Procrastinator Quotes

I've always been a procrastinator.

I'm really not one of these procrastinators who cleans the house in order to put off writing, but life gets in the way.

In high school, I was the biggest procrastinator in the world.

The procrastinator is not only indolent and weak, but commonly, false, too; most of the weak are false.

A procrastinators willpower lies in the fact that he keeps work pending because he strongly feels he wants to do the same – keep it pending.

My friend Winnie is a procrastinator. He didn't get his birth mark til he was eight years old.

A procrastinator is a thief of his or her own time.

The essence is that many procrastinators are "structured procrastinators," people who, like me, get a lot done as a way of not working on what they should ideally be working on.

I was surprised by how many people think of themselves as procrastinators, but, like me, seem to get a lot done anyway.

I am a great procrastinator. When the writing is going really well, the laundry piles up.

It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

I never put off till tomorrow what I can do the day after.

The problem is I am both a procrastinator and a power junkie, so I am very frustrating to work with.

Over the years, I developed a theory about why writers are such procrastinators: We were too good in English class. This sounds crazy, but hear me out.

You made delay, but time will not, and lost time is never found again.

Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends.

The fantasy of doing a task perfectly is common with procrastinators; they set the bar for success very high. Then they are afraid to approach it. As the deadline approaches, they must set the bar lower.

Nothing focuses attention like a real deadline. If you are in a field where life and death, or having a job or not having a job, depends on not missing deadlines, you need to learn to manipulate yourself to meet them; often a good way of doing this is teaming up with non-procrastinators.

Someday is not a day of the week.

Lack of confidence, sometimes alternating with unrealistic dreams of heroic success, often leads to procrastination, and many studies suggest that procrastinators are self-handicappers: rather than risk failure, they prefer to create conditions that make success impossible, a reflex that of course creates a vicious cycle.

As a survival-happy species, our successes are calculated in the number of years we have extended our lives, with the reduction of suffering being only incidental to this aim. To stay alive under almost any circumstances is a sickness with us. Nothing could be more unhealthy than to “watch one’s health” as a means of stalling death. The lengths we will go as procrastinators of that last gasp only demonstrate a morbid dread of that event. By contrast, our fear of suffering is deficient.

I think of myself as something of a connoisseur of procrastination, creative and dogged in my approach to not getting things done.

Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.

I had a terrible fight with my wife on New Year's Eve. She called me a procrastinator. So I finished addressing the Christmas cards and left.

I wonder if I would have been capable of producing anything if I worked in a more conventional way with a prewritten script, because I'm of the procrastinator class.

Procrastination is like a credit card: it's a lot of fun until you get the bill.

Lost time is never found again.

While procrastinating is not a flaw, being a structured procrastinator is actually one way of being pretty productive.

I'm a procrastinator. That's a pretty bad habit.

You may delay, but time will not.

Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

I ... practiced all the arts of apology, evasion, and invisibility, to which procrastinators must sooner or later be reduced.

I'm a terrible procrastinator. When we go to the airport, if they're not literally closing the door behind my sweaty, hyperventilating body, I feel I've been there too long.

Kools and Newports were for black people and lower-class whites. Camels were for procrastinators, those who wrote bad poetry, and those who put off writing bad poetry. Merits were for sex addicts, Salems were for alcoholics, and Mores were for people who considered themselves to be outrageous but really weren't.

The Procrastinator has the opposite problem. He can’t selectively focus his attention and might endure frequent accusations about his laziness. In truth, he’s so distracted by stimuli that he can’t figure out where or how to get started. Sounds, smells, sights and the random wanderings of his thoughts continually vie for his attention.

Dear Procrastinator: Taking action in and of itself is not difficult, but is in fact satisfying and is usually followed by a sense of pride & accomplishment. However, it is THINKING about the action that you should be taking and NOT taking it that's difficult, as it leaves you feeling guilty and unsatisfied. THE SOLUTION: Stop thinking and take action NOW.

Identify the problem.”) I love the late Japanese psychotherapist Shoma Morita's advice to stop trying to fix yourself and start living instead: “Give up on yourself. Begin taking action now, while being neurotic or imperfect, or a procrastinator, or unhealthy, or lazy, or any other label by which you inaccurately describe yourself. Go ahead and be the best imperfect person you can be and get started on those things you want to accomplish before you die.