"My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season."
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"Procrastination is hardly more evil than grasping impatience."
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"Space we can recover; time never."
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"Postpone not your life."
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"Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday."
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"Procrastination is One of those Excuses, Born of Fear, that we Use to Keep Ourselves Stuck"
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"If the world is a progressively realized community of interpretation, then either quadruplictity will drink procrastination or, provided that the nothing negates, boredom will ensue seldom more often than frequently."
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"We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are either spent in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them."
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"You must master the habit of procrastination and eliminate it from your wake-up. This habit of putting off until tomorrow that which you should have done last week or last year or a score of years ago is gnawing at the very vitals of your being and you can accomplish nothing until you throw it off."
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"Perfectionism is not as much the desire for excellence, as it is the fear of failure couched in procrastination ."
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"Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task."
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"Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends."
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"If you are not ready today, you will be even less so tomorrow."
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"We must be diligent today. To wait until tomorrow is too late. Death comes unexpectedly. How can we bargain with it?"
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"He who puts off nothing till tomorrow has done a great deal."
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"Procrastination is a lazy man's apology."
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"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."
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"Diligence is the mother of good luck, and God gives all things to industry. Work while it is called today, for you know not how much you may be hindered by tomorrow. One today is worth two tomorrows; never leave that till tomorrow which you can do to-day."
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"A good procrastination should feel like you're inserting lots and lots of commas into the sentence of your life."
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"We are faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words ‘Too Late’."
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