Procrastination quotes
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"I have a terrible problem with procrastination. A friend told me, "Well, you should go to therapy." And I thought about it, but then I said, "Wait a minute. Why should I pay a stranger to listen to me talk when I can get strangers to pay to listen to me talk?" And that's when I got the idea of touring."
"Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until he knew enough to write them well. Well, he would not have to fail at trying to write them either. Maybe you could never write them, and that was why you put them off and delayed the starting. Well he would never know, now."
"This is a pie chart about procrastination."
"Somebody was using the pencil."
"Potential is an excuse to procrastinate; Ambition is a means to thrive."
"I like movies. I've written screenplays as a sort of procrastination thing for me. Like I'll work for a couple months on this idea that's been kicking around and then like 30 pages in I'll just go try a novel because it's a lot easier. That's what I know. So why am I killing myself?"
"Climate change has a very high procrastination penalty that just grows with each passing year of inaction - rather like what happens if you don't pay off your credit card. But for climate, there is no such thing as a fresh start from bankruptcy."
"Life is a race. If you delay starting, how can you have any hope of winning?"
"I have a problem with procrastination. I have a great deal of difficulty deciding what to wear. It's a woman thing."
"the obligation to express gratitude deepens with procrastination. The longer you wait, the more effusive must be the thanks."
"I don't think of it as procrastination. I think of it as allowing my work to accumulate urgency."
