procrastination Quotes

“My advice is, never do to-morrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time. Collar him!”

“So many old and lovely things are stored in the world’s attic because we don’t want them around us and we don’t dare throw them out.”

“Indecision and procrastination are twin brothers. Where one is found, the other may usually be found also.”

“And this I did for seven long nights—every night just at midnight—but I found the eye always closed; and so it was impossible to do the work; for it was not the old man who vexed me, but his Evil Eye.”

″ A competent general always draws up his battle plan before engaging the enemy; he doesn’t postpone basic decisions until the firing starts. But he is also prepared to change his plans if necessary to cope with an unexpected turn of events. So be ready to implement your plans as the day’s battle against the clock begins.”

“Sometimes, there is no harm in putting off a piece of work until another day.”

″...anything is sweeter than the work you ought to do...”

“Few understand that procrastination is our natural defense, letting things take care of themselves and exercise their antifragility; it results from some ecological or naturalistic wisdom, and is not always bad -- at an existential level, it is my body rebelling against its entrapment. It is my soul fighting the Procrustean bed of modernity.”