Grant us a brief delay; impulse in everything is but a worthless servant. — Caecilius Statius Copy Share Image
In the conduct of almost every affair slowness and procrastination are hateful — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Successful people know the difference between patience and procrastination. — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
“Bruce Sterling said, “Chaos is the sexiest excuse for laziness ever invented.” — Kevin Horsley Copy Share Image
A custom built feeling, born from laziness, rised by procrastination and fueled to fear. — Giuseppe Prestigiacomo Copy Share Image
Is not he imprudent, who, seeing the tide making haste towards him apace, will sleep till the sea overwhelms him? — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
Success comes to man who does today what others were thinking of doing tomorrow. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Life for delays and doubts no time does give, None ever yet made haste enough to live. — Abraham Cowley Copy Share Image
In putting off what one has to do, one runs the risk of never being able to do it. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“Your journey will proceed faster with a brief delay.’ In other words, don’t go off half-cocked, but don’t wait until the other… — Richard Phillips Copy Share Image
Procrastinate strategically... Procrastination may be the enemy of productivity but it can be a valuable resource for creativity. — Adam Grant Copy Share Image
“One can hardly do anything productive when one knows there is cake in the fridge.” — Joyce Rachelle Copy Share Image
“Hence! home, you idle creatures get you home: Is this a holiday? what! know you not, Being mechanical, you ought not walk… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
For all his understanding of worldly concerns, when it came to fathoming the deeper meaning of his own furious activity, Sir Bob… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Prudence is not hesitation, procrastination, or moderation. It is not driving in the middle of the road. It is not the way… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
Most executives have learned that what one postpones, one actually abandons ... timing is a most important element in the success of… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
“Just think of how many projects, travels, love affairs, studies it - our life - hides from us, made invisible by our… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
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… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
A few days of idleness have completely sickened me, and given me what is called the blue-devils so severely, that I feel… — John James Audubon Copy Share Image
I used to go online all the time, and then I had to stop myself... because I'm a writer, and it's like:… — Mike White Copy Share Image
“A brick could be used to show you how to live a richer, fuller, more satisfying life. Don’t you want to have… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
The most pernicious aspect of procrastination is that it can become a habit. We don't just put off our lives today; we… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“Then he went into the dining room, consulting his watch. It was ten thirty already. More than half the morning was gone.… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
The information glut has become a ruling cliche. As all resources - from energy to information - become more abundant, the presure… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
Progressively saved by the machine from the anxieties that bound his hands and mind to material toil, relieved of a large part… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
A general “law of least effort” applies to cognitive as well as physical exertion. The law asserts that if there are several… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information. It seems almost un-American to… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
I am a lazy man. Laziness keeps me from believing that enlightenment demands effort, discipline, strict diet, non-smoking, and other evidences of… — Thaddeus Golas Copy Share Image
Shun idleness. It is rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
