Procrastinating Quotes - Page 3

• Having lost people when they were young, you feel intimately acquainted with mortality, I guess. Though I procrastinate worse than anybody.

  Dave Eggers

  People, Mortality, Lost

  "Dave Eggers: From 'staggering genius' to America's conscience". Interview with Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. March 6, 2010.

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• I mean, I can get things done if I need to, but I can really be completely irresponsible and procrastinate until the very, very, very bitter end. In fact, sometimes I work better under pressure.

  Cameron Diaz

  Mean, Facts, Needs

  Interview With Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. October 6, 2005.

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• To those of you who pay your tithing, I commend you. To those of you who presently are not obeying the law of tithing, I invite you to consider your ways and repent. I testify that by your obedience to this law of the Lord, the windows of heaven will be opened to you. Please do not procrastinate the day of your repentance.

  David A. Bednar

  Law, Heaven, Pay

  "The Windows of Heaven". David A. Bednar's address at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. October 2013.

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• ...We need to strive to keep things in proper balance. Good balance comes in doing things in a timely way and in not procrastinating our preparation or waiting to fulfill our responsibilities until the last minute.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Responsibility, Waiting, Preparation

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• For me, writing is 75 percent procrastinating and 25 percent actually sitting down and working.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Writing, Sitting Down, Down And

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• Inertia is so easy—don't fix what's not broken. Leave well enough alone. So we end up accepting what is broken, mistaking complaining for action, procrastinating for deliberation.

  Justina Chen

  Broken, Accepting What Is, Complaining

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• It is an undoubted truth, that the less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in. One yawns, one procrastinates, one can do it when one will, and therefore one seldom does it at all.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Doe, Can Do

  "Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman". Book by Lord Chesterfield, 1774.

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• I focus best and am most productive when I’m working in a friend’s empty apartment. It’s hard for me to work at home. Too easy to procrastinate online, too easy to be distracted by the state of perpetual domestic chaos that rules my home.

  Elissa Schappell

  Home, Focus, Chaos

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• The greatest power God gave us is the power to choose. We have the opportunity to choose whether we're going to act or procrastinate, believe or doubt, pray or curse, help or heal. We also choose whether we're going to be happy or whether we're going to be sad.

  Lou Holtz

  Believe, Opportunity, Choices

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• With the notebook resting ominuslously on Janie's bed, Janie procrastinates. Does her homework first. And pours herself a bowl of ceral. Breakfast - one of the five most important meals of the day. Not to be skipped.

  Lisa McMann

  Notebook, Important, Bed

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• Many aspects of the writing life have changed since I published my first book, in the 1960s. It is more corporate, more driven by profits and marketing, and generally less congenial - but my day is the same: get out of bed, procrastinate, sit down at my desk, try to write something.

  Paul Theroux

  Book, Writing, Marketing

  "Fiction in the Age of E-Books". "The Atlantic" Interview, www.theatlantic.com. 2010.

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• Academics, who work for long periods in a self-directed fashion, may be especially prone to putting things off: surveys suggest that the vast majority of college students procrastinate, and articles in the literature of procrastination often allude to the author's own problems with finishing the piece.

  James Surowiecki

  Fashion, Procrastination, College

  "Later". www.newyorker.com. October 11, 2010.

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• Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure. Lost opportunities cause erosion of confidence, and the downward spiral begins.

  Charles Stanley

  New Year, Fear, Opportunity

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• I have no point in procrastinating any longer.

  Flora Rheta Schreiber

  No Point

  Flora Rheta Schreiber (1975). “Sybil”

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• ♥"I'm a procrastinating underachiever at heart."♥

  Pete Wentz

  Heart

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• Procrastinating is number three on my Stupid List. You still end up exactly where you didn't want to be, doing exactly what you didn't want to do, withe the only difference being that you lost all that time in between, during which you could have been doing something fun. Even worse, you probably stayed in a stressed-out, crappy mood the whole time you were avoiding it. If you know something is inevitable, do it and get it over with. Move on. Life is short.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Fun, Stupid, Moving

  FaceBook post by Karen Marie Moning from Oct 15, 2013

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• I'm a big believer in putting things off, In fact, I even put off procrastinating. -Ella Varner

  Lisa Kleypas

  Procrastination, Putting Things Off, Facts

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• Being pregnant taught me how to be a better writer. It was a lesson in negative capability and surrendering to necessity. Suddenly, my body instinctually yielded to the needs of this growing being, and I had no choice but to embrace what was happening and all that lay ahead, even if I was afraid and uncertain. So, while being a parent has made writing more challenging, it has also made being a writer more certain. There's no room to procrastinate; there is to time for fear.

  Robin Beth Schaer

  Writing, Parent, Choices

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Tomorrow, the busiest day of the week. I'm a big believer in putting things off, In fact, I even put off procrastinating.

  Elle Varner

  Procrastination, Putting Things Off, Facts

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• Why procrastinate when you can precognitate?

  Tom Robbins

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• Become a worry-slapper. Treat frets like mosquitoes. Do you procrastinate when a bloodsucking bug lights on your skin? 'I'll take care of it in a moment.' Of course you don't! You give the critter the slap it deserves. Be equally decisive with anxiety.

  Max Lucado

  Light, Giving, Worry

  Max Lucado (2012). “Fearless: Imagine Your Life Without Fear”, p.49, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Potential is an excuse to procrastinate; Ambition is a means to thrive.

  Donovan King

  Procrastination, Ambition, Mean

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• Apparently, despite my awareness of its pejorative connotation, procrastinating is something I fall victim to quite frequently. I'm not proud of it; I'm just being honest.

  Rachel Nichols

  Fall, Proud, Just Being

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• When we get the inspiration from Heave to do something. We do it now. We don't procrastinate.

  William R. Walker

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Inspiration

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• 1. Stress improvement, not perfection (or winning). 2. Don't take yourself too seriously; laugh at yourself and have fun. 3. Set attainable goals; reach them and then set higher ones. 4. Be positive, walk tall, smile often, don't complain or procrastinate. 5. Prepare purposely, but don't overtrain. 6. Remember- Sports is a game and meant to be enjoyable.

  Dick Gould

  Sports, Running, Fun

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