We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand-and melting like a snowflake.” 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.” It comes from not finishing what they started.” “Much of the stress that people feel doesn’t come from having too much to do. “Every thing in human character goes to wreck, under the reign of procrastination, while prompt action gives to all things a corresponding and proportional life and energy.” Opening Stanza to “Do it Now,” From Retail Clerks International Association, 1913 If you’ve got to chop wood, chop it If you’ve got to stop drinkin’, stop it.” What’s the use raisin’ a row? If you’ ve got anything to do, do it. More time for anxiety to sap your self-confidence. Putting off an unpleasant task until tomorrow simply gives you more time for your imagination to make a mountain out a possible molehill. “Anger is the only thing to put off till tomorrow.” “What may be done at any time will be done at no time.” “What can be done at any time is never done at all.” “Nothing in the world is as urgent, that it couldn’t become even more urgent tomorrow.” “When there is a hill to climb, don’t think that waiting will make it smaller.” “Procrastination is the grave in which opportunity is buried.” “Never put off till tomorrow, what you can do the day after tomorrow.” “My parents told me I’d never amount to anything because I procrastinated too much. “It is better to have loafed and lost than never to have loafed at all.” ” ‘Never put off tomorrow what you can do today.’ Under the influence of this pestilent morality, I am forever letting tomorrow’s work slop into today’s and doing painfully and nervously today what I could do quickly and easily tomorrow.” “Drug use and procrastination often go hand in tourniquet.” “Do nothing by halves which can be done by quarters.” “There’s nothing to match curling up with a good book when there’s a repair job to be done around the house.” “Like many people, I started blogging out of an urgent need to procrastinate.” “If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing and from robbing he next comes to drinking and sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.” “Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.” “Live, drink, be merry, love the reeling midnight through,įor tomorrow ye may die, but alas we never do.” “If a thing’s worth doing, its worth doing late.” “Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.”ĭon Marquis (1927, Certain Maxims of Archy) “I’m going to stop putting things off, starting tomorrow!” “Procrastination gives you something to look forward to.” “Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.” “One of the greatest labor-saving inventions of today is tomorrow.” “Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday and avoiding today.” “We went to lunch and were talking about procrastination and the waitress overheard us and she said, ‘I have a problem with procrastination, too.’ I said ‘Really?… Get my sandwich.’” By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.” “Nothing separates the generations more than music. “A perfect method for adding drama to life is to wait until the deadline looms large.” “Procrastination is reading all the quotes on this page when you have a huge report due tomorrow.” “Anyone can do any amount of work providing it isn’t the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment.” “We don’t have anything as urgent as mañana in Ireland.” I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.” “You know you’re gettin old when it takes too much effort to procrastinate.” “The two rules of procrastination: 1) Do it today. At first it feels good, but in the end you’re only screwing yourself.” “Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.” “The sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up.” “Procrastination: A hardening of the oughteries.”
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