Begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it were the only one we had. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
You should not have idle hands, you should always be working. All your life. — Ivan Bunin Copy Share Image
The pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life. — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it. — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
Idleness is the only refuge of weak minds, and the holiday of fools — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Change is hard because people wear themselves out. And that’s the second surprise about change: What looks like laziness is often exhaustion. — Chip Heath Copy Share Image
“Extension of ourselves or moving out against the inertia of laziness we call work. Moving out in the face of fear we… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
That 'Aww crap!' moment when your mom is almost home and you look around and haven't done anything she told you to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
half the good intentions of my life have been frustrated by my unfortunate habit of putting things off till to-morrow. — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
“The distance between your Dreams and Reality is inversely proportional to your Efforts.” — Vineet Raj Kapoor Copy Share Image
“Clutter is the physical manifestation of unmade decisions fueled by procrastination” — Christina Scalise Copy Share Image
“PROCRASTINATION. The habit of putting off until tomorrow that which should have been done last year.” — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don't mind hard work where there is no definite object of any kind.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Distraction and procrastination come in a variety of flavors... when I'm distracted and I walk over and stare out the window, it's… — Linda Stone Copy Share Image
Every day our garments become more assimilated to ourselves, receiving the impress of the wearer's character, until we hesitate tolay them aside… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Climate change has a very high procrastination penalty that just grows with each passing year of inaction - rather like what happens… — William H. Calvin Copy Share Image
Nothing, my dear and clever colleague, is not your run-of-the-mill nothing, the result of idleness and inactivity, but dynamic, aggressive Nothingness, that… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
I like movies. I've written screenplays as a sort of procrastination thing for me. Like I'll work for a couple months on… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
“What can we writers learn from lizards, lift from birds? In quickness is truth. The faster you blurt, the more swiftly you… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The really happy people are those who have broken the chains of procrastination, those who find satisfaction in doing the job at… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
I do think that procrastination evolved in humans for good reasons. If you're trying to stay alive as a human being on… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought to awaken… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“A Gift for You I send you... A cottage retreat on a hill in Ireland. This cottage is filled with fresh flowers,… — Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy (SARK Copy Share Image
“This is central to understanding the nature of motivation, as well as its failures (e.g., during depression, where there is inhibition of… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
I became interested in the delay, having sounds recorded and played back and then come back. I did many different configurations of… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
“During the act of making something, I experience a kind of blissful absence of the self and a loss of time. When… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
For the perfect accomplishment of any art, you must get this feeling of the eternal present into your bones - for it… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Straightway is a power word. Straightway is an action word. It means immediately, without delay or hesitation. It means at once. Also,… — Marvin J. Ashton Copy Share Image
“Winston Churchill, who abhorred laziness in other people, himself took a nap every afternoon. He defended his afternoon doze in practical terms… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
“Whatever you are waiting for won’t come to you; you have to go for it.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image