"Never save the best for later. You don't know what tomorrow holds."
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"Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow."
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"Do not say, 'When I have leisure, I will study,' because you may never have leisure."
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"One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living."
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"We are now faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there is such a thing as being too late. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Life often leaves us standing bare, naked, and dejected with a lost opportunity. . . . Over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words, 'Too late.' ... Now let us begin. Now let us rededicate ourselves to the long and bitter, but beautiful, struggle for a new world."
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"If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done."
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"We need to give thought, but we also need to take action. You need to dream without just being a dreamer."
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"We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end to them."
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"The best way to deal with procrastination is to postpone it."
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"You made delay, but time will not, and lost time is never found again."
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"Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him."
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"Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether."
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"Procrastinate strategically... Procrastination may be the enemy of productivity but it can be a valuable resource for creativity."
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"Procrastination is the fear of success."
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"It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end."
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"Don't put off until tomorrow what you can do today."
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"Hoping drains your energy. Action creates energy."
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"Great acts are made up of small deeds."
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"Few understand that procrastination is our natural defense, letting things take care of themselves and exercise their antifragility; it results from some ecological or naturalistic wisdom, and is not always bad - at an existential level, it is my body rebelling against its entrapment. It is my soul fighting the Procrustean bed of modernity."
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"Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them."
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