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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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• It is not really work if you are having fun.

  Pierre Omidyar

  Fun, Ifs, Productivity

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• The start is what stops most people.

  Don Shula

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• Today's greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Saving, Today, Tomorrow

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• The most life destroying word of all is the word tomorrow.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Rich Life, Inspire

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• Clear, written goals have a wonderful effect on your thinking. They motivate you and galvanize you into action. They stimulate your creativity, release your energy, and help you to overcome procrastination as much as any other factor.

  Brian Tracy

  Leadership, Motivation, Creativity

  Brian Tracy (2008). “Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time”, p.5, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• A procrastinator is a thief of his or her own time.

  Jhoon Goo Rhee

  Motivational, Time, Art

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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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• When the time is right, you just got to do it.

  J. R. Simplot

  Time, Time Management

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• Perfectionism is the mother of procrastination.

  Michael Hyatt

  Mother, Perfectionism

  FaceBook post by Michael Hyatt from May 21, 2012

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• The old saying that "success breeds success" has something to it. It's that feeling of confidence that can banish negativity and procrastination and get you going the right way.

  Donald Trump

  Success, Confidence, Focus

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• Procrastination is also a subtle act of corruption – it corrupts valuable time

  Amit Abraham

  Corruption, Subtle, Valuable

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• Perfectionism is not as much the desire for excellence, as it is the fear of failure couched in procrastination .

  Dan Miller

  Excellence, Desire, Fear Of Failure

  Dan Miller (2015). “48 Days to the Work You Love: Preparing for the New Normal”, p.86, B&H Publishing Group

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• The era of procrastination...is coming to a close...we are entering a period of consequences - Winston Churchill (warning about the danger of appeasement

  Al Gore

  Entering, Warning, Eras

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• One element of maturity is the realization that we don't get away with anything. Any advantage gained or convenience taken, any private procrastination or insincerity, no matter how subtle or quick in passing, is paid for.

  Hugh Prather

  Taken, Maturity, Elements

  Hugh Prather (2001). “Love and Courage”, p.81, Conari Press

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• Do not act as if you had a thousand years to live.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Years, Thousand, Ifs

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• Don't let your want for perfection become procrastination

  Danielle LaPorte

  Perfection, Want

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• A lobster, when left high and dry among the rock, does not have the sense enough to work his way back to the sea, but waits for the sea to come to him. If it does not come, he remains where he is and dies, although the slightest effort would enable him to reach the waves, which are perhaps within a yard of him. The world is full of human lobsters; people stranded on the rocks of indecision and procrastination, who, instead of putting forth their own energies, are waiting for some grand billow of good fortune to set them afloat.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Rocks, Sea, People

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• Procrastination is probably my worst habit out of many. Especially when it comes to paperwork.

  Tom Conti

  Habit, Worst, Paperwork

  "This much I know: Tom Conti". Interview with Shahesta Shaitly, www.theguardian.com. March 26, 2011.

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• the obligation to express gratitude deepens with procrastination. The longer you wait, the more effusive must be the thanks.

  Judith Martin

  Gratitude, Waiting, Thanks

  Judith Martin (1996). “Miss Manners Rescues Civilization: From Sexual Harassment, Frivolous Lawsuits, Dissing, and Other Lapses in Civility”, Crown

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• I ... practiced all the arts of apology, evasion, and invisibility, to which procrastinators must sooner or later be reduced.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Art, Apology, Invisibility

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1825). “Works”, p.388

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• Procrastination is hardly more evil than grasping impatience.

  Immanuel Kant

  Evil, Impatience, Grasping

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• Any time we have projects that we haven't begun or completed, they drain energy.

  Arianna Huffington

  Energy, Projects, Drains

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• I once heard a sober alcoholic say that drinking never made him happy, but it made him feel like he was going to be happy in about fifteen minutes. That was exactly it, and I couldn't understand why the happiness never came, couldn't see the flaw in my thinking, couldn't see that alcohol kept me trapped in a world of illusion, procrastination, paralysis. I lived always in the future, never in the present. Next time, next time! Next time I drank it would be different, next time it would make me feel good again.

  Heather King

  Drinking, Thinking, Addiction

  Heather King (2006). “Parched”, p.100, Penguin

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• I think the worst and most insidious procrastination for me is research. I will be looking for some bit of fact or figure to include in the novel, and before I know, I've wasted an entire morning delving into that subject matter without a word written.

  James Rollins

  Morning, Thinking, Research

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