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  • In my office...I have a little sign and it says, 'Do it!' I suppose if I have learned anything in life, it is that we are to keep moving, keep trying-as long as we breathe! If we do, we will be surprised at how much more can still be done.

  • The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences.

    Sir Winston S. Churchill (2013). “Never Give In!: Winston Churchill's Speeches”, p.126, A&C Black
  • My favorite procrastination is to make the choice to have valuable times with human beings that I care about instead of holing myself up alone to get my work done.

    Source: www.omnivoracious.com
  • I like movies. I've written screenplays as a sort of procrastination thing for me. Like I'll work for a couple months on this idea that's been kicking around and then like 30 pages in I'll just go try a novel because it's a lot easier. That's what I know. So why am I killing myself?

    Source: therumpus.net
  • I have a funny process : it’s called procrastination.

  • There is, by God's grace, an immeasurable distance between late and too late.

  • Everyone who is taken by death asks for more time, while everyone who still has time makes excuses for procrastination.

    Wisdom   Taken   Islamic  
  • Procrastination is attitude's natural assassin. There's nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task

  • You may delay, but time will not.

    Benjamin Franklin (1998). “Benjamin Franklin Wit and Wisdom”, p.43, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.
  • If we are to achieve long-range goals, we must learn to set up and accomplish short-range goals that will move us along the way. If we do not consciously select our goals, we may be controlled by goals not of our own choosing - goals imposed by outside pressures (such as the expectations of others) or by our habits (such as procrastination) or by our desire for the approval of the world.

  • Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.

    Abraham Lincoln (2008). “Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.49, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind

  • Straightway is a power word. Straightway is an action word. It means immediately, without delay or hesitation. It means at once. Also, it is associated with having no curve or turn-a straight course, track, or path. Procrastination would be the very opposite of straightway. To procrastinate is to put off intentionally and habitually something that should be done. Procrastination is unproductive delay.

    Marvin J. Ashton (1987). “Be of Good Cheer”, Deseret Book Co
  • Did I become court composer through masterful procrastination? Hardly!

  • Procrastination most often arises from a sense that there is too much to do, and hence no single aspect of the to-do worth doing. . . . Underneath this rather antic form of action-as-inaction is the much more unsettling question whether anything is worth doing at all.

    "Later" by James Surowiecki, www.newyorker.com. October 11, 2010.
  • Nothing was ever done so systematically as nothing is being done now.

    Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1983). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”
  • Do not say, 'When I have leisure, I will study,' because you may never have leisure.

  • One thing that's good about procrastination is that you always have something planned for tomorrow.

    "Women Know Everything!: 3,241 Quips, Quotes, and Brilliant Remarks". Book by Karen Weekes, p. 480, March 29, 2007.
  • Space we can recover; time never.

  • Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.

    Jawaharlal Nehru (1960). “Freedom from Fear: Reflections on the Personality and Teachings of Gandhi”
  • Never put off till tomorrow what you can do day after tomorrow just as well.

    Funny   Life   Sarcastic  
    "Mark Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, and Essays Vol. 1 1852-1890".
  • 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.

  • Climate change has a very high procrastination penalty that just grows with each passing year of inaction - rather like what happens if you don't pay off your credit card. But for climate, there is no such thing as a fresh start from bankruptcy.

  • Resisting a task is usually a sign that it's meaningful-which is why it's awakening your fears and stimulating procrastination. You could adopt "Do whatever you're resisting the most" as a philosophy of life.

    Oliver Burkeman (2011). “HELP!: How to Become Slightly Happier and Get a Bit More Done”, p.116, Canongate Books
  • He who hesitates is a damned fool.

    Funny   Witty   Humorous  
  • Perfectionism is the mother of procrastination.

    FaceBook post by Michael Hyatt from May 21, 2012
  • There is no dallying with God .

    James Ussher, Joseph Crabb, Stanley Gower (1660). “Eighteen sermons preached in Oxford 1640: Of conversion, unto God. Of redemption, & justification, by Christ. By the Right Reverend James Usher, late Bishop of Armagh in Ireland. Published by Jos: Crabb. Will: Ball. Tho: Lye. ministers of the Gospel, who writ them from his mouth, and compared their copies together. With a preface concerning the life of the pious author, by the Reverend Stanly Gower, sometime chaplain to the said bishop. Now minister in Dorchester”, p.9
  • One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living.

    Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to stop worrying & start living”, p.22, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd
  • Procrastination is the best action against putting an ankle bracelet on future.

  • If something is worth doing right, it is worth doing right now.

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