Procrastination Quotes
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"Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time."
"When faced with two equally tough choices, most people choose the third choice: to not choose."
"75% of my life is spent wasting time. The other 25% isn’t nearly as productive."
"Wisdom is knowing when you are being patient, and when you are wasting time by waiting."
"The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing."
"Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today."
"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."
"Life always begins with one step outside of your comfort zone."
"Success is not obtained overnight. It comes in installments; you get a little bit today, a little bit tomorrow until the whole package is given out. The day you procrastinate, you lose that day's success."
"Lack of confidence, sometimes alternating with unrealistic dreams of heroic success, often leads to procrastination, and many studies suggest that procrastinators are self-handicappers: rather than risk failure, they prefer to create conditions that make success impossible, a reflex that of course creates a vicious cycle."
"Perfection' is man's ultimate illusion. It simply doesn't exist in the universe.... If you are a perfectionist, you are guaranteed to be a loser in whatever you do."
"From now on I hope always to stay alert, to educate myself as best I can. But lacking this, in Future I will relaxedly turn back to my secret mind to see what it has observed when I thought I was sitting this one out. We never sit anything out.We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out."
"Procrastination is opportunity's natural assassin."
"Create a guidebook of creative dreamsYou can use a blank book or just blank paper clipped together. Put photographs or scraps from magazines in that represent your creative dreams. Draw, scribble, or paint in between the images. Make a list of creative dreams you've thought of or admire in others."
"I put the “now” in knowledge. Well, I will put it there, probably tomorrow or tomorrow’s tomorrow."
"Nothing is born into this world without labor."
"With age, gone are the forevers of youth. Gone is the willingness to procrastinate, delay, to play the waiting game. Now each day is a treasure beyond compare . . . because there are so few such diadems left."
"Your Life Is Happening Right Now: Don't let procrastination take over your life. Be brave and take risks. Your life is happening right now."
"The comfort zone is a psychological state in which one feels familiar, safe, at ease, and secure.If you always do what is easy and choose the path of least resistance, you never step outside your comfort zone. Great things don’t come from comfort zones."
"If you always do what is easy and choose the path of least resistance, you never step outside your comfort zone. Great things don’t come from comfort zones."
"Don't let procrastination take over your life. Be brave and take risks. Your life is happening right now."
"The penalty for procrastination is the loss of hopes and dreams."
"I see that I've become a really bad correspondent. It's not that I don't think of you. You come into my thoughts often. But when you do it appears to me that I owe you a particularly grand letter. And so you end in the "warehouse of good intentions": "Can't do it now." "Then put it on hold." This is one's strategy for coping with old age, and with death--because one can't die with so many obligations in storage. Our clever species, so fertile and resourceful in denying its weaknesses."
"He saw it for the first time: on the day he died he would be wearing unmatching socks, there would be unanswered e-mails, and in the hovel he called home there would still be shirts missing cuff buttons, a malfunctioning light in the hall, and unpaid bills, uncleared attics, dead flies, friends waiting for a reply and lovers he had not owned up to."
"You may not be punished for your procrastination, but for sure you will be punished by your procrastination."
"The breeding ground of fear is procrastination and inaction. We overcome them not by preparation, but by taking action."
"Building your "dream life" is filled with things that can feel like the opposite of a dream:MistakesDelaysStarting overFailureThe building part is actually more of a rebuilding that is a continual process. The building is not linear in nature but far more interesting. You might start a creative dream, take the "next step", and find yourself completely bored, dissatisfied, or just not inspired."
"Initially, I feel expansive when I try something new, and then contract as soon as I encounter difficulty or the unknown. I am learning to experiment with my tolerance of difficulty and the not knowing, in order to go further with my creative dreams.Whenever I experience contraction, I explore it by asking, "Where did I stop and why?" Building a creative dream life is not just about achieving, succeeding, or "meeting goals." It is also about floundering, stumbling, tripping and failing."
"Identifying Your DreamSome people can easily identify one primary dream. For others, a dream is more elusive. These people often have many dreams at once, or a general idea of a dream that never takes a specific shape."
"Our creative dreams are subject to grudge-holding when we decide that other people somehow have made their dreams real and we have not."
"Have more than one idea on the go at any one time. If it's a choice between writing a book and doing nothing I will always choose the latter. It's only if I have an idea for two books that I choose one rather than the other. I always have to feel that I'm bunking off from something."
"If you get stuck, get away from your desk. Take a walk, take a bath, go to sleep, make a pie, draw, listen to music, meditate, exercise; whatever you do, don't just stick there scowling at the problem. But don't make telephone calls or go to a party; if you do, other people's words will pour in where your lost words should be. Open a gap for them, create a space. Be patient.", 25 February 2010]"
"The distance between your Dreams and Reality is inversely proportional to your Efforts."
"Procrastination should not be linked with failure, just as early action should not be tied to success."
"Dream big as you can and shoot for the stars, but get started even if its small baby steps, they count!"
"If you want to get ahead in life, I've found that perhaps the most useless word in the world is "tomorrow."
"Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow."
"Sometimes", said Miss Phillips, "the thing you dread doing the very thing you should do, just so you can stop thinking about it."
Marci Shimoff, Chicken Soup for the Single's Soul (Chicken Soup for the Soul
"Procrastination is also a subtle act of corruption – it corrupts valuable time"
"Procrastination and excuses really have the energy to make your picture small and blurred if you offer them that image!"
"Keep your promises and never be late in acting. Act right and do the right things at the right time."
Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts
"Stop killing and wasting time. Get something done today"
"One can hardly do anything productive when one knows there is cake in the fridge."
"Someone may have all the technical knowledge, scientific intellect and business know-how but when he/she decides to choose laziness, excuses, procrastination, complaining and other bad attitudes, his/her relevance is meaningless."
"We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate."
"Truth is the greatest marketing campaign."
"The forms are many in which the unchanging seeks relief from its formlessness."
"Don’t procrastinate, start building yourself now!"
"Everyone has the same amount of hours per day, it’s not that you don’t have enough time, it’s that you don’t have a clear focus"
"You ain't get nothing for staying low, lazy. The world only tremble at the feet of the few craziest doers ever lived."
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