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Once a job it has begun, do not stop until it's done. Whether it is big or small, do it well or not all.
Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
We need to give thought, but we also need to take action. You need to dream without just being a dreamer.
Stop putting it off! Procrastination breeds guilt, guilt breeds depression, and depression breeds failure.
God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.
Procrastination is not Laziness", I tell him. "It is fear. Call it by its right name, and forgive yourself.
Inaction that results from indulgence is Procrastination. Inaction that results from intention is Patience.
I swing between procrastination and being really thorough so either way things aren't getting done quickly.
Procrastination is your body telling you you need to back off a bit and think more about what you are doing.
I have spent many days stringing and unstringing my instrument while the song I came to sing remains unsung.
Don't put off for tomorrow what you can do today because if you enjoy it today, you can do it again tomorrow.
Fear stops a lot of people. Fear of failure, of the unknown, of risk. And it masks itself as procrastination.
How do you gag the voice in your head that says, 'You don't have to [do it] today. There's always tomorrow.'?
People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now.
Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.
Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box, watching infomercials.
Where duty is plain delay is both foolish and hazardous; where it is not, delay may be both wisdom and safety.
Procrastination in the beginning and precipitation towards the conclusion is the characteristic of such bodies.
The best cure for procrastination is to have so much on your plate that procrastination is no longer an option.
I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.
A good procrastination should feel like you're inserting lots and lots of commas into the sentence of your life.
Imagination only comes when you privilege the subconscious, when you make delay and procrastination work for you.
Perfectionism is not as much the desire for excellence, as it is the fear of failure couched in procrastination .
Procrastination gives you time to consider divergent ideas, to think in nonlinear ways, to make unexpected leaps.
Is not he imprudent, who, seeing the tide making haste towards him apace, will sleep till the sea overwhelms him?
Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes in a day.
Eventually, time takes care of everything. The trouble with procrastination is that people give up on it too soon.
Don't fool yourself that important things can be put off till tomorrow; they can be put off forever, or not at all
The interesting thing about procrastination is that is has more to do with what we fail to do than with what we do.
I have a problem with procrastination. I have a great deal of difficulty deciding what to wear. It's a woman thing.
We must be diligent today. To wait until tomorrow is too late. Death comes unexpectedly. How can we bargain with it?
Photo of boy with white dirt on his faceYou may be on the right track, but if you just sit there you'll get run over.
half the good intentions of my life have been frustrated by my unfortunate habit of putting things off till to-morrow.
I've been looking over the list of spring chores I made up last fall, and darned if they aren't fall chores, after all.
Dare to begin! He who postpones living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.
There's nothing wrong with procrastination. Or is there? I'll leave it to you to decide, but only if you have the time.
No age or time of life, no position or circumstance, has a monopoly on success. Any age is the right age to start doing!
The real difference between those who want to write and those that do, is that those that do get up every day and do it.
You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood. What mood is that? Last-minute panic.
If you don't pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves.
My life is a monument to procrastination, to the art of putting things off until later, or much later, or possibly never.
Be wise today; 'tis madness to defer. Next day the fatal precedent will plead; thus on, til wisdom is pushed our of life.
I've never been a fan of pretense or procrastination. After all, our state is defined by its independent, outspoken spirit.
If you procrastinate when faced with a big difficult problem... break the problem into parts, and handle one part at a time.
the obligation to express gratitude deepens with procrastination. The longer you wait, the more effusive must be the thanks.
I ... practiced all the arts of apology, evasion, and invisibility, to which procrastinators must sooner or later be reduced.
One of greatest thieves this world has is procrastination, and he is still at large. Are we aiding and abetting the criminal?
I'd be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I'd been given. I'd be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.
One of the most serious human defects in all ages is procrastination, an unwillingness to accept personal responsibilities now.
Indulge in procrastination, and in time yon will come to this, that because a thing ought to be done, therefore you can't do it.