Fred Allen Quotes

Procrastination is not the problem. It is the solution. Procrastinate now, don’t put it off.

Procrastination is a deadly weapon of human progress.

The greatest thief this world has ever produced is procrastination, and he is still at large.

Procrastination is still the thief of time.

All we have is here and now. That's why procrastination feels so right. Procrastination isn't the problem, it's the solution.

Do not put your work off till to-morrow and the day after; for a sluggish worker does not fill his barn, nor one who puts off his work: industry makes work go well, but a man who puts off work is always at hand-grips with ruin.

I make myself a bowl of instant oatmeal, and then I don't do anything for an hour. Why do I need the instant oatmeal? I could get the regular oatmeal and feel productive.

There were times in my life when I had one thing to do all day, but I still couldn’t get to it. “I gotta go to the post office, but I’d probably have to put on pants. And they’re only open till five. Looks like I’m going to have to do that next week.

But why do only unimportant things?" asked Milo, who suddenly remembered how much time he spent each day doing them. "Think of all the trouble it saves," the man explained, and his face looked as if he'd be grinning an evil grin--if he could grin at all. "If you only do the easy and useless jobs, you'll never have to worry about the important ones which are so difficult. You just won't have the time. For there's always something to do to keep you from what you really should be doing, and if it weren't for that dreadful magic staff, you'd never know how much time you were wasting.

Three minutes thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.

Being busy is a form of laziness - lazy thinking and indiscriminate action. Being busy is most often used as a guise for avoiding the few critically important but uncomfortable actions.

One of the best ways of avoiding necessary and even urgent tasks is to seem to be busily employed on things that are already done.

Most people spend most of their time on low-priority busywork because it requires no additional knowledge, skills, or imagination-or courage. In a word, it's easier.

Oh, they've been putting in the long hours ... But is that because they don't have the skills, and everything takes twice as long? Or do they put in these hours to avoid what they should be doing ... which is stopping and binning a lot of [their work]?

Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.

Procrastination is probably my worst habit out of many. Especially when it comes to paperwork.

If employees need to stay late in order to curry favor with the boss, what motivation do they have to get work done during normal business hours? After all, they can put in the requisite 'face time' whether they are surfing the Internet or analyzing customer data.

I don't do meetings.

Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.

By helping us to be more productive, technology lets us to spend less time focusing on survival, and more on solving other challenges.

In delay there lies no plenty.

You have to keep busy. After all, no dog's ever pissed on a moving car.

If we didn't have deadlines, we'd stagnate.

Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.

Do the jobs you like least first. It makes each successive job easier.