Procrastination Quotes - Page 14

• Postpone not your life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• My procrastination which has held me back was born of fear ... now I know that to conquer fear I must always act without hesitation and the flutters in my heart will vanish. Now I know that action reduces the lion of terror.... I will walk where the failure fears to walk.

  Og Mandino

  Heart, Greatness, Lions

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• Killing for pleasure is wrong and should be banned. Fox hunting, stag hunting and hare coursing are moral issues. It is time that we stood up for morality. The commandment Thou shall not kill may be hedged with exceptions.Thou shall not kill for pleasure is not; it is a commandment for the 21st century and it is time that we respected it unambiguously, without prevarication and without procrastination.

  Lyndon Harrison, Baron Harrison

  Hunting, Issues, May

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• I'm a big believer in putting things off, In fact, I even put off procrastinating. -Ella Varner

  Lisa Kleypas

  Putting Things Off, Facts, Bigs

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• I used to go online all the time, and then I had to stop myself... because I'm a writer, and it's like: to have a procrastination tool, like, within my computer... it was just getting too hairy.

  Mike White

  Tools, Computer, Online

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• Peace is more than a lofty ideal. It is a practical principle that, with conscious effort, can become a normal part of our lives as we deal with matters both large and small. One habit that prevents inner peace is procrastination. It clutters our minds with unfinished business and makes us uneasy until we finish a task and get it out of the way.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Unfinished Business, Effort, Inner Peace

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• I swing between procrastination and being really thorough so either way things aren't getting done quickly.

  Freema Agyeman

  Swings, Done, Way

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• How comfortable some of us become as we nestle in the web of procrastination. It is a false haven of rest for those who are content to live without purpose, commitment, or self-discipline.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Commitment, Self, Discipline

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• My favorite method of procrastination is to do something else that needs doing, but not quite so imminently. Sleeping is also good, as is drinking until you really can't do anything very well anymore.

  Stanley Bing

  Drinking, Sleep, Needs

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• Giving up on our long-term goals for immediate gratification, my friends, is procrastination.

  Dan Ariely

  Giving Up, Long, Goal

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• There is, by God's grace, an immeasurable distance between late and too late.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Distance, Grace, Too Late

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• Creative avoidance is the type of procrastination that affects home business entrepreneurs the most. It is unconsciously filling our day with trivial, unimportant work.

  Rory Vaden

  Home, Entrepreneur, Creative

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• Procrastination is illogical from every viewpoint. It is like the man who wanted to cross the stream, so he sat on the bank to wait for all the water to run by.

  Vernon Howard

  Running, Men, Water

  "There Is A Way Out!". Book by Vernon Howard, 1975.

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• Step by step, you make your way forward. That’s why practices such as daily writing exercises or keeping a daily blog can be so helpful. You see yourself do the work, which shows you that you can do the work. Progress is reassuring and inspiring; panic and then despair set in when you find yourself getting nothing done day after day. One of the painful ironies of work life is that the anxiety of procrastination often makes people even less likely to buckle down in the future.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Motivational, Writing, Exercise

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• Working is one of the most dangerous forms of procrastination.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Form, Dangerous, Authentic Happiness

  Twitter post from Sep 19, 2016

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• Unfinished business is our worst business. Perpetual procrastination must yield to perceptive preparation. Today we have a little more time to bless others-time to be kinder, more compassionate, quicker to thank and slower to scold, more generous in sharing, more gracious in caring.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Caring, Unfinished Business, Yield

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• Winding up unfinished business with another person can give you a great burst of positive energy.

  Brian Tracy

  Motivation, Unfinished Business, Giving

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Aug 01, 2011

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• I write at a standing desk, which has helped me be much more productive and solved some back problems, but mostly all my quirky habits have to do with procrastination and avoidance rather than with work. I'm slowly trying to stamp those out.

  Paolo Bacigalupi

  Writing, Quirky, Trying

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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• Death will be so quick to swoop on you; Gather merit till that moment comes! Wait till then to banish laziness? Then there'll be no time, what will you do? "This I have not done. And this I'm only starting. And this - I'm only halfway through ..." Then is the sudden coming of the Lord of Death, And oh, the thought 'Alas, I'm finished.'

  Shantideva

  Waiting, Done, Laziness

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• Reluctance to begin is quick to befriend procrastination. . . .

  Kate Morton

  Reluctance

  Kate Morton (2010). “The Kate Morton Collection: The House at Riverton and The Forgotten Garden”, p.101, Simon and Schuster

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• One of the great challenges of our age, in which the tools of our productivity are also the tools of our leisure, is to figure out how to make more useful those moments of procrastination when we're idling in front of our computer screens.

  Joshua Foer

  Productive Work, Challenges, Age

  "How I learned a language in 22 hours" by Joshua Foer, www.theguardian.com. November 09, 2012.

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• The old saying that "success breeds success" has something to it. It's that feeling of confidence that can banish negativity and procrastination and get you going the right way.

  Donald Trump

  Success, Confidence, Focus

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• Any time we have projects that we haven't begun or completed, they drain energy.

  Arianna Huffington

  Energy, Projects, Drains

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• Perfectionism is not as much the desire for excellence, as it is the fear of failure couched in procrastination .

  Dan Miller

  Excellence, Desire, Fear Of Failure

  Dan Miller (2015). “48 Days to the Work You Love: Preparing for the New Normal”, p.86, B&H Publishing Group

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• I once heard a sober alcoholic say that drinking never made him happy, but it made him feel like he was going to be happy in about fifteen minutes. That was exactly it, and I couldn't understand why the happiness never came, couldn't see the flaw in my thinking, couldn't see that alcohol kept me trapped in a world of illusion, procrastination, paralysis. I lived always in the future, never in the present. Next time, next time! Next time I drank it would be different, next time it would make me feel good again.

  Heather King

  Drinking, Thinking, Addiction

  Heather King (2006). “Parched”, p.100, Penguin

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