629 Quotes About Procrastination

Don't try to leave for there's so very much to do, and you still have over eight hundred years to go on the first job.' 'But why do only unimportant things?' 'Think of all the trouble it saves. If you only do the easy and useless jobs, you'll never have to worry about the important ones which are so difficult. You just won't have the time. For there's always something to do to keep you from what you really should be doing.

You can put off your dreams, your desires, your careers, your farms. You can avoid your responsibilities, obligations, promises, and sovereign rights. But any person who wants to make music, and doesn't, is a goddamned fool.

Just because we're busy doesn't mean we're being productive. Working is one of the most dangerous forms of procrastination.

I have noticed that the majority of people procrastinate. In fact, it’s way more common than the common cold itself.

Capable psychonauts who think about thinking, about states of mind, about set and setting, can get things done not because they have more willpower or drive, but because they know productivity is a game played against a childish primal human predilection for pleasure and novelty that can never be excised from the soul. Your effort is better spent outsmarting yourself than making empty promises through plugging dates into a calendar or setting deadlines for push-ups.

Nowadays, our lifestyle is to follow the herd than to use the head.

How easy it is to slip.How hard it is to climb.How wise it is to keep in stepAnd never fall behind.

If you fail to believe you will procrastinate or become idealustic about how awesome you are at working hard and managing your time, you never develop a strategy for outmaneuvering your own weakness.

As a reformed procrastinator, I'm now getting things done in the first 10 seconds of the last minute.