Procrastination Quotes

350 quotes by 239 authors

Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work. — Stephen King
The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day. — Abraham Lincoln
Doesn't reincarnation strike you as just another form of procrastination? — Chuck Palahniuk
If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write! — Jackie Collins
I'm a big believer in putting things off, In fact, I even put off procrastinating. -Ella Varner — Lisa Kleypas
The assumption of time is one of humanity's greatest follies. We tell ourselves that there's always tomorrow, when we can no more predict tomorrow than… — Richard Paul Evans
If you don't pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves. — David Allen
If you believe you can accomplish everything by "cramming" at the eleventh hour, by all means, don't lift a finger now. But you may think… — Max Brooks
Absolutely not. I'm an expert in procrastination, but the last thing I want you to think is that I'm incompetent, too. Because I'm actually pretty… — Nicholas Sparks
Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them. — David Allen
We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate. — Erica Jong
You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks. — Winston Churchill
How soon 'not now' becomes 'never'! — Martin Luther King, Jr.
That glorious vision of doing good is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds. — Charles Dickens
The scholar's greatest weakness: calling procrastination research. — Stephen King
If and perhaps.... The language of procrastination and uncertainty. That's just people looking to justify their own lack of action. — John Flanagan
Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced… — Miyamoto Musashi
Procrastination is a lazy man's apology. — Chinua Achebe
Few understand that procrastination is our natural defense, letting things take care of themselves and exercise their antifragility; it results from some ecological or naturalistic… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Procrastination is not Laziness", I tell him. "It is fear. Call it by its right name, and forgive yourself. — Julia Cameron

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