Procrastination Quotes - Page 14

• I write at a standing desk, which has helped me be much more productive and solved some back problems, but mostly all my quirky habits have to do with procrastination and avoidance rather than with work. I'm slowly trying to stamp those out.

  Paolo Bacigalupi

  Writing, Quirky, Trying

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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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 and impatience form a system of checks and balances.

  Mason Cooley

  Balance, Impatience, Checks

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• Working is one of the most dangerous forms of procrastination.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Form, Dangerous, Authentic Happiness

  Twitter post from Sep 19, 2016

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• Step by step, you make your way forward. That’s why practices such as daily writing exercises or keeping a daily blog can be so helpful. You see yourself do the work, which shows you that you can do the work. Progress is reassuring and inspiring; panic and then despair set in when you find yourself getting nothing done day after day. One of the painful ironies of work life is that the anxiety of procrastination often makes people even less likely to buckle down in the future.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Motivational, Writing, Exercise

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• Procrastination is illogical from every viewpoint. It is like the man who wanted to cross the stream, so he sat on the bank to wait for all the water to run by.

  Vernon Howard

  Running, Men, Water

  "There Is A Way Out!". Book by Vernon Howard, 1975.

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• Giving up on our long-term goals for immediate gratification, my friends, is procrastination.

  Dan Ariely

  Giving Up, Long, Goal

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• Reluctance to begin is quick to befriend procrastination. . . .

  Kate Morton

  Reluctance

  Kate Morton (2010). “The Kate Morton Collection: The House at Riverton and The Forgotten Garden”, p.101, Simon and Schuster

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• Go ahead and do things, the bigger the better, if your fundamentals are sound. Avoid procrastination. Do not quibble for an hour over things that might be decided in minutes. However, if the issue at stake is large, stay as long as the next man, but go ahead and do things.

  John J. Raskob

  Men, Issues, Long

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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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• 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

  Trying, Procrastinating, Walks

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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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• Later is always my first choice.

  Mason Cooley

  Choices, Firsts

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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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• Procrastination is one of the most expensive invisible costs in business today.

  Rory Vaden

  Cost, Today, Invisible

  Rory Vaden (2012). “Take the Stairs: 7 Steps to Achieving True Success”, p.37, Penguin

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• The first is based in fear, the second in fearlessness.

  Rhonda Britten

  Firsts, Fearlessness

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• Death will be so quick to swoop on you; Gather merit till that moment comes! Wait till then to banish laziness? Then there'll be no time, what will you do? "This I have not done. And this I'm only starting. And this - I'm only halfway through ..." Then is the sudden coming of the Lord of Death, And oh, the thought 'Alas, I'm finished.'

  Shantideva

  Waiting, Done, Laziness

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• There is, by God's grace, an immeasurable distance between late and too late.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Distance, Grace, Too Late

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• If only I could master that demon of procrastination that goes about like a roaring lion and devours all my good intentions, I should become the most punctual man in the world.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Men, Roaring, World

  Henrik Ibsen (1905). “The Correspondence of Henrik Ibsen”

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• If and perhaps.... The language of procrastination and uncertainty. That's just people looking to justify their own lack of action.

  John Flanagan

  Ifs And, People, Action

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• Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform and mortal men lay hold on heaven.

  Edward Young

  Men, Heaven, Reform

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• Procrastination is hardly more evil than grasping impatience.

  Immanuel Kant

  Evil, Impatience, Grasping

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• It sometimes seems that we live as if we wonder when life is going to begin. It isn't always clear just what we are waiting for, but some of us sometimes persist in waiting so long that life slips by - finding us still waiting for something that has been going on all the time. . . . This is the life in which the work of this life is to be done. Today is as much a part of eternity as any day a thousand years ago or as will be any day a thousand years hence. This is it, whether we are thrilled or disappointed, busy or bored! This is life, and it is passing.

  Richard L. Evans

  Years, Long, Bored

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