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Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.
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micawber
procrastination
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Charles Dickens |
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I'll think of it tomorrow, at Tara. I can stand it then. Tomorrow, I'll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day.
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inspirational
procrastination
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Margaret Mitchell |
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A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.
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calvin
calvin-and-hobbes
procrastination
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Bill Watterson |
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Your Life Is Happening Right Now: Don't let procrastination take over your life. Be brave and take risks. Your life is happening right now.
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courage
inspiration
inspirational-attitude
inspirational-life
inspirational-quotes
inspire
life-and-living
life-quotes
living
optimistic
positive-affirmation
positive-life
inspiring
positive
positive-thinking
life-lessons
optimism
life
inspirational
take-risks
brave
procrastination
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Roy T. Bennett |
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I'm a big believer in putting things off, In fact, I even put off procrastinating. -Ella Varner
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humor
jack-travis
procrastination
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Lisa Kleypas |
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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judgement
procrastination
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Erica Jong |
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The scholar's greatest weakness: calling procrastination research.
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procrastination
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Stephen King |
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It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don't mind hard work where there is no definite object of any kind. -Algernon
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procrastination
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Oscar Wilde |
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"If you believe you can accomplish everything by "cramming" at the eleventh hour, by all means, don't lift a finger now. But you may think twice about beginning to build your ark once it has already started raining"
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zombie
procrastination
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Max Brooks |
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Do something instead of killing time. Because time is killing you.
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time
activity
carpe-diem
procrastination
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Paulo Coelho |
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Hesitation of any kind is a sign of mental decay in the young, of physical weakness in the old.
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procrastination
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Oscar Wilde |
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One of the very worst uses of time is to do something very well that need not to be done at all.
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procrastinating
procrastinator
time-management
wasting-time
time-passing
procrastination
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Brian Tracy |
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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 our lives. There never was a moment, and never will be, when we are without the power to alter our destiny. This second we can turn the tables on Resistance. This second, we can sit down and do our work.
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resistance
procrastination
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Steven Pressfield |
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A Gift for You I send you... A cottage retreat on a hill in Ireland. This cottage is filled with fresh flowers, art supplies, and a double-wide chaise lounge in front of a wood-burning fireplace. There is a cabinet near the front door, where your favorite meals appear, several times a day. Desserts are plentiful and calorie free. The closet is stocked with colorful robes and pajamas, and a painting in the bedroom slides aside to reveal a plasma television screen with every movie you've ever wanted to watch. A wooden mailbox at the end of the lane is filled daily with beguiling invitations to tea parties, horse-and-carriage rides, theatrical performances, and violin concerts. There is no obligation or need to respond. You sleep deeply and peacefully each night, and feel profoundly healthy. This cottage is yours to return to at any time.
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writing
dreaming
procrastination
creativity
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Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy (SARK) |
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That glorious vision of doing good is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds.
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procrastination
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Charles Dickens |
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The funny thing about my procrastination was that I was almost done with the screenplay. I was like a person who had fought dragons and lost limbs and crawled through swamps and now, finally, the castle was visible. I could see tiny children waving flags on the balcony; all I had to do was walk across a field to get to them. But all of a sudden I was very, very sleepy. And the children couldn't believe their eyes as I folded down to my knees and fell to the ground face-first, with my eyes open. Motionless, I watched ants hurry in and out of a hole and I knew that standing up again would be a thousand times harder than the dragon or the swamp and so I did not even try. I just clicked on one thing after another after another.
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procrastination
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Miranda July |
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We have a task before us which must be speedily performed. We know that it will be ruinous to make delay. The most important crisis of our life calls, trumpet-tongued, for immediate energy and action. We glow, we are consumed with eagerness to commence the work, with the anticipation of whose glorious result our whole souls are on fire. It must, it shall be undertaken to-day, and yet we put it off until to-morrow; and why? There is no answer, except that we feel , using the word with no comprehension of the principle. To-morrow arrives, and with it a more impatient anxiety to do our duty, but with this very increase of anxiety arrives, also, a nameless, a positively fearful, because unfathomable, craving for delay. This craving gathers strength as the moments fly. The last hour for action is at hand. We tremble with the violence of the conflict within us, -- of the definite with the indefinite -- of the substance with the shadow. But, if the contest have proceeded thus far, it is the shadow which prevails, -- we struggle in vain. The clock strikes, and is the knell of our welfare. At the same time, it is the chanticleer-note to the ghost that has so long overawed us. It flies -- it disappears -- we are free. The old energy returns. We will labor . Alas, it is !
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work
perversity
procrastination
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Edgar Allan Poe |
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He saw it for the first time: on the day he died he would be wearing unmatching socks, there would be unanswered e-mails, and in the hovel he called home there would still be shirts missing cuff buttons, a malfunctioning light in the hall, and unpaid bills, uncleared attics, dead flies, friends waiting for a reply and lovers he had not owned up to.
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resignation
procrastination
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Ian McEwan |
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Put it off for a bit. All life is putting off. Well, not entirely.
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procrastination
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Anthony Burgess |
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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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procrastination
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Sinclair Lewis |
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During the act of making something, I experience a kind of blissful absence of the self and a loss of time. When I am done, I return to both feeling as restored as if I had been on a trip. I almost never get this feeling any other way. I once spent sixteen hours making 150 wedding invitations by hand and was not for one instance of that time tempted to eat or look at my watch. By contrast, if seated at the computer, I check my email conservatively 30,000 times a day. When I am writing, I must have a snack, call a friend, or abuse myself every ten minutes. I used to think that this was nothing more than the difference between those things we do for love and those we do for money. But that can't be the whole story. I didn't always write for a living, and even back when it was my most fondly held dream to one day be able to do so, writing was always difficult. Writing is like pulling teeth. From my dick.
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writer
writing
humor
procrastination
artist
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David Rakoff |
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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.
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self-discipline
procrastination
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George Eliot |
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En los momentos mas terribles de la vida solemos caer en una suerte de irresponsabilidad protectora y en vez de pensar en lo que nos ocurre dirigimos la atencion a trivialidades.
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life
irresponsibility
procrastination
trauma
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Adolfo Bioy Casares |
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No task is a long one but the task on which one dare not start. It becomes a nightmare.
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procrastination
nightmare
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Charles Baudelaire |
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Delay is as dangerous as the wrong answer.
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leadership
hesitation
distraction
procrastination
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Frank Herbert |
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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, sir: I was about to say that they were the most hellish procrastinators--' 'Oh how dreadful,' cried Fanny. 'Do they go to--to special houses, or do they ...' 'He means they delay,' said Babbington. 'Oh.
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procrastination
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Patrick O'Brian |
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the problem with reading off a screen isn't resolution, eyestrain, or compatibility with reading in the bathtub: it's that computers are seductive, they tempt us to do other things, making concentrating on a long-form work impractical.
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e-books
distraction
procrastination
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Cory Doctorow |
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Along with voting, jury duty, and paying taxes, goofing off is one of the central obligations of American citizenship. So when my friends Joel and Stephen and I play hooky from our jobs in the middle of the afternoon to play Pop-A-Shot in a room full of children, I like to think we are not procrastinators; we are patriots pursuing happiness.
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humor
goofing-off
patriotism
procrastination
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Sarah Vowell |
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"As soon as (Teddy Roosevelt) received an assignment for a paper or project, he would set to work, never leaving anything to the last minute. Prepared so far ahead "freed his mind" from worry and facilitated fresh, lucid thought."
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education
discipleship
maturation
procrastination
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Doris Kearns Goodwin |
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To procrastinate obedience is to disobey God.
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tithing
stewardship
discipline
procrastination
obedience
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Randy Alcorn |
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Just because we're doesn't mean we're being productive. Working is one of the most dangerous forms of procrastination.
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working
procrastination
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Gretchen Rubin |