Procrastination Quotes - page 2

A good procrastination should feel like you're inserting lots and lots of commas into the sentence of your life. (Ze Frank)
In the late 1930s, as Britain refused to adapt to the new realities of war, Winston Churchill observed, "The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays, is coming to a close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences." View quote
George W. Bush
Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy. View quote
Wayne Gretzky
Absolutely not. I'm an expert in procrastination, but the last thing I want you to think is that I'm incompetent, too. Because I'm actually pretty good at what I do." -Jo. View quote
Nicholas Sparks
"So, are you going to practice today?" asks my inner mom. "Well, sure. But I've got one more phone call to make. The dishes are dirty. I have to feed the cat." I don't hate practicing. I resist it. The goddess of procrastination can seduce me by lifting one eyebrow. After decades of practicing or avoiding the same, walking over to the piano remains the hardest part. View quote
Pete Seeger
The only way to push forward instead of wasting away in the purgatorial procrastination of worry is to just not care what the outcomes. I need to just start running downhill with my eyes shut. There are no guarantees that I will be able to survive this world, where the air is rare for minorities like myself. But that suits me just fine. I'm a risk taker that way. View quote
Margaret Cho
Doesn't reincarnation strike you as just another form of procrastination? View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
Procrastination is one of the most common causes of failure.... Procrastination stands within the shadow of every human being, waiting his opportunity to spoil one's chances of success. View quote
Napoleon Hill
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday. View quote
Napoleon Hill
If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination. Once begun upon this downward path, you never know where you are to stop. Many a man has dated his ruin from some murder or other that perhaps he thought little of at the time. View quote
Thomas De Quincey
The American Politician has developed into the gutless master of procrastination with a maximum of non-committal statement and the barest minimum of action. This moral vacuum is exceeded only by the apathetic public who allows him to stay in power. (Phil Ochs)
The scholar's greatest weakness: calling procrastination research. View quote
Stephen King
I'd be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I'd been given. I'd be more frightened by procrastination and laziness. View quote
Denzel Washington
Procrastination is not Laziness", I tell him. "It is fear. Call it by its right name, and forgive yourself. View quote
Julia Cameron
Avoiding Procrastination: Doing things at the last minute is much more expensive than just before the last minute. Deadlines are really important: establish them yourself! View quote
Randy Pausch
Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder. View quote
Mason Cooley
See, in general, as systems designers, you're forced with necessity to make decisions about how you're going to do things, and in general, the way you'd like to retain flexibility is to never make up your mind about anything until you're forced to do it. The problem is, there's a very, very narrow line between deferring decisions and outright procrastination. So you'd like to make progress, but also at the same time, never be bound by the consequences of your decisions. View quote
Hal Abelson
Procrastination is illogical from every viewpoint. It is like the man who wanted to cross the stream, so he sat on the bank to wait for all the water to run by. View quote
Vernon Howard
We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history there is such a thing as being too late. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Life often leaves us standing bare, naked, and dejected with a lost opportunity. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
No matter what you work on, you're not working on everything else. So the question is not how to avoid procrastination, but how to procrastinate well. There are three variants of procrastination, depending on what you do instead of working on something: you could work on (a) nothing, (b) something less important, or (c) something more important. That last type, I'd argue, is good procrastination. View quote
Paul Graham
The most dangerous form of procrastination is unacknowledged type-B procrastination [putting off important things to do unimportant things], because it doesn't feel like procrastination. You're "getting things done." (Paul Graham)
I think the way to "solve" the problem of procrastination is to let delight pull you instead of making a to-do list push you. View quote
Paul Graham
Perfectionism is the mother of procrastination. View quote
Michael Hyatt
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. View quote
Richard Paul Evans
Working is one of the most dangerous forms of procrastination. View quote
Gretchen Rubin