Procrastination Quotes - Page 13

• 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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• 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

  Mean, Curves, Opposites

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

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• Punctuality is closely related to faithfulness and dependability. Being tardy can be linked to uninterest, apathy, slothfulness and procrastination.

  Sterling W Sill

  Apathy, Faithfulness, Punctuality

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• Festination may prove Precipitation;
  Deliberating delay may be wise cunctation.

  Thomas Browne

  Wise, Haste, Delay

  Sir Thomas Browne (1845). “Religio Medici: Together with a Letter to a Friend on the Death of His Intimate Friend and Christian Morals”, p.278

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• Resisting a task is usually a sign that it's meaningful-which is why it's awakening your fears and stimulating procrastination. You could adopt "Do whatever you're resisting the most" as a philosophy of life.

  Oliver Burkeman

  Meaningful, Philosophy, Tasks

  Oliver Burkeman (2011). “HELP!: How to Become Slightly Happier and Get a Bit More Done”, p.116, Canongate Books

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• of all the follies that we can commit, the greatest is to hesitate.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Folly, Commit

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• One of the great challenges of our age, in which the tools of our productivity are also the tools of our leisure, is to figure out how to make more useful those moments of procrastination when we're idling in front of our computer screens.

  Joshua Foer

  Productive Work, Challenges, Age

  "How I learned a language in 22 hours" by Joshua Foer, www.theguardian.com. November 09, 2012.

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• Imagination only comes when you privilege the subconscious, when you make delay and procrastination work for you.

  Hilary Mantel

  Imagination, Delay, Privilege

  "Hilary Mantel: 'If I'm suffering, I can make that pay'" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. October 17, 2012.

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• Doesn't reincarnation strike you as just another form of procrastination?

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Reincarnation, Form, Strikes

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

  Lisa Kleypas

  Putting Things Off, Facts, Bigs

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• Postpone not your life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• Procrastination is the beginning of poor performance.

  Ron Kaufman

  Service Culture, Poor, Performances

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• My procrastination which has held me back was born of fear ... now I know that to conquer fear I must always act without hesitation and the flutters in my heart will vanish. Now I know that action reduces the lion of terror.... I will walk where the failure fears to walk.

  Og Mandino

  Heart, Greatness, Lions

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• What is the definition of procrastination? It means: I can feel within my Energy sensor that this action is not in perfect alignment at this time.

  Esther Hicks

  Mean, Perfect, Energy

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• Killing for pleasure is wrong and should be banned. Fox hunting, stag hunting and hare coursing are moral issues. It is time that we stood up for morality. The commandment Thou shall not kill may be hedged with exceptions.Thou shall not kill for pleasure is not; it is a commandment for the 21st century and it is time that we respected it unambiguously, without prevarication and without procrastination.

  Lyndon Harrison, Baron Harrison

  Hunting, Issues, May

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• Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until he knew enough to write them well. Well, he would not have to fail at trying to write them either. Maybe you could never write them, and that was why you put them off and delayed the starting. Well he would never know, now.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Trying, Failing

  Ernest Hemingway (2002). “The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

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

  Donovan King

  Ambition, Mean, Excuse

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• Procrastination is your body telling you you need to back off a bit and think more about what you are doing.

  James Altucher

  Thinking, Needs, Body

  "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Mediocre People" by James Altucher, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 4, 2012.

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• Winding up unfinished business with another person can give you a great burst of positive energy.

  Brian Tracy

  Motivation, Unfinished Business, Giving

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Aug 01, 2011

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• How comfortable some of us become as we nestle in the web of procrastination. It is a false haven of rest for those who are content to live without purpose, commitment, or self-discipline.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Commitment, Self, Discipline

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• Peace is more than a lofty ideal. It is a practical principle that, with conscious effort, can become a normal part of our lives as we deal with matters both large and small. One habit that prevents inner peace is procrastination. It clutters our minds with unfinished business and makes us uneasy until we finish a task and get it out of the way.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Unfinished Business, Effort, Inner Peace

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• Unfinished business is our worst business. Perpetual procrastination must yield to perceptive preparation. Today we have a little more time to bless others-time to be kinder, more compassionate, quicker to thank and slower to scold, more generous in sharing, more gracious in caring.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Caring, Unfinished Business, Yield

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• Later is always my first choice.

  Mason Cooley

  Choices, Firsts

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• Procrastination and impatience form a system of checks and balances.

  Mason Cooley

  Balance, Impatience, Checks

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