Quotes About Not Procrastinating

#1. We need to strive to keep things in proper balance. Good balance comes in doing things in a timely way and in not procrastinating our preparation or waiting to fulfill our responsibilities until the last minute.

M. Russell Ballard

#2. When you have the urge to run away, you are feeding into fearful thoughts that keep you stuck. What benefit are you gaining by escaping? Is there a payoff to procrastinating?

Scott Allan

#3. I have no point in procrastinating any longer..

Flora Rheta Schreiber

#4. Inertia is so easy - don't fix what's not broken. Leave well enough alone. So we end up accepting what is broken, mistaking complaining for action, procrastinating for deliberation.

Justina Chen Headley

#5. How can you attain satisfaction if you have more excuses than action?

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#6. Live now. Procrastinate later.

Karen Salmansohn

#7. I think a lot of the basis of the open source movement comes from procrastinating students ...

Andrew Tridgell

#8. I hate procrastinating, so much so that I often do my homework on Friday so it won't be hanging over my head all weekend long. The good
thing is, my (nonexistent) social life doesn't usually interfere with this quirk of mine.

Kim Harrington

#9. Dreams, unlike eggs, don't hatch from sitting on them.

Frank Sonnenberg

#10. I get the most work done when I'm procrastinating. While avoiding an unpleasant task, I find several other tasks twice as unpleasant, and get those out of the way first.

Marcia K. Matthews

#11. I highly doubt anyone would see anything," he said, replying to my thoughts. "We're on the 30th floor. Stop procrastinating; take off your fucking clothes.

Lilly Wilde

#12. Nothing says work efficiency like panic mode.

Don Roff

#13. The choice is not working or not working, but which type of work; even feeling guilty because of procrastinating takes some effort. When you commit to a goal, you're committing to a form of work that brings ongoing rewards. When you procrastinate, you're choosing a self-punishing form of work.

Neil A. Fiore

#14. Apparently, despite my awareness of its pejorative connotation, procrastinating is something I fall victim to quite frequently. I'm not proud of it; I'm just being honest.

Rachel Nichols

#15. Task triage is the habit of making a realistic assessment of what degree of perfection is required for a task at the point of accepting it, so one doesn't need to rely on one's habit of procrastinating to lower the bar.

John Perry

#16. Zealous statesmen perhaps did more mischief than anything in the Galaxy--with the possible exception of procrastinating soldiers. That could indicate the fundamental difference between statecraft and war.

H. Beam Piper

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

John Perry

#18. In life one has a choice to take one of two paths: to wait for some special day - or to celebrate each special day.

Rasheed Ogunlaru

#19. You've got to realize that the world's a test,
You can only do your best and let Him do the rest.
You've got your life, and got your health,
So quit procrastinating and push it yourself.

Cee Lo Green

#20. Think about the work you already do. Is it meaningful & challenging? Are you appreciated & recognized for what you're doing?

Mani S. Sivasubramanian

#21. [A] partial repeal, or, as the bon ton of the court then was, a modification, would have satisfied a timid, unsystematic, procrastinating Ministry, as such a measure has since done such a Ministry. A modificatio is the constant resource of weak, undeciding minds.

Edmund Burke

#22. Procrastinating, fighting and avoiding will only make it more difficult. The way out is to get it done.

Ralph Marston

#23. My biggest mistake: not wanting to help myself into thinking I am happy, that change would come about without really trying to change, or wanting to change. Procrastinating about changing. I do want to change.

Beatrice Sparks

#24. 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.

Benjamin Haydon

#25. My writing process, such as it is, consists of a lot of noodling, procrastinating, dawdling, and avoiding.

Amy Bloom

#26. One of the very worst uses of time is to do something very well that need not to be done at all.

Brian Tracy

#27. Find your way early, on the road of life. For the way is too long to be struggling, and far too short to be waiting.

Anthony Liccione

#28. Procrastinating to embark on your passion is a risky business, because tomorrow may never come!

Alex Zar

#29. I found the sections on aging, relationships, and procrastinating especially helpful. I really found the tips and suggestions very helpful, inspiring, positive, and motivating. Yes, I would definitely recommend it.

Karen Lewis

#30. PROCRASTINATION means you know what you need to do and you don't do it. If you don't know what to do, you aren't procrastinating. You're thinking.

Lynn Lively

#31. I'm a big believer in putting things off, In fact, I even put off procrastinating.
-Ella Varner

Lisa Kleypas

#32. I can procrastinate thinking about my procrastination problem. I can procrastinate dealing with my problem of procrastinating thinking about my procrastination problem.

Anonymous

#33. You'll sometimes hear from people that they actually do a better job of getting their work done when they have a lot of other obligations - in effect, it removes the possibility of procrastinating.

James Surowiecki

#34. The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.

Lord Chesterfield

#35. When you make a choice, there is always a cost, remind yourself of this when you find yourself procrastinating.

Jeff Boyer

#36. I was a very good student. Procrastinating gives me anxiety, and getting a B really ticked me off. Sure, I didn't always want to do my homework, but I actually really liked school. As nerdy as it sounds, I love learning.

Josie Loren

#37. I'm so good at procrastinating.

Seth Rogen

#38. For me, writing is 75 percent procrastinating and 25 percent actually sitting down and working.

Zooey Deschanel

#39. Don't throw away another day! No more procrastinating! Only YOU can make it happen. So, UN-ASS the couch and make it happen!

Steve Maraboli

#40. Tomorrow, the busiest day of the week. I'm a big believer in putting things off, In fact, I even put off procrastinating.

Elle Varner

#41. Both positive and negative thinking are contagious.

Stephen Richards

#42. Live life like you mean it! Stop procrastinating! Do all that you can ... with all that you have ... in the place that you are ... right now! Life is too unpredictable to put things off and not take it seriously.

Les Brown

#43. Instead of procrastinating to accomplish your tasks, do them as soon as you need to.

Vanessa Pagan

#44. The sooner you finish procrastinating, the sooner you can get back to your art.

Stephanie Lennox

#45. Pause and remember - Stop procrastinating! Wishing is wonderful but action is what it takes to make it happen.

Jennifer Young

#46. Habitual procrastinators will readily testify to all the lost opportunities, missed deadlines, failed relationships and even monetary losses incurred just because of one nasty habit of putting things off until it is often too late.

Stephen Richards