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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.

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.

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

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

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

For Yesterday was once To-morrow.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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 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.

Lost time is never found again.

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.

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

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

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.

Nothing is more burdensome than an unfinished task.

Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.

Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.

Nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.

One can never change the future by waiting 'till tomorrow.

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.

Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.

Procrastination also can be a way of self-handicapping: if you don't do a great job, you can always say to yourself, "If I'd only started sooner, I'd have been able to produce something excellent.

Our good purposes foreslowed are become our tormentors upon our deathbed.

Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things.

Procrastination is the soul rebelling against entrapment.

Procrastination, as it may be applied to Gospel principles, is the thief of eternal life - which is life in the presence of the Father and the Son. There are many among us, even members of the Church, who feel that there is no need for haste in the observance of Gospel principles and the keeping of the commandments.