PROCRASTINATION QUOTES IV
quotations about procrastination
I'm a big believer in putting things off, In fact, I even put off procrastinating.
LISA KLEYPAS
Smooth Talking Stranger
There is no avoidance in delay.
AESCHYLUS
Agamemnon
We tend to think of procrastination as the cause of many bad things. You don't get your work done on time, you miss deadlines, you let your great ideas languish too long, and you get people exasperated waiting for you. But procrastination is not just a cause. It is also an effect. What is causing the self-imposed delay in execution? There are seven factors: perceived importance, existing options, past experience, required skills, available resources, expected outcomes and mood state. Each of these factors can hold you back from getting things done.
THEO TSAOUSIDES
"7 Questions That Cure Terminal Procrastination", Entrepreneur, June 2, 2016
Regardless of our level of procrastination, it's much easier to be ashamed about being late than it is to feel ashamed about finishing the task or making the decision, only to be told we've performed poorly. In this way, procrastination actually protects us from tapping into this pool of deeper feelings we'd just as soon avoid.
KAREN E. PETERSON
The Tomorrow Trap
We should never procrastinate, for there is no moment like the present, not only so, but moreover, there is no moment at all, that is, no instant force or energy, but in the present.
MARIA EDGEWORTH
attributed, Day's Collacon
Remember, if you wait 'til the last minute, it only takes a minute.
ANONYMOUS
Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement.
HENRY MILLER
"The Enormous Womb", The Wisdom of the Heart
The scholar's greatest weakness: calling procrastination research.
STEPHEN KING
11/22/63
A procrastinator is one who is born merely to consume the fruits of the earth; a miserable wretch; a useless being, acknowledging that he has been brought up in vain.
MENANDER
attributed, Day's Collacon