Seeing as I've had such a problem with it lately, I thought I would look up the insightful or funny quotes that people have said about it.
Dedicated to my friend Marissa.
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Often, greater risk is involved in postponement than in making a wrong decision.
-Harry A. Hopf
"One of these days" is none of these days.
Never put off till tomorrow what can be done today.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
-Edward Young
Putting off an easy thing makes it hard, and putting off a hard one makes it impossible.
-George H. Lorimer
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
-William James
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
-Don Marquis
Every duty which is bidden to wait returns with seven fresh duties at its back.
-Charles Kingsley
If it weren’t for the last minute, I wouldn’t get anything done.
-Unknown
Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn’t the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment.
-Robert Benchley
There are a million ways to lose a workday, but not even a single way to get one back.
-Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister
One of the greatest labor saving inventions of today is tomorrow.
-Vincent T. Foss
You may delay, but time will not.
-Benjamin Franklin
It is an undoubted truth, that the less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.
-Earl of
To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.
-Eva Young
Don’t fool yourself that important things can be put off till tomorrow; they can be put off forever, or not at all.
-Mignon McLaughlin
Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.
-C. Northcote Parkinson, 1958
Procrastination is opportunity’s assassin.
-Victor Kiam
If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.
-Olin Miller
More quotes available at http://www.quotegarden.com/procrastination.html
I’d write them, but I have a couple other things that I should have done yesterday. ^_^
3 comments:
Yeah. So I often find myself in the same boat as you. So when I read over all these quotes, I thought it was pretty funny exactly how many of these exact thoughts have gone through my head in the past. By the way, never mind, I'll finish this later....
Well I have to say that procrastination is a huge problem of mine. I often find myself saying things like "I can do it later" or "I'll just wait until tomorrow". And I have also found myself thinking of many of the quotes that you mentioned in your post. However, I know that I can't be alone in this. Being surrounded by 40,000 other students, there have to be many that also procrastinate...
This is probably the best blog ever! I think all of us can relate to any number of these quotes you posted. Thanks for the simple, yet very clever post, and the way you ended it was very clever, and pretty funny.
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