Quotes and Sayings About Procrastination
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How do you gag the voice in your head that says, 'You don't have to [do it] today. There's always tomorrow.'?
-- A. J. Jacobs -
The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
The era of procrastination...is coming to a close...we are entering a period of consequences - Winston Churchill (warning about the danger of appeasement
-- Al Gore -
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The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action.
-- Alexander Graham BellSource : Mary Kay Ash (1986). “Mary Kay”, Harper Perennial
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Procrastination is, hands down, our favorite form of self-sabotage.
-- Alyce Cornyn-Selby -
Procrastination is the grave in which opportunity is buried.
-- Alyce Cornyn-Selby -
Procrastination is also a subtle act of corruption – it corrupts valuable time
-- Amit Abraham -
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I think a lot of the basis of the open source movement comes from procrastinating students...
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Procrastination is suicide on the installment plan.
-- Arnold Bennett -
For Yesterday was once To-morrow.
-- Aulus Persius FlaccusSource : Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis, Aulus Persius Flaccus, John Dryden (1693). “The Satires, Translated Into English Verse by J. Dryden ... Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus Made English by Mr. Dryden”
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He who puts off nothing till tomorrow has done a great deal.
-- Baltasar Gracian -
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Once a job it has begun, do not stop until it's done. Whether it is big or small, do it well or not all.
-- Bear Grylls -
You made delay, but time will not, and lost time is never found again.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
To procrastinate seems inherent in man, for if you do to-day that you may enjoy to-morrow it is but deferring the enjoyment; so that to be idle or industrious, vicious or virtuous, is but with a view of procrastinating the one or the other.
-- Benjamin HaydonSource : Benjamin Robert Haydon, Frederick Wordsworth Haydon (1876). “Correspondence and Table-talk: With a Memoir”, p.294
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Your 'frog' should be the most difficult item on your things-to-do list, the one where you're most likely to procrastinate; because, if you eat that first, it'll give you energy and momentum for the rest of the day.
-- Brian Tracy -
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Clear, written goals have a wonderful effect on your thinking. They motivate you and galvanize you into action. They stimulate your creativity, release your energy, and help you to overcome procrastination as much as any other factor.
-- Brian Tracy -
Your success in life and work will be determined by the kinds of habits that you develop over time. The habit of setting priorities, overcoming procrastination, and getting on with your most important task is a mental and physical skill. As such, this habit is learnable through practice and repetition, over and over again, until it locks into your subsconscious mind and becomes a permanent part of your behaviour.
-- Brian Tracy -
Delay is the deadliest form of denial.
-- C. Northcote ParkinsonSource : The Law of Delay ch. 13 (1971)
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In putting off what one has to do, one runs the risk of never being able to do it.
-- Charles Baudelaire -
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My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.
-- Charles DickensSource : 'The Complaint: Night Thoughts' (1742-5) 'Night 1' l. 417
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Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.
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Addiction, self-sabotage, procrastination, laziness, rage, chronic fatigue, and depression are all ways that we withhold our full participation in the program of life we are offered. When the conscious mind cannot find a reason to say no, the unconscious says no in its own way.
-- Charles EisensteinSource : Charles Eisenstein (2013). “The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible”, p.2, North Atlantic Books
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Don't wait for extraordinary circumstance to do good; try to use ordinary situations.
-- Charles Francis Richter -
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Every duty which is bidden to wait returns with seven fresh duties at its back.
-- Charles KingsleySource : Charles Kingsley (1873). “Selections from Some of the Writings of the Rev. C. Kingsley, M.A.”, p.143
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The habit of always putting off an experience until you can afford it, or until the time is right, or until you know how to do it is one of the greatest burglars of joy. Be deliberate, but once you've made up your mind -jump in.
-- Charles R. Swindoll -
Procrastination is like a credit card: it's a lot of fun until you get the bill.
-- Christopher Parker -
The spot paintings, the spin paintings, they're all a mechanical way to avoid the actual guy in a room, myself, with a blank canvas.
-- Damien Hirst -
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Giving up on our long-term goals for immediate gratification, my friends, is procrastination.
-- Dan Ariely -
Perfectionism is not as much the desire for excellence, as it is the fear of failure couched in procrastination .
-- Dan MillerSource : Dan Miller (2015). “48 Days to the Work You Love: Preparing for the New Normal”, p.86, B&H Publishing Group