“Bruce Sterling said, “Chaos is the sexiest excuse for laziness ever invented.” — Kevin Horsley Copy Share Image
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
I think a lot of the basis of the open source movement comes from procrastinating students... — Andrew Tridgell Copy Share Image
Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
Give not reins to your inflamed passions: take time and a little delay; impetuosity manages all things badly. — Statius Copy Share Image
That scary moment when you're about to go to bed and then you realize you had homework. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. — Denis Waitley Copy Share Image
Every delay that postpones our joys, is long. [Lat., Longa mora est nobis omnis, quae gaudia differt.] — Ovid Copy Share Image
“If you choose to not deal with an issue, then you give up your right of control over the issue and it… — Susan Del Gatto Copy Share Image
Heres to the inventor of the snooze button; Nothing like making procrastination your first action of the day! — Df Copy Share Image
That was the year, my twenty-eighth, when I was discovering that not all of the promises would be kept, that some things… — Joan Didion 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
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
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 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 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
Go ahead and do things, the bigger the better, if your fundamentals are sound. Avoid procrastination. Do not quibble for an hour… — John J. Raskob 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
“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
“At twenty years old, Michael had vague plans to make changes in his life, but turning blue whilst stood in a walk-in… — Dylan Perry Copy Share Image
We can be of so much service to others in many thou-shalt ways. Of course, the problem is that rendering such service… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
“We often procrastinate for one of three reasons: (1) we don’t really need to do something or it isn’t very important, (2)… — Brett Blumenthal Copy Share Image
A lobster, when left high and dry among the rock, does not have the sense enough to work his way back to… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“Initially, I feel expansive when I try something new, and then contract as soon as I encounter difficulty or the unknown. I… — Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy (SARK Copy Share Image