16 quotes found
“The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.”
“Capable psychonauts who think about thinking, about states of mind, about set and setting, can get things done not because they have more willpower or drive, but because they know productivity is a...”
“If you fail to believe you will procrastinate or become idealustic about how awesome you are at working hard and managing your time, you never develop a strategy for outmaneuvering your own weakness.”
“Procrastination is opportunity's natural assassin.”
“24 hours a day, ain't enough anymore! But give some a Century a day and procrastination would still be their undoing.”
“If you want to get ahead in life, I've found that perhaps the most useless word in the world is "tomorrow.”
“You may delay, but time will not.”
“Had I been less firmly resolved upon settling down definitively to work, I should perhaps have made an effort to begin at once. But since my resolution was explicit, since within twenty-four hours,...”
“Do you write every day?' 'Oh, no. Oh, I sort of try. I don't work very hard, really. Really I'm on vacation. All the time. Or you could say I work all the time, too. It comes to the same thing.' He...”
“By seeing what triggers procrastination, and then making a plan to flip those triggers, doing your taxes becomes attractive. If I found myself putting off doing my taxes, I might sit down and make ...”
“Never put off for tomorrow, what you can do today.”
“Procrastination is the thief of time.”
“Do what you know needs to be done.”
“Every minute we waste in frustration over a task that seems overwhelming is a minute subtracted from the time we've allotted to enjoy life.”
“Procrastination can be overcome with effective time management skills and strategies.”
