Julia Cameron Quotes

Indulge in procrastination, and in time yon will come to this, that because a thing ought to be done, therefore you can't do it.

The most pernicious aspect of procrastination is that it can become a habit. We don't just put off our lives today; we put them off till our deathbed.

A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.

Procrastination is not Laziness", I tell him. "It is fear. Call it by its right name, and forgive yourself.

One of the things I'm really good at is procrastinating.

I'm so good at procrastinating.

I've always been a procrastinator.

I can procrastinate a little bit.

Procrastination is another form of resistance

Nothing so perilous as procrastination

Reluctance to begin is quick to befriend procrastination. . . .

Later is always my first choice.

I checked my gear, my pockets, my shoelaces, and realized that I had crossed the line between making sure I was ready and trying to postpone the inevitable.

I am lazy, but for some reason, I am so paranoid that I end up working hard.

I am so busy doing nothing... that the idea of doing anything - which as you know, always leads to something - cuts into the nothing and then forces me to have to drop everything.

There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start.

If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.

Every time I start a new piece of work, I spend a long while under the duvet thinking I can't do it.

I think of myself as naturally idle. The trouble is, the 'nothing' that I do every day is not really nothing. I potter. I muck about with emails, I make coffee, I fiddle with my computer to make sure that the book I haven't started writing is perfectly synced across all platforms and devices.

We are so in fear of failure that often we prefer not to try..

I'm a pretty good procrastinator.

We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.

The procrastinator is not only indolent and weak, but commonly, false, too; most of the weak are false.

Procrastination is a lazy man's apology.

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