Procrastination Quotes - Page 15

• It is not really work if you are having fun.

  Pierre Omidyar

  Fun, Ifs, Productivity

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• If you don't pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves.

  David Allen

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Encouragement

  Twitter post from Jun 10, 2009

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• Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform and mortal men lay hold on heaven.

  Edward Young

  Men, Heaven, Reform

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• Absolutely not. I'm an expert in procrastination, but the last thing I want you to think is that I'm incompetent, too. Because I'm actually pretty good at what I do." -Jo

  Nicholas Sparks

  Thinking, Experts, Want

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• Do not act as if you had a thousand years to live.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Years, Thousand, Ifs

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• Procrastination is also a subtle act of corruption – it corrupts valuable time

  Amit Abraham

  Corruption, Subtle, Valuable

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• If and perhaps.... The language of procrastination and uncertainty. That's just people looking to justify their own lack of action.

  John Flanagan

  Ifs And, People, Action

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• Procrastination is hardly more evil than grasping impatience.

  Immanuel Kant

  Evil, Impatience, Grasping

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• A procrastinator is a thief of his or her own time.

  Jhoon Goo Rhee

  Motivational, Time, Art

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• The era of procrastination...is coming to a close...we are entering a period of consequences - Winston Churchill (warning about the danger of appeasement

  Al Gore

  Entering, Warning, Eras

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• Does research get in the way of the story? It certainly can. Anything can, given that as writers we're all geniuses at procrastination. But mostly research teaches me about the world. Which often shows me the way, in terms of the story.

  Jim Shepard

  Doe, Genius, Stories

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The start is what stops most people.

  Don Shula

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• Don't let your want for perfection become procrastination

  Danielle LaPorte

  Perfection, Want

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• Procrastination is probably my worst habit out of many. Especially when it comes to paperwork.

  Tom Conti

  Habit, Worst, Paperwork

  "This much I know: Tom Conti". Interview with Shahesta Shaitly, www.theguardian.com. March 26, 2011.

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• When the time is right, you just got to do it.

  J. R. Simplot

  Time, Time Management

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• Perfectionism is the mother of procrastination.

  Michael Hyatt

  Mother, Perfectionism

  FaceBook post by Michael Hyatt from May 21, 2012

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• Clear, written goals have a wonderful effect on your thinking. They motivate you and galvanize you into action. They stimulate your creativity, release your energy, and help you to overcome procrastination as much as any other factor.

  Brian Tracy

  Leadership, Motivation, Creativity

  Brian Tracy (2008). “Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time”, p.5, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• A lobster, when left high and dry among the rock, does not have the sense enough to work his way back to the sea, but waits for the sea to come to him. If it does not come, he remains where he is and dies, although the slightest effort would enable him to reach the waves, which are perhaps within a yard of him. The world is full of human lobsters; people stranded on the rocks of indecision and procrastination, who, instead of putting forth their own energies, are waiting for some grand billow of good fortune to set them afloat.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Rocks, Sea, People

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• It sometimes seems that we live as if we wonder when life is going to begin. It isn't always clear just what we are waiting for, but some of us sometimes persist in waiting so long that life slips by - finding us still waiting for something that has been going on all the time. . . . This is the life in which the work of this life is to be done. Today is as much a part of eternity as any day a thousand years ago or as will be any day a thousand years hence. This is it, whether we are thrilled or disappointed, busy or bored! This is life, and it is passing.

  Richard L. Evans

  Years, Long, Bored

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• One element of maturity is the realization that we don't get away with anything. Any advantage gained or convenience taken, any private procrastination or insincerity, no matter how subtle or quick in passing, is paid for.

  Hugh Prather

  Taken, Maturity, Elements

  Hugh Prather (2001). “Love and Courage”, p.81, Conari Press

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• I ... practiced all the arts of apology, evasion, and invisibility, to which procrastinators must sooner or later be reduced.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Art, Apology, Invisibility

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1825). “Works”, p.388

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• the obligation to express gratitude deepens with procrastination. The longer you wait, the more effusive must be the thanks.

  Judith Martin

  Gratitude, Waiting, Thanks

  Judith Martin (1996). “Miss Manners Rescues Civilization: From Sexual Harassment, Frivolous Lawsuits, Dissing, and Other Lapses in Civility”, Crown

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• Today's greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Saving, Today, Tomorrow

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• The most life destroying word of all is the word tomorrow.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Rich Life, Inspire

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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, Mean, Life Is

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