Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Sowell

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

Robert H. Schuller

Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary: impossible.

Richard L. Evans

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.

Robert Southwell

Lingering labors come to naught.

Wayne Dyer

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

Gretchen Rubin

Working is one of the most dangerous forms of procrastination.

Gretchen Rubin

Step by step, you make your way forward. That’s why practices such as daily writing exercises or keeping a daily blog can be so helpful. You see yourself do the work, which shows you that you can do the work. Progress is reassuring and inspiring; panic and then despair set in when you find yourself getting nothing done day after day. One of the painful ironies of work life is that the anxiety of procrastination often makes people even less likely to buckle down in the future.

Henry David Thoreau

Despair and postponement are cowardice and defeat. Men were born to succeed, not to fail.

James A. Michener

Don't put off for tomorrow what you can do today because if you enjoy it today, you can do it again tomorrow.

Esther Hicks

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.

Ernest Hemingway

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.

Horace

Tear thyself from delay.

Freema Agyeman

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

Fred Brooks

How does a project get to be a year behind schedule? One day at a time.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

He who awaits much can expect little.

George Horace Lorimer

Procrastination is the longest word in the language, but there's only one letter between its ends when they occupy their proper places in the alphabet.

George Horace Lorimer

Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.

Jean de la Bruyere

To delay is injustice.

Henry Miller

Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement.

Haile Selassie

Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.

Ellen DeGeneres

We went to lunch and were talking about procrastination and the waitress overheard us and she said, 'I have a problem with procrastination, too.' I said 'Really?... Get my sandwich.'

Hunter S. Thompson

A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.

Jackie Collins

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

Immanuel Kant

Procrastination is hardly more evil than grasping impatience.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Peace is more than a lofty ideal. It is a practical principle that, with conscious effort, can become a normal part of our lives as we deal with matters both large and small. One habit that prevents inner peace is procrastination. It clutters our minds with unfinished business and makes us uneasy until we finish a task and get it out of the way.

Jorge Luis Borges

The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.

Joanne Harris

I have an advanced degree in procrastination and another one in paranoia.

James Surowiecki

Addictive behavior is kind of the inverse of procrastination: procrastination is about not being able to do what you want to do, addiction about not being able to not do what you don't want to do (drink, use drugs, etc.)

James Surowiecki

One of the problems that exacerbates procrastination is the feeling that you have lots of different things to do and no clear sense of which matter more, when they should be done, etc.

James Surowiecki

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.

James Surowiecki

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.

Ellen DeGeneres

I have a terrible problem with procrastination... a friend told me, "Well, you should go to therapy." And I thought about it, but then I said, "Wait a minute. Why should I pay a stranger to listen to me talk when I can get strangers to pay to listen to me talk?" And that's when I got the idea of touring.

Epictetus

Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.