Did I become court composer through masterful procrastination? Hardly!

Inside” ChildrenInside each of us are the children we were at each developmental stage. With regard to our creative dreams, these inside children can prevent us from living them by “acting out” in order to...

The scholar’s greatest weakness: calling procrastination research.

One of the very worst uses of time is to do something very well that need not to be done at all.

It is always easier to edit what has been written than to write what has not been done.

When faced with two equally tough choices, most people choose the third choice: to not choose.

Get back to work, he would tell himself sternly. There’s a garuda to get airborne.

I can’t think about that right now. If I do, I’ll go crazy. I’ll think about that tomorrow.

Today and tomorrow is an illusion, days are all joined together, and if you are waiting for your time, you are wasting your time.

How to stop procrastinating starts with believing you can overcome procrastination.

Imagine what your life would be like if you were completely uninhibited by fear, pride, or procrastination. What would you be capable of? Anything.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.

It’s time to stop following your dreams and time to start chasing them!

True blessing comes in the dress of sweats, never delaying to wave bye to the excuses and procrastination. True blessing lies in hard work!

However, Nick acted as much as possible under the circumstances, and that was rectifying — it brought with it enjoyment and a working faith. He had not gone counter to the axiom that in a...

I’m a big believer in putting things off, In fact, I even put off procrastinating.-Ella Varner

A year from now you may wish you had started today.

Why Dream?Life is a difficult assignment. We are fragile creatures, expected to function at high rates of speed, and asked to accomplish great and small things each day. These daily activities take enormous amounts of...

You guys like to tell jokes and giggle and kid around, huh? Giggling like a bunch of young broads in a school yard. Well, let me tell you a joke: Five guys sitting in a...

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

When we procrastinate, we also put a hold on happiness.

But indefinite visions of ambition are weak against the ease of doing what is habitual or beguilingly agreeable; and we all know the difficulty of carrying out a resolve when we secretly long that it...

Take excuses and procrastination as your enemies. Let them see you and frown their faces and bypass you without greetings. You will excel if you don’t internalize the habit of giving excuses.

With age, gone are the forevers of youth. Gone is the willingness to procrastinate, delay, to play the waiting game. Now each day is a treasure beyond compare . . . because there are so...

Had I been less firmly resolved upon settling down definitively to work, I should perhaps have made an effort to begin at once. But since my resolution was explicit, since within twenty-four hours, in the...

I wake up every morning thinking about all the great things I am going to accomplish that day, and I go to bed every night thinking about all the even greater things I’m going to...

I’d sit at my kitchen table and start scanning help-wanted ads on my laptop, but then a browser tab would blink and I’d get distracted and follow a link to a long magazine article about...

The best of your life could be the rest of your life, if you decide it will be so.

Perfection’ is man’s ultimate illusion. It simply doesn’t exist in the universe…. If you are a perfectionist, you are guaranteed to be a loser in whatever you do.

Don’t be lazy. Hard work brings happiness. There is no other time to avoid being a lazy. Take that decision now. Kick laziness out.

Procrastination and excuses really have the energy to make your picture small and blurred if you offer them that image!

Have more than one idea on the go at any one time. If it’s a choice between writing a book and doing nothing I will always choose the latter. It’s only if I have an...

My mother always told me I wouldn’t amount to anything because I procrastinate. I said, ‘Just wait.

A credit card allows you transcend time. For it allows you to put off until tomorrow what you bought today, while you are still paying what you bought yesterday.

Procrastination is opportunity’s natural assassin.

Life always begins with one step outside of your comfort zone.

My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.

If you get stuck, get away from your desk. Take a walk, take a bath, go to sleep, make a pie, draw, listen to ­music, meditate, exercise; whatever you do, don’t just stick there scowling...

Nobody can stop me. But only because I haven’t started yet.

We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.

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...

If the mass of people hesitate to act, strike with swiftly and with boldness, the brave heart that understands and seizes opportunity can everything.

A Gift for YouI send you…The gift of a letter from your wise self. This is the part of you that sees you with benevolent, loving eyes. You find this letter in a thick envelope...

I see that I’ve become a really bad correspondent. It’s not that I don’t think of you. You come into my thoughts often. But when you do it appears to me that I owe you...

Tomorrow is like infinity,it doesn’t really exist.

Tomorrow is red with the blood of murdered resolutions.

But with regard to critical occasions, it often happens that all moments seem comfortably remote until the last.

Starting tomorrow, I will stop procrastinating. Or, of I’m too busy putting things off, I’ll start the following day.

It is better to act too quickly than it is to wait too long.