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Faith in to-morrow, instead of Christ, is Satan's nurse for man's perdition.
Sep 10, 2025
For Yesterday was once To-morrow.
If and perhaps.... The language of procrastination and uncertainty. That's just people looking to justify their own lack of action.
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.
Your 'frog' should be the most difficult item on your things-to-do list, the one where you're most likely to procrastinate; because, if you eat that first, it'll give you energy and momentum for the rest of the day.
To procrastinate seems inherent in man, for if you do to-day that you may enjoy to-morrow it is but deferring the enjoyment; so that to be idle or industrious, vicious or virtuous, is but with a view of procrastinating the one or the other.
Nothing says work efficiency like panic mode.
Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.
He who puts off nothing till tomorrow has done a great deal.
Today's greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.
I think the worst and most insidious procrastination for me is research. I will be looking for some bit of fact or figure to include in the novel, and before I know, I've wasted an entire morning delving into that subject matter without a word written.
There is sometimes only a very fine line between deliberation and procrastination.
Deliberando saepe perit occasio [The opportunity often slips away while we deliberate on it].
If I had to sum up in a word what makes a good manager, I'd say decisiveness. You can use the fanciest computers to gather the numbers, but in the end you have to set a timetable and act.
A lobster, when left high and dry among the rock, does not have the sense enough to work his way back to the sea, but waits for the sea to come to him. If it does not come, he remains where he is and dies, although the slightest effort would enable him to reach the waves, which are perhaps within a yard of him. The world is full of human lobsters; people stranded on the rocks of indecision and procrastination, who, instead of putting forth their own energies, are waiting for some grand billow of good fortune to set them afloat.
Go ahead and do things, the bigger the better, if your fundamentals are sound. Avoid procrastination. Do not quibble for an hour over things that might be decided in minutes. However, if the issue at stake is large, stay as long as the next man, but go ahead and do things.
My mother always told me I wouldn't amount to anything because I procrastinate. I said, "Just wait."
Don't wait for extraordinary circumstance to do good; try to use ordinary situations.
Early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese. Early bird gets the worm, but the second worm gets to live. Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy.
One of the great challenges of our age, in which the tools of our productivity are also the tools of our leisure, is to figure out how to make more useful those moments of procrastination when we're idling in front of our computer screens.
Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things.
Procrastination is the grave in which opportunity is buried.
Tomorrow, the busiest day of the week. I'm a big believer in putting things off, In fact, I even put off procrastinating.
All things come to those who wait.
We must be diligent today. To wait until tomorrow is too late. Death comes unexpectedly. How can we bargain with it?
The best thing you can do is follow your dreams
I manage my time by prioritizing tasks, working smarter not harder, and by avoiding procrastination.
Many writers-in-waiting spend a lot of time avoiding the work at hand. The most common way to avoid writing is by procrastination. This is the writer's greatest enemy. There is little to say about it except that once you decide to write every day, you must make yourself sit at the desk or table for the required period whether or not you are putting down words. Make yourself take the time even if the hours seem fruitless. Ideally, after a few days or weeks of being chained to the desk, you will submit to the story that must be told.
Academics, who work for long periods in a self-directed fashion, may be especially prone to putting things off: surveys suggest that the vast majority of college students procrastinate, and articles in the literature of procrastination often allude to the author's own problems with finishing the piece.
The era of procrastination...is coming to a close...we are entering a period of consequences - Winston Churchill (warning about the danger of appeasement
The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences.
If you ask me, reincarnation is just another way to procrastinate.
Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes in a day.
No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire today.
As a writer, I need an enormous amount of time alone. Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box, watching infomercials. It's a matter of doing everything you can to avoid writing, until it is about four in the morning and you reach the point where you have to write. Having anybody watching that or attempting to share it with me would be grisly.
Procrastination is something you do yourself. You know: "I gotta sharpen these pencils before I start. I got 20 pencils, they're looking kinda dull." Well, the pencils aren't calling you and alluring you and inviting you and offering you anything. They're just sitting there. You're the one who's procrastinating.
Death will be so quick to swoop on you; Gather merit till that moment comes! Wait till then to banish laziness? Then there'll be no time, what will you do? "This I have not done. And this I'm only starting. And this - I'm only halfway through ..." Then is the sudden coming of the Lord of Death, And oh, the thought 'Alas, I'm finished.'
Turning pro is a mindset. If we are struggling with fear, self-sabotage, procrastination, self-doubt, etc., the problem is, we’re thinking like amateurs. Amateurs don’t show up. Amateurs crap out. Amateurs let adversity defeat them. The pro thinks differently. He shows up, he does his work, he keeps on truckin’, no matter what.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Addiction, self-sabotage, procrastination, laziness, rage, chronic fatigue, and depression are all ways that we withhold our full participation in the program of life we are offered. When the conscious mind cannot find a reason to say no, the unconscious says no in its own way.
Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect.
If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.
Weak people talk and do not act, strong people act and keep quiet.
The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult
The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
You must master the habit of procrastination and eliminate it from your wake-up. This habit of putting off until tomorrow that which you should have done last week or last year or a score of years ago is gnawing at the very vitals of your being and you can accomplish nothing until you throw it off.
I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.
You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.