Procrastination Quotes - Page 13

• Early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
  Early bird gets the worm, but the second worm gets to live.
  Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy.

  Edgar Bergen

  Ambition, Bird, Lazy

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• One thing that's good about procrastination is that you always have something planned for tomorrow.

  Gladys Bronwyn Stern

  Tomorrow, One Thing

  "Women Know Everything!: 3,241 Quips, Quotes, and Brilliant Remarks". Book by Karen Weekes, p. 480, March 29, 2007.

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• If you have newspapers dating to the last millennium, magazines from the Seventies stacked on your nightstand, and countless envelopes filled with family photos stuffed in a drawer, you may be carrying procrastination to an extreme.

  Marilyn Sokol

  Dating, Magazines, May

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• Procrastination can be driven from your personality through the simple technique of constantly commanding yourself to get into action . . . and then obeying that command immediately.

  Og Mandino

  Motivational, Simple, Personality

  Og Mandino (1991). “Og Mandino”, Outlet

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• Somebody was using the pencil.

  Dorothy Parker

  Pencils

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• Drug use and procrastination often go hand in tourniquet.

  Will Self

  Drug Use, Hands, Drug

  Will Self (2012). “Junk Mail: Reissued”, p.5, A&C Black

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• Imagination only comes when you privilege the subconscious, when you make delay and procrastination work for you.

  Hilary Mantel

  Imagination, Delay, Privilege

  "Hilary Mantel: 'If I'm suffering, I can make that pay'" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. October 17, 2012.

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• Procrastination is one of the most expensive invisible costs in business today.

  Rory Vaden

  Cost, Today, Invisible

  Rory Vaden (2012). “Take the Stairs: 7 Steps to Achieving True Success”, p.37, Penguin

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• Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until he knew enough to write them well. Well, he would not have to fail at trying to write them either. Maybe you could never write them, and that was why you put them off and delayed the starting. Well he would never know, now.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Trying, Failing

  Ernest Hemingway (2002). “The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

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• Potential is an excuse to procrastinate; Ambition is a means to thrive.

  Donovan King

  Ambition, Mean, Excuse

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• Procrastination and impatience form a system of checks and balances.

  Mason Cooley

  Balance, Impatience, Checks

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• The first is based in fear, the second in fearlessness.

  Rhonda Britten

  Firsts, Fearlessness

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• If only I could master that demon of procrastination that goes about like a roaring lion and devours all my good intentions, I should become the most punctual man in the world.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Men, Roaring, World

  Henrik Ibsen (1905). “The Correspondence of Henrik Ibsen”

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• If you see a bandwagon, it's too late.

  James Goldsmith

  Leadership, Motivation, Business

  "Sir James Goldsmith, Financier, Dies at 64" by Youssed M. Ibrahim, www.nytimes.com. July 20, 1997.

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• What is the definition of procrastination? It means: I can feel within my Energy sensor that this action is not in perfect alignment at this time.

  Esther Hicks

  Mean, Perfect, Energy

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• of all the follies that we can commit, the greatest is to hesitate.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Folly, Commit

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• Later is always my first choice.

  Mason Cooley

  Choices, Firsts

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• Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.

  George Horace Lorimer

  Putting Things Off, Impossible, Procrastinating

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• I try to procrastinate, if I can, productively, like I'll work on something else as procrastination. Or I take a walk. Because often I find, if you get out, more things come to you.

  Noah Baumbach

  Trying, Procrastinating, Walks

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• Doesn't reincarnation strike you as just another form of procrastination?

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Reincarnation, Form, Strikes

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• The surest way to be late is to have plenty of time

  Leo Kennedy

  Time, Way, Late

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• Procrastination is your body telling you you need to back off a bit and think more about what you are doing.

  James Altucher

  Thinking, Needs, Body

  "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Mediocre People" by James Altucher, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 4, 2012.

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• Go ahead and do things, the bigger the better, if your fundamentals are sound. Avoid procrastination. Do not quibble for an hour over things that might be decided in minutes. However, if the issue at stake is large, stay as long as the next man, but go ahead and do things.

  John J. Raskob

  Men, Issues, Long

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• Procrastination is the beginning of poor performance.

  Ron Kaufman

  Service Culture, Poor, Performances

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• While we are postponing, life speeds by.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

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