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Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. -- Don Marquis
Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy. -- Wayne Gretzky
Procrastination is the thief of time. -- Edward Young
Procrastination has robbed us of too many opportunities. -- Sarah Ban Breathnach
Procrastination is the grave in which opportunity is buried. -- Alyce Cornyn-Selby
Procrastination is assassination on the amazing future God has for you. -- Perry Noble
Procrastination is the kidnapper of souls and the recruiting-officer of hell. -- Edward Irving
Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the "someday I'll" philosophy. -- Denis Waitley
Procrastination is opportunity's assassin. -- Victor Kiam
Procrastination is the fear of success. -- Denis Waitley
Procrastination is a lazy man's apology. -- Chinua Achebe
Procrastination is another form of resistance -- Louise Hay
Procrastination is the beginning of poor performance. -- Ron Kaufman
Procrastination is the soul rebelling against entrapment. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Procrastination robs the world of countless treasures. -- Brian Rathbone
Procrastination-thou wretched thief of time and opportunity! -- Spencer W. Kimball
Procrastination is suicide on the installment plan. -- Arnold Bennett
Procrastination is what we often call 'resistance. -- William Peter Blatty
Procrastination is the seed of self destruction. -- Matthew Burton
Procrastination is a sign of a perfectionist. -- Patrick J. Kennedy
Procrastination is a deadly weapon of human progress. -- Marvin J. Ashton
Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him. -- Charles Dickens
Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder. -- Mason Cooley
Procrastination is hardly more evil than grasping impatience. -- Immanuel Kant
Procrastination causes pressure that zaps creativity and excellence. -- Todd Stocker
Procrastination always gives you something to look forward to. -- Joan Konner
Procrastination is, hands down, our favorite form of self-sabotage. -- Alyce Cornyn-Selby
Procrastination and impatience form a system of checks and balances. -- Mason Cooley
Procrastination is one of the most expensive invisible costs in business today. -- Rory Vaden
Procrastination is the best action against putting an ankle bracelet on future. -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Procrastination is attitude's natural assassin. There's nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task -- William James
Procrastination is a way of living in the past instead of the present moment. -- Debasish Mridha
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My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season. -- Mary Todd Lincoln
Stop putting it off! Procrastination breeds guilt, guilt breeds depression, and depression breeds failure. -- Barbara Corcoran
Inaction that results from indulgence is Procrastination. Inaction that results from intention is Patience. -- Rory Vaden
Procrastination is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fled. -- Edward Young
Procrastination is not the problem. It is the solution. Procrastinate now, don't put it off. -- Ellen DeGeneres
Procrastination is probably my worst habit out of many. Especially when it comes to paperwork. -- Tom Conti
Procrastination in the beginning and precipitation towards the conclusion is the characteristic of such bodies. -- James Madison
Procrastination is like a credit card: it's a lot of fun until you get the bill. -- Christopher Parker
Procrastination is One of those Excuses, Born of Fear, that we Use to Keep Ourselves Stuck -- Wayne Dyer
My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time. -- Charles Dickens
Procrastinate strategically...Procrastination may be the enemy of productivity but it can be a valuable resource for creativity. -- Adam Grant
Procrastination is not Laziness", I tell him. "It is fear. Call it by its right name, and forgive yourself. -- Julia Cameron
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
Procrastination isn't the problem. It's the solution. It's the universe's way of saying stop, slow down, you move too fast. -- Ellen DeGeneres
Procrastination and excuses really have the energy to make your picture small and blurred if you offer them that image! -- Israelmore Ayivor
Procrastination is your body telling you you need to back off a bit and think more about what you are doing. -- James Altucher
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday. -- Napoleon Hill
Procrastination is the longest word in the language, but there's only one letter between its ends when they occupy their proper places in the alphabet. -- George Horace Lorimer
Procrastination can be driven from your personality through the simple technique of constantly commanding yourself to get into action . . . and then obeying that command immediately. -- Og Mandino
Procrastination is illogical from every viewpoint. It is like the man who wanted to cross the stream, so he sat on the bank to wait for all the water to run by. -- Vernon Howard
Procrastination also can be a way of self-handicapping: if you don't do a great job, you can always say to yourself, "If I'd only started sooner, I'd have been able to produce something excellent." -- James Surowiecki
Procrastination is a common reaction to feeling overwhelmed or fear of failure. Instead of taking on too much at once and overwhelming yourself, break things down and take one small action step at a time. -- Lauren Mackler
The assumption of time is one of humanity's greatest follies. We tell ourselves that there's always tomorrow, when we can no more predict tomorrow than we can the weather. Procrastination is the thief of dreams. -- Richard Paul Evans
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The main factors that sponsor the abuse of time include procrastination and excuses. Procrastination makes you to shift a task that you can do now into the unseen future; excuses are the reasons why you shift that task. -- Israelmore Ayivor
Procrastination most often arises from a sense that there is too much to do, and hence no single aspect of the to-do worth doing. . . . Underneath this rather antic form of action-as-inaction is the much more unsettling question whether anything is worth doing at all. -- Mark Kingwell
Procrastination is something you do yourself. You know: "I gotta sharpen these pencils before I start. I got 20 pencils, they're looking kinda dull." Well, the pencils aren't calling you and alluring you and inviting you and offering you anything. They're just sitting there. You're the one who's procrastinating. -- Michael Chabon
Don't wait. The time will never be just right. -- Napoleon Hill
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today. -- Benjamin Franklin
If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done. -- Rita Mae Brown
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today. -- Abraham Lincoln
The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. -- Walt Disney
Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves. -- Dale Carnegie
You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. -- Benjamin Franklin
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task. -- William James
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. -- Pablo Picasso
If you put off everything till you're sure of it, you'll never get anything done. -- Norman Vincent Peale
We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate. -- Erica Jong
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it. -- Quintilian
I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. -- Jerome K. Jerome
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle. -- Abraham Lincoln
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. -- Benjamin Franklin
A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times. -- Lord Acton
Don't put off for tomorrow what you can do today because if you enjoy it today, you can do it again tomorrow. -- James A. Michener
I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work. -- Pearl S. Buck
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable. -- Sydney J. Harris
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
Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows. -- Pope Paul VI
I have an advanced degree in procrastination and another one in paranoia. -- Joanne Harris
My biggest regret could be summed up in one word, and that's procrastination. -- Ron Cooper
I swing between procrastination and being really thorough so either way things aren't getting done quickly. -- Freema Agyeman
Imagination only comes when you privilege the subconscious, when you make delay and procrastination work for you. -- Hilary Mantel
I'd be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I'd been given. I'd be more frightened by procrastination and laziness. -- Denzel Washington
There's nothing wrong with procrastination. Or is there? I'll leave it to you to decide, but only if you have the time. -- Craig Brown
My life is a monument to procrastination, to the art of putting things off until later, or much later, or possibly never. -- Craig Brown
I think of myself as something of a connoisseur of procrastination, creative and dogged in my approach to not getting things done. -- Susan Orlean
Prudence is not hesitation, procrastination, or moderation. It is not driving in the middle of the road. It is not the way of ambivalence, indecision, or safety. -- John Ortberg
Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. -- Lord Chesterfield
Nothing separates the generations more than music. 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. -- Bill Cosby
If you want to be certain, you should never get married. You should never change jobs. In fact, you might as well just stay home. Because I don't know anybody who is certain. That need to be certain is just procrastination. -- Mark Burnett
One of the great challenges of our age, in which the tools of our productivity are also the tools of our leisure, is to figure out how to make more useful those moments of procrastination when we're idling in front of our computer screens. -- Joshua Foer
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
I, for one, find writing excruciating. Some mornings, as I'm on my way to my desk, my hands actually tremble with fear. The fear, of course, is that I'll sit down at the desk and discover that what I've written is claptrap. Fear inevitably leads to procrastination. -- Rosemary Mahoney
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
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
Nothing so perilous as procrastination -- John Lyly
Action will destroy your procrastination. -- Og Mandino
Perfectionism is the mother of procrastination. -- Michael Hyatt
This is a pie chart about procrastination. -- Demetri Martin
The scholar's greatest weakness: calling procrastination research. -- Stephen King
Don't let your want for perfection become procrastination -- Danielle LaPorte
Reluctance to begin is quick to befriend procrastination. . . . -- Kate Morton
Don't let perfection become procrastination . Do it now. -- Danielle LaPorte
When it comes to death, procrastination is encouraged. -- D.E. Navarro
Do not call procrastination laziness. Call it fear. -- Julia Cameron
I have a funny process : itâ??s called procrastination. -- K. K. Barrett
Drug use and procrastination often go hand in tourniquet. -- Will Self
Did I become court composer through masterful procrastination? Hardly! -- Rachel Hartman
Doesn't reincarnation strike you as just another form of procrastination? -- Chuck Palahniuk
Working is one of the most dangerous forms of procrastination. -- Gretchen Rubin
The best way to deal with procrastination is to postpone it. -- Tony Robbins
The momentum of continuous action fuels motivation, while procrastination kills motivation. -- Steve Pavlina
Vagueness and procrastination are ever a comfort to the frail in spirit. -- John Updike
If procrastination were a marketable skill, I'd be a real hot commodity. -- Dov Davidoff
In the conduct of almost every affair slowness and procrastination are hateful -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
There is sometimes only a very fine line between deliberation and procrastination. -- Paul Allen Walker

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