Avoid Procrastination Quotes

#1. 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.

John J. Raskob

#2. Jupiter is so big and its gravitational pull so strong that man would find it difficult to move about on the surface. The answer is to whittle it down to proper size with terrajets and nuclear power, using the debris to increase the size of Jupiter's moons so they, too, can be colonized.

Fritz Zwicky

#3. The artistic side of our family was very important because one person encourages the other. It was a vey enlightening place to be as a kid because of all the music and dancing, and my dad played banjo; my sisters played piano and sang.

Dave Davies

#4. Sure, there were a few more duct-taped tears in the vinyl seats, a few new dings in the fiberglass surfboards lining the walls, but the bacon was still crisp and pancakes were available twenty-four hours a day, the way the good Lord intended.

Rob Thomas

#5. During that year Scarlett had been so busy, had experienced such changes in her life, that she'd been able to block out the pain he had caused her. Now it tore her heart, and with the pain was a deep fear of Rhett's unpredictable power. She transformed them into rage. Rage was strengthening.

Alexandra Ripley

#6. Don't be lazy. Hard work brings happiness. There is no other time to avoid being a lazy. Take that decision now. Kick laziness out.

Israelmore Ayivor

#7. I think there is a real value in an editorial point-of-view and in editorial curation, and in putting together an entire narrative around a set of topics is important.

Michael Wolf

#8. Life is complicated until complications don't grace it amid amenable aura.

Akshmala Sharma

#9. Leadership, pure and simple, is the assumption of responsibility for the pursuit of excellence in group life.

Philip Selznick

#10. The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.

Alan Dean Foster

#11. The spot paintings, the spin paintings, they're all a mechanical way to avoid the actual guy in a room, myself, with a blank canvas.

Damien Hirst

#12. it. If you find yourself asking yourself (and your friends), "Am I really a writer? Am I really an artist?" chances are you are.

Steven Pressfield

#13. Such was the past, after all: it left the present cluttered with objects the survivors were immune to.

Chris Cleave

#14. For every rule there is always an exception: this too can be depended upon.

Margaret Atwood

#15. All this time I lived with my parents, and wrought on the plantation; and having had schooling pretty well for a planter, I used to improve myself in winter evenings, and other leisure times.

John Woolman

#16. There is no failure in the spiritual life, as long as we do not give up the fight.

Swami Prabhavananda

#17. The best sun we have is made of Newcastle coal, and I am determined never to reckon upon any other.

Horace Walpole

#18. Peace will come
With tranquility and splendor on the wheels of fire
But will bring us no reward when her false idols fall..

Bob Dylan

#19. You can put off your dreams, your desires, your careers, your farms. You can avoid your responsibilities, obligations, promises, and sovereign rights. But any person who wants to make music, and doesn't, is a goddamned fool.

Jenna Woginrich

#20. 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.

Paul Rudnick