Procrastination Quotes - Page 16

• I have an advanced degree in procrastination and another one in paranoia.

  Joanne Harris

  Degrees, Paranoia

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• Turning pro is a mindset. If we are struggling with fear, self-sabotage, procrastination, self-doubt, etc., the problem is, we’re thinking like amateurs. Amateurs don’t show up. Amateurs crap out. Amateurs let adversity defeat them. The pro thinks differently. He shows up, he does his work, he keeps on truckin’, no matter what.

  Steven Pressfield

  Struggle, Adversity, Thinking

  "From Cabbie to Best-Selling Author: Steve Pressfield on ‘Turning Pro’" by Greg Clarkin, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 16, 2012.

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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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  Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.

  Haile Selassie

  Should Have, Voice, Evil

  1963 Address to a special session of the UN General Assembly, 4 Oct, making him the first head of state to address both that organization and the League of Nations.

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• As a writer, I need an enormous amount of time alone. Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box, watching infomercials. It's a matter of doing everything you can to avoid writing, until it is about four in the morning and you reach the point where you have to write. Having anybody watching that or attempting to share it with me would be grisly.

  Paul Rudnick

  Morning, Reading, Writing

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• There is a danger in the word someday when what it means is “not this day.”...The scriptures make the danger of delay clear. It is that we may discover that we have run out of time. The God who gives us each day as a treasure will require an accounting. We will weep, and He will weep, if we have intended to repent and to serve Him in tomorrows which never came or have dreamt of yesterdays where the opportunity to act was past. This day is a precious gift of God. The thought “Someday I will” can be a thief of the opportunities of time and the blessings of eternity.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Inspirational, Bible, God

  FaceBook post by Henry B Eyring from Jan 08, 2015

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• Procrastination is attitude's natural assassin. There's nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task

  William James

  Attitude, Tasks, Assassins

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• Procrastination is a lazy man's apology.

  Chinua Achebe

  Apology, Men, Lazy Man

  Chinua Achebe (2012). “Girls at War”, p.42, Anchor

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• Few understand that procrastination is our natural defense, letting things take care of themselves and exercise their antifragility; it results from some ecological or naturalistic wisdom, and is not always bad - at an existential level, it is my body rebelling against its entrapment. It is my soul fighting the Procrustean bed of modernity.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Fighting, Exercise, Soul

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2012). “Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder”, p.122, Random House

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• Nothing says work efficiency like panic mode.

  Don Roff

  Panic, Efficiency, Procrastinating

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• My mother always told me I wouldn't amount to anything because I procrastinate. I said, "Just wait."

  Judy Tenuta

  Success, Mom, Daughter

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• Be wise today; 'tis madness to defer. Next day the fatal precedent will plead; thus on, til wisdom is pushed our of life.

  Edward Young

  Wise, Next Day, Today

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• Live life like you mean it! Stop procrastinating! Do all that you can...with all that you have...in the place that you are...right now! Life is too unpredictable to put things off and not take it seriously.

  Les Brown

  Live Life, Mean, Life Is

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• Life is a race. If you delay starting, how can you have any hope of winning?

  Randall Wright

  Winning, Race, Delay

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• I have a terrible problem with procrastination. A friend told me, "Well, you should go to therapy." And I thought about it, but then I said, "Wait a minute. Why should I pay a stranger to listen to me talk when I can get strangers to pay to listen to me talk?" And that's when I got the idea of touring.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Ideas, Waiting, Pay

  "Ellen DeGeneres: Here and Now". Comedy, Documentary, June 25, 2003.

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• Few understand that procrastination is our natural defense, letting things take care of themselves and exercise their antifragility.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Exercise, Defense, Care

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2012). “Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder”, p.122, Random House

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• Did I become court composer through masterful procrastination? Hardly!

  Rachel Hartman

  Court, Composer

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• Momentum is a fragile force. Its worst enemy: procrastination. Its best friend: a deadline (think Election Day). Implication no. 1 (and there is no no. 2): Get to work! NOW!

  Tom Peters

  Thinking, Worst Enemy, Tasks

  Tom Peters (1999). “The Project50 (Reinventing Work): Fifty Ways to Transform Every "Task" into a Project That Matters!”, p.89, Knopf

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• All we have is here and now. That's why procrastination feels so right. Procrastination isn't the problem, it's the solution.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Funny, Humor, Problem

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• I manage my time by prioritizing tasks, working smarter not harder, and by avoiding procrastination.

  Jeet Banerjee

  Tasks, Prioritize, Avoiding

  Source: theimarketingcafe.com

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• There are lots of people who believe there may be at least some genetic component to procrastination, and even if there isn't, it seems to be the case that procrastination habits are often set relatively early in life (that's certainly the case with me). But I also think that there's lots of evidence that external tools can help quite a bit in getting people to stop procrastinating.

  James Surowiecki

  Believe, Thinking, People

  Source: www.newyorker.com

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• Addictive behavior is kind of the inverse of procrastination: procrastination is about not being able to do what you want to do, addiction about not being able to not do what you don't want to do (drink, use drugs, etc.)

  James Surowiecki

  Addiction, Drug, Use

  "Ask the Author Live: James Surowiecki on Procrastination". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. October 1, 2010.

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• One of the problems that exacerbates procrastination is the feeling that you have lots of different things to do and no clear sense of which matter more, when they should be done, etc.

  James Surowiecki

  Feelings, Different, Done

  "Ask the Author Live: James Surowiecki on Procrastination". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. October 1, 2010.

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• Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement.

  Henry Miller

  Life, Long, Action

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.96, New Directions Publishing

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• Waiting is a trap. There will always be reasons to wait. The truth is, there are only two things in life, reasons and results, and reasons simply don't count.

  Robert Anthony

  Life, Motivational, Two

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