about fifteen minutes. That was exactly it, and I couldn't understand why the happiness never came, couldn't see the flaw in my thinking, couldn't see that alcohol kept me trapped in a world of illusion, procrastination, paralysis. I lived always in the future, never in the present. Next time, next time! Next time I drank it would be different, next time it would make me feel good again.

I think a lot of the basis of the open source movement comes from procrastinating students.

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

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.

Is not he imprudent, who, seeing the tide making haste towards him apace, will sleep till the sea overwhelms him?

It's a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you're ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now. And you may as well do it now. Generally speaking, now is as good a time as any.

I think there is clearly a connection between free time and procrastination. The more you have of the former, all things being equal, the more likely you are to procrastinate.

It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the master work. Now, I'm beginning what I could have started ten years ago. But I'm happy at least that I didn't wait twenty years.

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.

I used to go online all the time, and then I had to stop myself... because I'm a writer, and it's like: to have a procrastination tool, like, within my computer... it was just getting too hairy.

I try to procrastinate, if I can, productively, like I'll work on something else as procrastination. Or I take a walk. Because often I find, if you get out, more things come to you.

I write at a standing desk, which has helped me be much more productive and solved some back problems, but mostly all my quirky habits have to do with procrastination and avoidance rather than with work. I'm slowly trying to stamp those out.

Life is a race. If you delay starting, how can you have any hope of winning?

Lost time is never found again.

Momentum is a fragile force. Its worst enemy: procrastination. Its best friend: a deadline (think Election Day). Implication no. 1 (and there is no no. 2): Get to work! NOW!

Most procrastination is largely indecision. Someone has said that "hell is just truth seen too late.

Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.

Nothing is more burdensome than an unfinished task.