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Tag Name "Procrastination" (253)

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The momentum of continuous action fuels motivation, while procrastination kills motivation.
Steve Pavlina
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Procrastination is a common reaction to feeling overwhelmed or fear of failure. Instead of taking on too much at once and overwhelming yourself, break things down and take one small action step at a time.
Lauren Mackler
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Pay now, play later play now, pay later.
John C. Maxwell
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One today is worth two tomorrows.
Benjamin Franklin
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Delay is the deadliest form of denial.
C. Northcote Parkinson
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Whatever things injure your eye you are anxious to remove but things which affect your mind you defer.
Horace
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If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.
Lee Iacocca
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Procrastination is probably my worst habit out of many. Especially when it comes to paperwork.
Tom Conti
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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.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Much of the stress that people feel doesn't come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they've started.
David Allen
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My procrastination which has held me back was born of fear ... now I know that to conquer fear I must always act without hesitation and the flutters in my heart will vanish. Now I know that action reduces the lion of terror.... I will walk where the failure fears to walk.
Og Mandino
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Those who are late will be punished by life itself.
Mikhail Gorbachev
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The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and starting on the first one.
Mark Twain
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I think there is clearly a connection between free time and procrastination. The more you have of the former, all things being equal, the more likely you are to procrastinate.
James Surowiecki
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Academics, who work for long periods in a self-directed fashion, may be especially prone to putting things off: surveys suggest that the vast majority of college students procrastinate, and articles in the literature of procrastination often allude to the author's own problems with finishing the piece.
James Surowiecki
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I ... practiced all the arts of apology, evasion, and invisibility, to which procrastinators must sooner or later be reduced.
Maria Edgeworth
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I used to go online all the time, and then I had to stop myself... because I'm a writer, and it's like: to have a procrastination tool, like, within my computer... it was just getting too hairy.
Mike White
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If you put off everything till you're sure of it, you'll never get anything done.
Norman Vincent Peale
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I love deadlines. I like the whooshing noise they make as they go by.
Douglas Adams
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Procrastination is attitude's natural assassin. There's nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
William James
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Don't fool yourself that important things can be put off till tomorrow they can be put off forever, or not at all
Mignon McLaughlin
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I've been looking over the list of spring chores I made up last fall, and darned if they aren't fall chores, after all.
Robert Breault
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Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
M. Scott Peck
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My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.
Charles Dickens
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