Procrastination Quotes - Page 16

• We can be of so much service to others in many thou-shalt ways. Of course, the problem is that rendering such service takes time, and we are all so busy. Some situations may call for service that somehow seems to be beneath us. Besides, we have other things to do. The thou shalts are so convenient to put off. Who will notice the procrastination anyway? After all, we are not robbing a bank. Or are there forms of withholding that constitute stealing?

  Neal A. Maxwell

  May, Way, Busy

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• Turning pro is a mindset. If we are struggling with fear, self-sabotage, procrastination, self-doubt, etc., the problem is, we’re thinking like amateurs. Amateurs don’t show up. Amateurs crap out. Amateurs let adversity defeat them. The pro thinks differently. He shows up, he does his work, he keeps on truckin’, no matter what.

  Steven Pressfield

  Struggle, Adversity, Thinking

  "From Cabbie to Best-Selling Author: Steve Pressfield on ‘Turning Pro’" by Greg Clarkin, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 16, 2012.

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• I think the worst and most insidious procrastination for me is research. I will be looking for some bit of fact or figure to include in the novel, and before I know, I've wasted an entire morning delving into that subject matter without a word written.

  James Rollins

  Morning, Thinking, Research

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• Waiting is a trap. There will always be reasons to wait. The truth is, there are only two things in life, reasons and results, and reasons simply don't count.

  Robert Anthony

  Life, Motivational, Two

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• Procrastination, as it may be applied to Gospel principles, is the thief of eternal life - which is life in the presence of the Father and the Son. There are many among us, even members of the Church, who feel that there is no need for haste in the observance of Gospel principles and the keeping of the commandments.

  Joseph Fielding Smith

  Father, Son, Church

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• I have a problem with procrastination. I have a great deal of difficulty deciding what to wear. It's a woman thing.

  Lauryn Hill

  Problem, Difficulty, Deals

  "They Call Me Ms. Hill". Interview with Joan Morgan, www.essence.com. December 16, 2009.

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• I have an advanced degree in procrastination and another one in paranoia.

  Joanne Harris

  Degrees, Paranoia

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• Be wise today; 'tis madness to defer. Next day the fatal precedent will plead; thus on, til wisdom is pushed our of life.

  Edward Young

  Wise, Next Day, Today

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  Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.

  Haile Selassie

  Should Have, Voice, Evil

  1963 Address to a special session of the UN General Assembly, 4 Oct, making him the first head of state to address both that organization and the League of Nations.

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• There is a danger in the word someday when what it means is “not this day.”...The scriptures make the danger of delay clear. It is that we may discover that we have run out of time. The God who gives us each day as a treasure will require an accounting. We will weep, and He will weep, if we have intended to repent and to serve Him in tomorrows which never came or have dreamt of yesterdays where the opportunity to act was past. This day is a precious gift of God. The thought “Someday I will” can be a thief of the opportunities of time and the blessings of eternity.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Inspirational, Bible, God

  FaceBook post by Henry B Eyring from Jan 08, 2015

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• Procrastination is attitude's natural assassin. There's nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task

  William James

  Attitude, Tasks, Assassins

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• As a writer, I need an enormous amount of time alone. Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box, watching infomercials. It's a matter of doing everything you can to avoid writing, until it is about four in the morning and you reach the point where you have to write. Having anybody watching that or attempting to share it with me would be grisly.

  Paul Rudnick

  Morning, Reading, Writing

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• If the world is a progressively realized community of interpretation, then either quadruplictity will drink procrastination or, provided that the nothing negates, boredom will ensue seldom more often than frequently.

  Woody Allen

  Boredom, Community, World

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• That was the year, my twenty-eighth, when I was discovering that not all of the promises would be kept, that some things are in fact irrevocable and that it had counted after all, every evasion and every procrastination, every mistake, every word, all of it.

  Joan Didion

  Mistake, Years, Promise

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Aug 16, 2011

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• Academics, who work for long periods in a self-directed fashion, may be especially prone to putting things off: surveys suggest that the vast majority of college students procrastinate, and articles in the literature of procrastination often allude to the author's own problems with finishing the piece.

  James Surowiecki

  Fashion, College, Self

  "Later". www.newyorker.com. October 11, 2010.

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• You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Procrastination is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fled.

  Edward Young

  Years, Literature, Thieves

  Edward Young, George Gilfillan (1853). “Night Thoughts”, p.17

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• The essence of procrastination lies in not doing what you think you should be doing, a mental contortion that surely accounts for the great psychic toll the habit takes on people. This is the perplexing thing about procrastination: although it seems to involve avoiding unpleasant tasks, indulging in it generally doesn't make people happy.

  James Surowiecki

  Lying, Thinking, Essence

  "Later". www.newyorker.com. October 11, 2010.

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• The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings.

  Thomas Sowell

  Productive Life, Productive Work, People

  Thomas Sowell (2013). “Controversial Essays”, p.319, Hoover Press

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• Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement.

  Henry Miller

  Life, Long, Action

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.96, New Directions Publishing

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• All we have is here and now. That's why procrastination feels so right. Procrastination isn't the problem, it's the solution.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Funny, Humor, Problem

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• Few understand that procrastination is our natural defense, letting things take care of themselves and exercise their antifragility; it results from some ecological or naturalistic wisdom, and is not always bad - at an existential level, it is my body rebelling against its entrapment. It is my soul fighting the Procrustean bed of modernity.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Fighting, Exercise, Soul

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2012). “Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder”, p.122, Random House

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• Nothing says work efficiency like panic mode.

  Don Roff

  Panic, Efficiency, Procrastinating

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• Action will destroy your procrastination.

  Og Mandino

  Clever, Self Esteem, Action

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• Life is a race. If you delay starting, how can you have any hope of winning?

  Randall Wright

  Winning, Race, Delay

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