Procrastination Quotes - Page 12

• Procrastination is a deadly weapon of human progress.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Progress, Weapons, Humans

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• One thing that's good about procrastination is that you always have something planned for tomorrow.

  Gladys Bronwyn Stern

  Tomorrow, One Thing

  "Women Know Everything!: 3,241 Quips, Quotes, and Brilliant Remarks". Book by Karen Weekes, p. 480, March 29, 2007.

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• Procrastination-thou wretched thief of time and opportunity!

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Opportunity, Thieves, Wretched

  Spencer W. Kimball (1982). “The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”

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• One of greatest thieves this world has is procrastination, and he is still at large. Are we aiding and abetting the criminal?

  Sterling W Sill

  Criminals, Thieves, World

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• Most procrastination is largely indecision. Someone has said that "hell is just truth seen too late."

  Sterling W Sill

  Too Late, Hell, Indecision

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• We went to lunch and were talking about procrastination and the waitress overheard us and she said, 'I have a problem with procrastination, too.' I said 'Really?... Get my sandwich.'

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Talking, Lunch, Sandwiches

  "Ellen DeGeneres: Here and Now". www.imdb.com. 2003.

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• Somebody was using the pencil.

  Dorothy Parker

  Pencils

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• Drug use and procrastination often go hand in tourniquet.

  Will Self

  Drug Use, Hands, Drug

  Will Self (2012). “Junk Mail: Reissued”, p.5, A&C Black

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• 'Never put off tomorrow what you can do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent morality, I am forever letting tomorrow's work slop into today's and doing painfully and nervously today what I could do quickly and easily tomorrow.

  J. A. Spender

  Forever, Today, Morality

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• Where duty is plain delay is both foolish and hazardous; where it is not, delay may be both wisdom and safety.

  Tryon Edwards

  Wisdom, Safety, Delay

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.298, Ravenio Books

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• Do not delay,
  Do not delay: the golden moments fly!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Golden Moments, Delay, Golden

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.817, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Procrastination in the beginning and precipitation towards the conclusion is the characteristic of such bodies.

  James Madison

  Body, Characteristics, Conclusion

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• There is sometimes only a very fine line between deliberation and procrastination.

  Paul Allen Walker

  Lines, Sometimes, Deliberation

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• Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.

  Epictetus

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• Climate change has a very high procrastination penalty that just grows with each passing year of inaction - rather like what happens if you don't pay off your credit card. But for climate, there is no such thing as a fresh start from bankruptcy.

  William H. Calvin

  Years, Climate, Cards

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• Procrastination is the soul rebelling against entrapment.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Soul, Entrapment

  FaceBook post by Nassim Nicholas Taleb from Sep 27, 2010

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• However much faith to obey God we now have, we will need to strengthen it continually and keep it refreshed constantly. We can do that by deciding now to be more quick to obey and more determined to endure. Learning to start early and to be steady are the keys to spiritual preparation. Procrastination and inconsistency are its mortal enemies.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Spiritual, Keys, Enemy

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• Procrastination is what we often call 'resistance.

  William Peter Blatty

  Resistance

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• Inaction that results from indulgence is Procrastination. Inaction that results from intention is Patience.

  Rory Vaden

  Intention, Results, Indulgence

  Rory Vaden (2015). “Procrastinate on Purpose: 5 Permissions to Multiply Your Time”, p.113, Penguin

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• Procrastination can be driven from your personality through the simple technique of constantly commanding yourself to get into action . . . and then obeying that command immediately.

  Og Mandino

  Motivational, Simple, Personality

  Og Mandino (1991). “Og Mandino”, Outlet

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• The momentum of continuous action fuels motivation, while procrastination kills motivation.

  Steve Pavlina

  Motivation, Momentum, Fuel

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• I have a funny process : it’s called procrastination.

  K. K. Barrett

  Process

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• This is a pie chart about procrastination.

  Demetri Martin

  Funny, Humor, Pie

  "Demetri Martin. Person". Documentary, Comedy, Music, www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• I don't think of it as procrastination. I think of it as allowing my work to accumulate urgency.

  Maud Newton

  Thinking, Allowing, Urgency

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• Nothing is more burdensome than an unfinished task.

  Jim Rohn

  Tasks, Unfinished

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