You appear to me not to have understood the nature of my body & mind. Partly from ill-health, & partly from an unhealthy & reverie-like vividness of Thoughts, & (pardon the pedantry of the phrase)...

Manana is often the busiest day of the week.

Uno de los primeros recursos propios del escritor profesional que Isabella había aprendido de mí era el arte y la práctica de procrastinar. Todo veterano del oficio sabe que cualquier ocupación, desde afilar el lápiz...

A man never lies with more delicious languor under the influence of a passion than when he has persuaded himself that he shall subdue it to-morrow.

If you really want succeed in what you do, obey this rule;… Wake up very early, go to bed lately… Occupy your time usefully!

This idea comes to you, you can see it, but to accomplish it you need what I call a “setup.” For example, you may need a working shop or a working painting studio. You may...

Sometimes”, said Miss Phillips, “the thing you dread doing the very thing you should do, just so you can stop thinking about it.

Procrastination is the foundation of all disasters.

Don’t ask for directions if you’re not going to start the car.

Both positive and negative thinking are contagious.

The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.

Think of the most discouraging thing that you are currently carrying or the biggest project you can’t seem to tackle. Forget about how it happened, forget about how you got there, just look at the...

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...

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday

Absolutely not. I’m an expert in procrastination, but the last thing I want you to think is that I’m incompetent, too. Because I’m actually pretty good at what I do.” -Jo

At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself: ‘I have to go to work—as a human being. What do I have to complain of, if I’m going to do what I...

The most pernicious aspect of procrastination is that it can become a habit. We don’t just put off our lives today; we put them off till our deathbed.Never forget: This very moment, we can change...

Procrastination threatens to rob us of those things that are most important in our lives.

Procrastination is failing to get on with life itself.

My advice is, never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time. Collar him!

One very important key to maintaining our daily sanity is a simple scheduling tactic I call Putting Things the Hell Off.

I always never leave things for the last minute. I leave them for 59 seconds.

Consistency with the right strategic plan is the ultimate key to success. Yesterday’s action would never make up for today’s procrastination.

Do you write every day?’ ‘Oh, no. Oh, I sort of try. I don’t work very hard, really. Really I’m on vacation. All the time. Or you could say I work all the time, too....

The more you hesitate to do an important task, the more urgent it becomes.

Create a guidebook of creative dreamsYou can use a blank book or just blank paper clipped together. Put photographs or scraps from magazines in that represent your creative dreams. Draw, scribble, or paint in between...

Math test tomorrow.Check.Complete lack of preparation for test.Check.

The scary thing is, the more I slack off, the more it piles up and the more it piles up, the more I slack off.

Every duty that is bidden to wait comes back with seven fresh duties at its back.

All you have is today. Never mourn for tomorrow that is past and gone. You don’t deserve to starve today of its pleasure and treasure. Feel happy!

I want you to learn right at the outset not to play with the spoon before you take the medicine. Putting off an easy thing makes it hard, and putting off a hard one makes...

With no sums to keep his conscience at bay, the black book loomed large, creeping into his line of sight.He scanned the room for something else to do. The harness still needed work. And he’d...

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...

Procrastination is the best action against putting an ankle bracelet

Is there anything you have been putting off until another day? How about today?

Habitual procrastinators will readily testify to all the lost opportunities, missed deadlines, failed relationships and even monetary losses incurred just because of one nasty habit of putting things off until it is often too late.

You may delay, but time will not.

Improvement is always on the schedule for tomorrow. Change is always taking place some time in the future. It’s human nature.

Excuses will not take you far, they will take you out. The success of your many excuses doesn’t mean you will run away from the work. It means the work will run away from you!

In a personalized world, important but complex or unpleasant issues are less likely to come to our attention at all.

Whatever actions you take, keep in mind that over the course of life, you will fail far more from timidity, procrastination, and carefulness than you will from just stepping up to the plate and, as...

Somedays you’re the cue ball, somedays you are the eight ball

Mr Mowett,’ called Stephen in the pause while the table was clearing to make room for the pudding, and pudding-wine—in this case Frontignan and Canary—was handing about, ‘you were telling me about your publishers.’ ‘Yes,...

Sadly, retirement planning, in many circumstances, has become nothing more than planned procrastination.

You are only earning the life you get when your inaction allows people to decide for you.

You always have time for the things you put first.

Even hell will give you an incentive not to reach for heaven.

Whenever I schedule an appointment, my general rule of thumb is, tomorrow is better than yesterday.

Procrastination is my sin. It brings me naught but sorrow. I know that I should stop it. In fact, I will–tomorrow

It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.