Procrastinating Quotes - Page 3

• I focus best and am most productive when I’m working in a friend’s empty apartment. It’s hard for me to work at home. Too easy to procrastinate online, too easy to be distracted by the state of perpetual domestic chaos that rules my home.

  Elissa Schappell

  Home, Focus, Chaos

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• I found the sections on aging, relationships, and procrastinating especially helpful. I really found the tips and suggestions very helpful, inspiring, positive, and motivating. Yes, I would definitely recommend it.

  Karen Lewis

  Self Esteem, Suggestions, Helpful

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• Academics, who work for long periods in a self-directed fashion, may be especially prone to putting things off: surveys suggest that the vast majority of college students procrastinate, and articles in the literature of procrastination often allude to the author's own problems with finishing the piece.

  James Surowiecki

  Fashion, Procrastination, College

  "Later". www.newyorker.com. October 11, 2010.

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• Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure. Lost opportunities cause erosion of confidence, and the downward spiral begins.

  Charles Stanley

  New Year, Fear, Opportunity

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• The greatest power God gave us is the power to choose. We have the opportunity to choose whether we're going to act or procrastinate, believe or doubt, pray or curse, help or heal. We also choose whether we're going to be happy or whether we're going to be sad.

  Lou Holtz

  Believe, Opportunity, Choices

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• I mean, I can get things done if I need to, but I can really be completely irresponsible and procrastinate until the very, very, very bitter end. In fact, sometimes I work better under pressure.

  Cameron Diaz

  Mean, Facts, Needs

  Interview With Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. October 6, 2005.

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• Having lost people when they were young, you feel intimately acquainted with mortality, I guess. Though I procrastinate worse than anybody.

  Dave Eggers

  People, Mortality, Lost

  "Dave Eggers: From 'staggering genius' to America's conscience". Interview with Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. March 6, 2010.

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• ...We need to strive to keep things in proper balance. Good balance comes in doing things in a timely way and in not procrastinating our preparation or waiting to fulfill our responsibilities until the last minute.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Responsibility, Waiting, Preparation

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• Inertia is so easy—don't fix what's not broken. Leave well enough alone. So we end up accepting what is broken, mistaking complaining for action, procrastinating for deliberation.

  Justina Chen

  Broken, Accepting What Is, Complaining

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• I think I grew a grey watching you procrastinate.

  Brandon Boyd

  Thinking, Grey, Grew

  "Song: 'A Certain Shade of Green'". 2004.

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• For me, writing is 75 percent procrastinating and 25 percent actually sitting down and working.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Writing, Sitting Down, Down And

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• I think a lot of the basis of the open source movement comes from procrastinating students.

  Andrew Tridgell

  Procrastination, Thinking, Movement

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• With the notebook resting ominuslously on Janie's bed, Janie procrastinates. Does her homework first. And pours herself a bowl of ceral. Breakfast - one of the five most important meals of the day. Not to be skipped.

  Lisa McMann

  Notebook, Important, Bed

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• I have no point in procrastinating any longer.

  Flora Rheta Schreiber

  No Point

  Flora Rheta Schreiber (1975). “Sybil”

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• ♥"I'm a procrastinating underachiever at heart."♥

  Pete Wentz

  Heart

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• Procrastinating is number three on my Stupid List. You still end up exactly where you didn't want to be, doing exactly what you didn't want to do, withe the only difference being that you lost all that time in between, during which you could have been doing something fun. Even worse, you probably stayed in a stressed-out, crappy mood the whole time you were avoiding it. If you know something is inevitable, do it and get it over with. Move on. Life is short.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Fun, Stupid, Moving

  FaceBook post by Karen Marie Moning from Oct 15, 2013

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• There does seem to be some evidence that as people get older, they procrastinate less, perhaps because they feel the pressure of time more.

  James Surowiecki

  People, Doe, Pressure

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

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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, Procrastination, Thinking

  Source: www.newyorker.com

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• I think there is clearly a connection between free time and procrastination. The more you have of the former, all things being equal, the more likely you are to procrastinate.

  James Surowiecki

  Procrastination, Thinking, Connections

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

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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, Procrastination, Mean

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• I don't procrastinate because I love the English language and the process of storytelling, and I'm always curious to see what will come to me next. If you procrastinate a lot, you might be one who loves having written, but doesn't so much like writing.

  Dean Koontz

  Writing, Might, Next

  "Interview with the Master of Suspense, Dean Koontz (part 1)". Interview with Trisha Sugarek, www.writeratplay.com. June 28, 2014.

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• I procrastinate, but mostly because there's always too many things to do, and I got the stew in my mind that things do bubble up, so I'll throw things in there and let them stew around. It's sort of like greasing the squeaky wheels in my own brain.

  Larry Wall

  Brain, Mind, Wheels

  "How to Code Like Larry Wall". Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• I procrastinate, and I push writing to the last available moment, because I don't like to settle on anything. I guess you can call it indecision or you can call it holding out for inspiration.

  Ariel Pink

  Inspiration, Writing, Moments

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• One of the things I'm really good at is procrastinating.

  Camilla Lackberg

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• I procrastinate in spades. In my defence, I also try to have all other distractions solved before I can concentrate on writing. My small theory is that to write for three hours, you need to feel like you have three days. To write for three days, you need to feel like you've got three weeks, and so on.

  Markus Zusak

  Writing, Trying, Three

  Interview with Sarah Kinson, www.theguardian.com. March 28, 2008.

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