PROCRASTINATION QUOTES II

quotations about procrastination

Procrastination quote

Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

MARTHE TROLY-CURTIN

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Procrastination is the lazy man's apology.

L. E. DE VERGNE TRESSAN

attributed, Day's Collacon


Do you know what happens when you give a procrastinator a good idea? Nothing!

DONALD GARDNER

attributed, The Psychology of Procrastination


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


True wisdom advises no delay; true interest will not procrastinate.

CHARLES HAMMOND

attributed, Day's Collacon


Procrastination is the foundation of all disasters.

PANDORA POIKILOS

Excuse Me, My Brains Have Stepped Out


We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.

ERICA JONG

Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life

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Don't fool yourself that important things can be put off til tomorrow; they can be put off forever, or not at all.

MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN

attributed, The Psychology of Procrastination

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Procrastination is the soul rebelling against entrapment.

NASSIM N. TALEB

The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms


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

Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son

Tags: George Horace Lorimer


The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.

W. M. LEWIS

attributed, Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing


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

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My advice: Procrastinate now. Don't put it off.

ELLEN DEGENERES

attributed, The Stand-up Comedy Festival: Send in the Clowns

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Someday is not a day of the week.

PHIL MCGRAW

The 20/20 Diet: Turn Your Weight Loss Vision Into Reality


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.

NICHOLAS SPARKS

Safe Haven

Tags: Nicholas Sparks


I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

JEROME K. JEROME

Three Men in a Boat

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When faced with two equally tough choices, most people choose the third choice: to not choose.

JAROD KINTZ

This Book Title is Invisible


Habitual procrastinators will readily testify to all the lost opportunities, missed deadlines, failed relationships and even monetary losses incurred just because of one nasty habit of putting things off until it is often too late.

STEPHEN RICHARDS

The Secret of Getting Started


Procrastination is like a credit card: it's a lot of fun until you get the bill.

CHRISTOPHER PARKER

attributed, The Psychology of Procrastination


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