Quotes about Procrastination
No, the real reason is this: Meetings are a great place to hide. Meetings are where we go to wait for someone else to take responsibility. Meetings are a safe haven, a refuge from what might happen.
— Seth Godin
No, said Godfrey, with a keen decisiveness of tone, in contrast with his usually careless and unemphatic speech—there's debts we can't pay like money debts, by paying extra for the years that have slipped by. While I've been putting off and putting off, the trees have been growing—it's too late now. Marner was in the right in what he said about a man's turning away a blessing from his door: it falls to somebody else.
— George Eliot
I will wait till after Christmas." What should we all do without the calendar, when we want to put off a disagreeable duty? The admirable arrangements of the solar system, by which our time is measured, always supply us with a term before which it is hardly worthwhile to set about anything we are disinclined to.
— George Eliot
What should we all do without the calendar, when we want to put off a disagreeable duty? The admirable arrangements of the solar system, by which our time is measured, always supply us with a term before which it is hardly worth while to set about anything we are disinclined to.
— George Eliot
I have, all my life long, been lying till noon; yet I tell all young men, and tell them with great sincerity, that nobody who does not rise early will ever do any good.
— Samuel Johnson
I decided a long time ago but sometimes it takes you 40 years to get around to doing something - and that's the truthful answer.
— Dustin Hoffman
The Slothful do not have the time to become virtuous or despicable.
— Henry David Thoreau
No man is so methodical as a complete idler, and none so scrupulous in measuring out his time as he whose time is worth nothing.
— Washington Irving
Please don't ask me to do that which I've just said I'm not going to do, because you're burning up time. The meter is running through the sand on you, and I am now filibustering.
— George H. W. Bush
When we waste our time, our time wastes us.
— Robin Sharma
I don't think you have time to waste not writing because you are afraid you won't be good at it.
— Anne Lamott
By and by never comes.
— St. Augustine