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• Fear of success is far more dangerous than fear of failure, because the subconscious mind works to prevent that which it fears. People may fear success because of low self-esteem and feeling of not deserving it; because it will increase what others expect of them. Fear of success shows up as anxiety, indecision, avoidance, procrastination or acceptance of mediocrity.

  Joe Tye

  Self Esteem, Acceptance, Deserving It

  Joe Tye (2000). “Personal Best: 1001 Great Ideas for Achieving Success in Your Career”, Mjf Books

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• Procrastination is the longest word in the language, but there's only one letter between its ends when they occupy their proper places in the alphabet.

  George Horace Lorimer

  Letters, Alphabet, Language

  George Horace Lorimer (2016). “Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son”, p.22, Lulu.com

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• Many writers-in-waiting spend a lot of time avoiding the work at hand. The most common way to avoid writing is by procrastination. This is the writer's greatest enemy. There is little to say about it except that once you decide to write every day, you must make yourself sit at the desk or table for the required period whether or not you are putting down words. Make yourself take the time even if the hours seem fruitless. Ideally, after a few days or weeks of being chained to the desk, you will submit to the story that must be told.

  Walter Mosley

  Writing, Hands, Waiting

  Walter Mosley (2009). “This Year You Write Your Novel”, p.9, Hachette UK

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• The best cure for procrastination is to have so much on your plate that procrastination is no longer an option.

  Tavi Gevinson

  Cures, Plates

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• Do not procrastinate. Someone has said that procrastination is the thief of time. Actually, procrastination is much more. It is the thief of our self-respect. It nags at us and spoils our fun. It deprives us of the fullest realization of our ambitions and hopes.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Fun, Ambition, Self

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• We are faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words ‘Too Late’.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Civilization, Thieves, Too Late

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• The momentum of continuous action fuels motivation, while procrastination kills motivation.

  Steve Pavlina

  Motivation, Momentum, Fuel

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• This is a pie chart about procrastination.

  Demetri Martin

  Funny, Humor, Pie

  "Demetri Martin. Person". Documentary, Comedy, Music, www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• Don't let perfection become procrastination . Do it now.

  Danielle LaPorte

  Perfection

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• Nothing is more burdensome than an unfinished task.

  Jim Rohn

  Tasks, Unfinished

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• You must master the habit of procrastination and eliminate it from your wake-up. This habit of putting off until tomorrow that which you should have done last week or last year or a score of years ago is gnawing at the very vitals of your being and you can accomplish nothing until you throw it off.

  Napoleon Hill

  Accomplish Nothing, Should Have, Years

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• I, for one, find writing excruciating. Some mornings, as I'm on my way to my desk, my hands actually tremble with fear. The fear, of course, is that I'll sit down at the desk and discover that what I've written is claptrap. Fear inevitably leads to procrastination.

  Rosemary Mahoney

  Morning, Writing, Hands

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• I have a funny process : it’s called procrastination.

  K. K. Barrett

  Process

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• If we are to achieve long-range goals, we must learn to set up and accomplish short-range goals that will move us along the way. If we do not consciously select our goals, we may be controlled by goals not of our own choosing - goals imposed by outside pressures (such as the expectations of others) or by our habits (such as procrastination) or by our desire for the approval of the world.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Moving, Long, Generosity

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• Punctuality is closely related to faithfulness and dependability. Being tardy can be linked to uninterest, apathy, slothfulness and procrastination.

  Sterling W Sill

  Apathy, Faithfulness, Punctuality

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• Festination may prove Precipitation;
  Deliberating delay may be wise cunctation.

  Thomas Browne

  Wise, Haste, Delay

  Sir Thomas Browne (1845). “Religio Medici: Together with a Letter to a Friend on the Death of His Intimate Friend and Christian Morals”, p.278

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• My favorite procrastination is to make the choice to have valuable times with human beings that I care about instead of holing myself up alone to get my work done.

  Bob Saget

  Choices, Done, Care

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• Faith in to-morrow, instead of Christ, is Satan's nurse for man's perdition.

  George Barrell Cheever

  Men, Nurse, Satan

  George Barrell Cheever (1855). “Windings of the river of the water of life: in the development, discipline, and fruits of faith”, p.48

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• I don't think of it as procrastination. I think of it as allowing my work to accumulate urgency.

  Maud Newton

  Thinking, Allowing, Urgency

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• If procrastination were a marketable skill, I'd be a real hot commodity.

  Dov Davidoff

  Real, Skills, Hot

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• Resisting a task is usually a sign that it's meaningful-which is why it's awakening your fears and stimulating procrastination. You could adopt "Do whatever you're resisting the most" as a philosophy of life.

  Oliver Burkeman

  Meaningful, Philosophy, Tasks

  Oliver Burkeman (2011). “HELP!: How to Become Slightly Happier and Get a Bit More Done”, p.116, Canongate Books

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• Prudence is not hesitation, procrastination, or moderation. It is not driving in the middle of the road. It is not the way of ambivalence, indecision, or safety.

  John Ortberg

  Safety, Way, Driving

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• Such is our impatience, such our hatred of procrastination, to everything but the amendment of our practices and the adornment of our nature, one would imagine we were dragging Time along by force, and not he us.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Practice, Hatred, Imagine

  Walter Savage Landor (1868). “Indexes. Table of first lines. Imaginary conversations”, p.5

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• Straightway is a power word. Straightway is an action word. It means immediately, without delay or hesitation. It means at once. Also, it is associated with having no curve or turn-a straight course, track, or path. Procrastination would be the very opposite of straightway. To procrastinate is to put off intentionally and habitually something that should be done. Procrastination is unproductive delay.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Mean, Curves, Opposites

  Marvin J. Ashton (1987). “Be of Good Cheer”, Deseret Book Co

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• Most procrastination is largely indecision. Someone has said that "hell is just truth seen too late."

  Sterling W Sill

  Too Late, Hell, Indecision

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