Life is a race. If you delay starting, how can you have any hope of winning? — Randall Wright Copy Share Image
“Writing is 10% inspiration,90% perspiration and 50% procrastination.” — Lucky Stevens Copy Share Image
“..it just seemed as if she were marking time while life rocketed past.” — Soheir Khashoggi Copy Share Image
Laziness has many disguises. Soon "winter doldrums" will become "spring fever." — Bernard Williams Copy Share Image
Our minds are as much given to laziness as our bodies. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Despair and postponement are cowardice and defeat. Men were born to succeed, not to fail. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Laziness is the one divine fragment of a godlike existence left to man from paradise. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
“ Get back to work , he would tell himself sternly. There's a garuda to get airborne. ” — China Miéville Copy Share Image
Few understand that procrastination is our natural defense, letting things take care of themselves and exercise their antifragility. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“It would be better to try to awake the reader’s critical instincts than to appeal to his laziness.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as tomorrow. If tomorrow comes we'll not call it tomorrow, we will call it today. — Michael Angelo De Leon Copy Share Image
Idleness - a job that you have to go to, but not necessarily do anything - is the poet's friend. — John Cooper Clarke Copy Share Image
Once I finished, I got that procrastination monkey off my back! And I started seeing doors opening. — Eric Thomas Copy Share Image
When you procrastinate, you're more likely to let your mind wander. That gives you a better chance of stumbling onto the unusual… — Adam Grant Copy Share Image
There is large difference between indolent impatience of labor and intellectual impatience of delay, large difference between leaving things unfinished because we… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“I think I could learn a little patience with myself if I took a view of myself that included concepts like dormancy… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
'Never put off tomorrow what you can do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent morality, I am forever letting tomorrow's work… — J. A. Spender Copy Share Image
I have a terrible problem with procrastination. A friend told me, "Well, you should go to therapy." And I thought about it,… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
“It's like I have a sensor in my head, but she works on a seven-second delay... well-meaning, but perpetually about seven seconds… — Jenny Lawson Copy Share Image
“Procrastination is the enemy of accomplishment—not simply because the task you are avoiding fails to get done, but because all of your… — Darren Main Copy Share Image
The habit of always putting off an experience until you can afford it, or until the time is right, or until you… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
Timing is everything. Tell me how a young man spends his evenings and I will tell you how far he is likely… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
“It was a good thing, we told ourselves; the eyes grow weary with looking at new things; sleeping late, we said, has… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“If you can't do what you long to do, go do something else. Go walk the dog, go pick up every bit… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Imagine that a writer has to finish a novel in three months. The objective is clear; the problem is that the writer… — Hector Garcia Puigcerver Copy Share Image
“The law (of least effort) asserts that if there are several ways of achieving the same goal, people will eventually gravitate to… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
As a writer, I need an enormous amount of time alone. Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of… — Paul Rudnick Copy Share Image
“The longer I procrastinate on returning phone calls and emails, the more guilty I feel about it. The guilt I feel causes… — Allie Brosh Copy Share Image
“She longed for porch friendship, for the sticky, hot sensation of familiar female legs thrown over hers in companionship. She pined for… — Rebecca Wells Copy Share Image
