Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Chabon

Procrastination is something you do yourself. You know: "I gotta sharpen these pencils before I start. I got 20 pencils, they're looking kinda dull." Well, the pencils aren't calling you and alluring you and inviting you and offering you anything. They're just sitting there. You're the one who's procrastinating.

John C. Maxwell

Pay now, play later; play now, pay later.

Louise Hay

Procrastination is another form of resistance

James Madison

Procrastination in the beginning and precipitation towards the conclusion is the characteristic of such bodies.

Joan Konner

Procrastination always gives you something to look forward to.

Eric Thomas

Once I finished, I got that procrastination monkey off my back! And I started seeing doors opening.

Martin Luther

Who waits until circumstances completely favor his undertaking, will never accomplish anything.

Tom Conti

Procrastination is probably my worst habit out of many. Especially when it comes to paperwork.

James Altucher

Procrastination is your body telling you you need to back off a bit and think more about what you are doing.

Mary Todd Lincoln

My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season.

Lauryn Hill

I have a problem with procrastination. I have a great deal of difficulty deciding what to wear. It's a woman thing.

John Updike

Vagueness and procrastination are ever a comfort to the frail in spirit.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Procrastination is the soul rebelling against entrapment.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Few understand that procrastination is our natural defense, letting things take care of themselves and exercise their antifragility; it results from some ecological or naturalistic wisdom, and is not always bad -- at an existential level, it is my body rebelling against its entrapment. It is my soul fighting the Procrustean bed of modernity.

All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.

Peter Drucker

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

Noah Baumbach

When you find yourself on the Internet when you're supposed to be writing, you've already lost. It's even beyond procrastination when you end up on the Internet.

Noah Baumbach

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.

Mike White

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.

Miguel de Cervantes

By the streets of 'by and by,' one arrives at the house of 'never'.

John Ortberg

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.

John Flanagan

If and perhaps.... The language of procrastination and uncertainty. That's just people looking to justify their own lack of action.

Lisa Anderson

Fear stops a lot of people. Fear of failure, of the unknown, of risk. And it masks itself as procrastination.

Distraction and procrastination come in a variety of flavors... when I'm distracted and I walk over and stare out the window, it's a very different experience than when I feed the distraction by cramming in a few emails or make a phone call.

John Lyly

Nothing so perilous as procrastination

Jim Rohn

Nothing is more burdensome than an unfinished task.

Joseph Hall

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

Joshua Foer

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.

Kate Morton

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

Lisa Kleypas

I'm a big believer in putting things off, In fact, I even put off procrastinating. -Ella Varner

Rhonda Britten

The first is based in fear, the second in fearlessness.

Ovid

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

Paulo Coelho

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.