PROCRASTINATION QUOTES III
quotations about procrastination
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Procrastination is the soul rebelling against entrapment.
NASSIM N. TALEB
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The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
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Procrastination is your body telling you you need to back off a bit and think more about what you are doing.
JAMES ALTUCHER
attributed, "#MondayMotivation", PayScale, May 16, 2016
Putting off an easy thing makes it hard. Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.
GEORGE HORACE LORIMER
Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son
Some persons appear to have been born half an hour too late, and chase that half hour through life, and are finally distanced in the race; for by procrastinating, they are always behind hand in everything.
L. C. JUDSON
attributed, Day's Collacon
We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
ERICA JONG
Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life
When faced with two equally tough choices, most people choose the third choice: to not choose.
JAROD KINTZ
This Book Title is Invisible
Procrastination has been called a thief, the thief of time; I wish it were no worse than a thief. It is a murderer; and that which it kills is not time merely, but the immortal soul.
WILLIAM NEVINS
Earnest Appeals
Procrastination is opportunity's natural assassin.
VICTOR KIAM
Going for It!
Procrastination is the lazy man's apology.
L. E. DE VERGNE TRESSAN
attributed, Day's Collacon
The procrastinator is not only indolent and weak, but commonly false too.
LAVATER
attributed, Day's Collacon
A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.
BILL WATTERSON
There's Treasure Everywhere: A Calvin and Hobbes Collection
As a writer, I need an enormous amount of time alone. Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box, watching infomercials. It's a matter of doing everything you can to avoid writing, until it is about four in the morning and you reach the point where you have to write. Having anybody watching that or attempting to share it with me would be grisly.
PAUL RUDNICK
attributed, Pinterest
Procrastination is a ring on every man's finger.
CAIUS VIBIUS TREBONIANUS GALLUS
attributed, Day's Collacon
Procrastination is like a credit card: it's a lot of fun until you get the bill.
CHRISTOPHER PARKER
attributed, The Psychology of Procrastination
Someday is not a day of the week.
PHIL MCGRAW
The 20/20 Diet: Turn Your Weight Loss Vision Into Reality
The strangest thing about procrastination is that the only thing standing between you and the joy of completing your work is ... you.
MELISSA RAYWORTH
"Apps to keep you on task", Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, June 6, 2016
Time is a created thing. To say "I don't have time" is to say "I don't want to."
LAO TZU
attributed, O Magazine, January 2007
By the streets of "by and by" one arrives at the house of "never."
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
Don Quixote
How dangerous to procrastinate those momentous reformations which conscience is solemnly preaching to the heart.
JOHN FOSTER
The Life and Thoughts of John Foster
If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you'll find you've done it.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
attributed, Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing