Procrastination Quotes - Page 12

• One of greatest thieves this world has is procrastination, and he is still at large. Are we aiding and abetting the criminal?

  Sterling W Sill

  Criminals, Thieves, World

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• Your success in life and work will be determined by the kinds of habits that you develop over time. The habit of setting priorities, overcoming procrastination, and getting on with your most important task is a mental and physical skill. As such, this habit is learnable through practice and repetition, over and over again, until it locks into your subsconscious mind and becomes a permanent part of your behaviour.

  Brian Tracy

  Life, Success, Work

  Brian Tracy (2008). “Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time”, p.14, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Vagueness and procrastination are ever a comfort to the frail in spirit.

  John Updike

  Comfort, Vagueness, Spirit

  John Updike (2009). “In the Beauty of the Lilies: A Novel”, p.39, Random House

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• When you find yourself on the Internet when you're supposed to be writing, you've already lost. It's even beyond procrastination when you end up on the Internet.

  Noah Baumbach

  Writing, Finding Yourself, Internet

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• Inaction that results from indulgence is Procrastination. Inaction that results from intention is Patience.

  Rory Vaden

  Intention, Results, Indulgence

  Rory Vaden (2015). “Procrastinate on Purpose: 5 Permissions to Multiply Your Time”, p.113, Penguin

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• Procrastination is a deadly weapon of human progress.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Progress, Weapons, Humans

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• I like movies. I've written screenplays as a sort of procrastination thing for me. Like I'll work for a couple months on this idea that's been kicking around and then like 30 pages in I'll just go try a novel because it's a lot easier. That's what I know. So why am I killing myself?

  Colson Whitehead

  Couple, Ideas, Trying

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Procrastinate strategically... Procrastination may be the enemy of productivity but it can be a valuable resource for creativity.

  Adam Grant

  Creativity, Enemy, May

  "Give & Take with Adam Grant, Top Contrarian Self-Help Expert". Interview with Marty Nemko, www.psychologytoday.com. December 31, 2015.

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• A good procrastination should feel like you're inserting lots and lots of commas into the sentence of your life.

  Ze Frank

  Like You, Should, Feels

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• Procrastination-thou wretched thief of time and opportunity!

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Opportunity, Thieves, Wretched

  Spencer W. Kimball (1982). “The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”

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• Procrastination is another form of resistance

  Louise Hay

  Resistance, Form

  FaceBook post by Louise Hay from Nov 29, 2011

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• Procrastination in the beginning and precipitation towards the conclusion is the characteristic of such bodies.

  James Madison

  Body, Characteristics, Conclusion

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• Do not delay,
  Do not delay: the golden moments fly!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Golden Moments, Delay, Golden

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.817, Jazzybee Verlag

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

  Andrew Tridgell

  Thinking, Movement, Students

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• Procrastination is the soul rebelling against entrapment.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Soul, Entrapment

  FaceBook post by Nassim Nicholas Taleb from Sep 27, 2010

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• Once a job it has begun, do not stop until it's done. Whether it is big or small, do it well or not all.

  Bear Grylls

  Jobs, Done, Bigs

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• Procrastination is what we often call 'resistance.

  William Peter Blatty

  Resistance

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• However much faith to obey God we now have, we will need to strengthen it continually and keep it refreshed constantly. We can do that by deciding now to be more quick to obey and more determined to endure. Learning to start early and to be steady are the keys to spiritual preparation. Procrastination and inconsistency are its mortal enemies.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Spiritual, Keys, Enemy

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• No age or time of life, no position or circumstance, has a monopoly on success. Any age is the right age to start doing!

  Ralph W. Gerard

  Success, Age, Monopoly

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• Climate change has a very high procrastination penalty that just grows with each passing year of inaction - rather like what happens if you don't pay off your credit card. But for climate, there is no such thing as a fresh start from bankruptcy.

  William H. Calvin

  Years, Climate, Cards

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• Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.

  Epictetus

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• Where duty is plain delay is both foolish and hazardous; where it is not, delay may be both wisdom and safety.

  Tryon Edwards

  Wisdom, Safety, Delay

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.298, Ravenio Books

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• 'Never put off tomorrow what you can do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent morality, I am forever letting tomorrow's work slop into today's and doing painfully and nervously today what I could do quickly and easily tomorrow.

  J. A. Spender

  Forever, Today, Morality

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• There is sometimes only a very fine line between deliberation and procrastination.

  Paul Allen Walker

  Lines, Sometimes, Deliberation

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• We went to lunch and were talking about procrastination and the waitress overheard us and she said, 'I have a problem with procrastination, too.' I said 'Really?... Get my sandwich.'

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Talking, Lunch, Sandwiches

  "Ellen DeGeneres: Here and Now". www.imdb.com. 2003.

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