Procrastinating Quotes - Page 5

• It's very important to enjoy what you're doing or else you are always going to procrastinate.

  James Altucher

  Important, Enjoy

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• The secret of forgiveness is not to procrastinate, but to free yourself immediately of stress by totally forgiving this instant.

  Gerald Jampolsky

  Stress, Secret, Forgiving

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• I try to write a lot and my process is kind of back and forth. I procrastinate a lot so when I do sit down to write, I'm pretty lazy at it. And it's such a frustrating thing sometimes - writing - when you don't do it all the time, you get that thing in your head that you have nothing to talk about and you can't write songs.

  Courtney Barnett

  Song, Writing, Lazy

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• Procrastinating, fighting and avoiding will only make it more difficult. The way out is to get it done.

  Ralph Marston

  Fighting, Done, Way

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• The whole thing of working in all these different mediums, it's just so that I can always be playing hooky from one of them. I can always be rebelling against my boss. Like, I'm supposed to be writing this book, but - heh heh heh - I'm writing a movie, secretly. I'm procrastinating, and in my off-hours I'm working on this movie that I'm not allowed to do, because I'm supposed to be writing a book!

  Miranda July

  Book, Writing, Boss

  Interview with Ross Simonini, www.believermag.com. 2015.

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• I'm learning real skills that I can apply throughout the rest of my life...procrastinating and rationalizing.

  Bill Watterson

  Real, Skills, Calvin And Hobbes Friendship

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• My writing process, such as it is, consists of a lot of noodling, procrastinating, dawdling, and avoiding.

  Amy Bloom

  Writing, Process, Avoiding

  Amy Bloom (2010). “Where the God of Love Hangs Out: Fiction”, p.225, Random House

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• When you focus on just one thing at a time, without rushing or procrastinating, you cultivate a sense of timeless awareness that creates feelings of calm and well-being.

  Deepak Chopra

  Rushing, Focus, Feelings

  "Make Time Your Ally by Deepak Chopra". www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Lack of self-confidence is, more often than not, simple laziness. We feel confused and uncertain because we do not know. But instead of making the effort to investigate, we procrastinate and worry. We tell ourselves we can't instead of learning how we can. If we used the mental energy we expend in worry and fear to get out and find out about what we do not know, we would see our self-confidence grow. Lack of self-confidence is not overcome by faith, but by action. It is a lack, not of certainty, but of effort. Too often we are certain that we can't before we give ourselves a fair chance.

  Laurence Boldt

  Confused, Self Confidence, Simple

  Laurence G. Boldt (1999). “Zen and the Art of Making a Living: A Practical Guide to Creative Career Design”, p.941, Penguin

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• Why Do We Procrastinate? P - postponing life R - resisting change O - overly cautious C - contemplating course of action R - reasoning and justifying A - afraid of success S - summoning up some courage T - trouble moving forward I - inability to see the outcome N - not able to trust in your abilities to make decisions A - attempting to control the situation T - time to reflect on your motives E - erodes progress

  Samuel Richardson

  Moving, Decision, Progress

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• What we must learn to do is to create unbreakable bonds between the sciences and the humanities. We cannot procrastinate. The world of the future is in our making. Tomorrow is now.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Humanity, World, Unbreakable Bonds

  "Tomorrow Is Now" by Eleanor Roosevelt, (p. 134), 1963.

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• I try to procrastinate, if I can, productively, like I'll work on something else as procrastination. Or I take a walk. Because often I find, if you get out, more things come to you.

  Noah Baumbach

  Procrastination, Trying, Walks

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• Nothing says work efficiency like panic mode.

  Don Roff

  Procrastination, Panic, Efficiency

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• I observed that the successful farmer worked at his job. He would do his plowing, disking, harrowing, seeding, and harvesting in the proper season and at the proper time, while his neighbor was procrastinating, or off hunting and fishing while the work was still to be done. We must learn to set our priorities straight. No one can be successful in his line of work unless he works at it in the proper season and plays in the proper season.

  Nathan Eldon Tanner

  Jobs, Successful, Hunting

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• Straightway is a power word. Straightway is an action word. It means immediately, without delay or hesitation. It means at once. Also, it is associated with having no curve or turn-a straight course, track, or path. Procrastination would be the very opposite of straightway. To procrastinate is to put off intentionally and habitually something that should be done. Procrastination is unproductive delay.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Procrastination, Mean, Curves

  Marvin J. Ashton (1987). “Be of Good Cheer”, Deseret Book Co

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• The man who procrastinates struggles with ruin.

  Hesiod

  Struggle, Procrastination, Men

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• The Great Arizona Desert is full of the bleaching bones of people who waited for me to start something.

  Robert Benchley

  People, Desert, Arizona

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• Because if you're trying to write and you have unlimited time, you can procrastinate an unlimited account, but if you have limited time, you rush to the page trying to get something down in the little bit of fragment of time that you have, and you may write a great deal that way.

  Julia Cameron

  Writing, Trying, Limited Time

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• Pause and remember - Stop procrastinating! Wishing is wonderful but action is what it takes to make it happen.

  Jennifer Young

  Wish, Action, Remember

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• Occasionally when I'm procrastinating writing, I'll while away the hours on iTunes. You can just keep going forever and find these bands you'd never normally hear of.

  Marisha Pessl

  Writing, Forever, Band

  "Random Rules: Marisha Pessl" by Andy Battaglia, www.avclub.com. November 14, 2006.

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• I'm an avid reader, and though it doesn't always work out in terms of relaxation, I've got to keep myself up to date with current affairs. I was a journalism student in college, and I don't feel like I can relax unless I feel informed. When people say they can't watch the news because it's too stressful, I just think, ignorance isn't bliss. It's just another way to procrastinate.

  Sophia Bush

  Ignorance, College, Thinking

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• I think every writer doubts themselves, every day. You procrastinate because you're afraid. You're always afraid it's not going to be as good as you want it to be.

  Geoff Johns

  Thinking, Doubt, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• It is my greatest misfortune to be too lazy, and by the few mortifications I have already set with on that account I predict many evils in my future life. I have always the inclination to do what I ought; but by continually procrastinating for tomorrow the business of today, I insensibly delay, until at the end of one month I find myself in the same place as when I began it.

  Washington Allston

  Evil, Lazy, Delay

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• My biggest mistake: not wanting to help myself into thinking I am happy, that change would come about without really trying to change, or wanting to change. Procrastinating about changing. I do want to change.

  Beatrice Sparks

  Mistake, Thinking, Trying

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• Resistance really takes the shape, for me, in voices in my head telling me why I can't do something or why I should put it off for another day, procrastinate for another day.

  Steven Pressfield

  Voice, Shapes, Resistance

  "Special Interview with Steven Pressfield and Ishita Gupta". "Marketing Over Coffee" podcast with John Wall, www.marketingovercoffee.com. May 16, 2011.

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