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"That was the year, my twenty-eighth, when I was discovering that not all of the promises would be kept, that some things are in fact irrevocable and that it had counted after all, every evasion and every procrastination, every mistake, every word, all of it."
"Procrastination is another form of resistance"
"Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform and mortal men lay hold on heaven."
"Any time we have projects that we haven't begun or completed, they drain energy."
"Procrastination is attitude's natural assassin. There's nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task"
"Few understand that procrastination is our natural defense, letting things take care of themselves and exercise their antifragility."
"Do not act as if you had a thousand years to live."
"I once heard a sober alcoholic say that drinking never made him happy, but it made him feel like he was going to be happy in about fifteen minutes. That was exactly it, and I couldn't understand why the happiness never came, couldn't see the flaw in my thinking, couldn't see that alcohol kept me trapped in a world of illusion, procrastination, paralysis. I lived always in the future, never in the present. Next time, next time! Next time I drank it would be different, next time it would make me feel good again."
"Do not delay, Do not delay: the golden moments fly!"
"At thirty, man suspects himself a fool; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan."
"All we have is here and now. That's why procrastination feels so right. Procrastination isn't the problem, it's the solution."
"We went to lunch and were talking about procrastination and the waitress overheard us and she said, 'I have a problem with procrastination, too.' I said 'Really?... Get my sandwich.'"
"The era of procrastination...is coming to a close...we are entering a period of consequences - Winston Churchill (warning about the danger of appeasement"
"I have spent many days stringing and unstringing my instrument while the song I came to sing remains unsung."
"Nothing is more burdensome than an unfinished task."
"There is sometimes only a very fine line between deliberation and procrastination."
"Procrastination is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fled."
"Be wise today; 'tis madness to defer. Next day the fatal precedent will plead; thus on, til wisdom is pushed our of life."
"Time destroyed Is suicide, where more than blood is spilt."
"Procrastination is the thief of time; year after year it steals, till all are fled, and to the mercies of a moment leaves the vast concerns of an eternal state. At thirty, man suspects himself a fool; knows it at forty, and reforms his plan; at fifty chides his infamous delay, pushes his prudent purpose to resolve; in all the magnanimity of thought, resolves, and re-resolves, then dies the same."
