Best 450 quotes in «procrastination quotes» category

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.

Lost time is never found again.

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!

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.

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

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.

Nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.

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.

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.

Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.

Procrastination most often arises from a sense that there is too much to do, and hence no single aspect of the to-do worth doing. . . . Underneath this rather antic form of action-as-inaction is the much more unsettling question whether anything is worth doing at all.

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.

Procrastination is another form of resistance

Procrastination is, hands down, our favorite form of self-sabotage.

Procrastination is suicide on the installment plan.

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

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 attitude's natural assassin. There's nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task

Procrastination isn't the problem. It's the solution. It's the universe's way of saying stop, slow down, you move too fast.

Procrastination is One of those Excuses, Born of Fear, that we Use to Keep Ourselves Stuck

Procrastination is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fled.

Procrastination is the beginning of poor performance.

Procrastination is what we often call 'resistance.

Prudence is not hesitation, procrastination, or moderation. It is not driving in the middle of the road. It is not the way of ambivalence, indecision, or safety.

Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.

Putting off an easy thing makes it hard. Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.

Tear thyself from delay.

Resisting a task is usually a sign that it's meaningful-which is why it's awakening your fears and stimulating procrastination. You could adopt "Do whatever you're resisting the most" as a philosophy of life.

The best way to deal with procrastination is to postpone it.

Reluctance to begin is quick to befriend procrastination. . . .

The assumption of time is one of humanity's greatest follies. We tell ourselves that there's always tomorrow, when we can no more predict tomorrow than we can the weather. Procrastination is the thief of dreams.

The most life destroying word of all is the word tomorrow.

The essence of procrastination lies in not doing what you think you should be doing, a mental contortion that surely accounts for the great psychic toll the habit takes on people. This is the perplexing thing about procrastination: although it seems to involve avoiding unpleasant tasks, indulging in it generally doesn't make people happy.

The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings.

The most pernicious aspect of procrastination is that it can become a habit. We don't just put off our lives today; we put them off till our deathbed.

The greatest amount of wasted time is the time not getting started.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

The procrastinator is not only indolent and weak, but commonly, false, too; most of the weak are false.

The really happy people are those who have broken the chains of procrastination, those who find satisfaction in doing the job at hand. They're full of eagerness, zest, productivity. You can be, too.

the obligation to express gratitude deepens with procrastination. The longer you wait, the more effusive must be the thanks.

There are a million ways to lose a work day, but not even a single way to get one back.

There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.

The surest way to be late is to have plenty of time