A. J. Jacobs Quotes

Stop putting it off! Procrastination breeds guilt, guilt breeds depression, and depression breeds failure.

Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.

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

I'm a terrible procrastinator.

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.

I used to delay doing stuff that I just didn't want to deal with - things like putting the garden hose away properly or doing the dishes right after dinner. Now I have this little voice in my head that says, 'I know you don't want to do this, but just do it anyway.' In other words, there's far less stuff that I put off until tomorrow.

I don't know how I can be so ambitious and so lazy at the same time.

Procrastination is the kidnapper of souls and the recruiting-officer of hell.

Procrastinatio n is the thief of dreams

Set your goals high and go far. Don't put off tomorrow what you can do today.

I said to myself, 'If you don't sit down to it today, when will you ever sit down to it?'

What is it that makes us suppose that we can more easily do twice tomorrow what we didn't do once today!

Whatever can be done another day can be done today.

There's a realization that you have to do something but you just can't do it all the time.

I procrastinate, and I push writing to the last available moment, because I don't like to settle on anything. I guess you can call it indecision or you can call it holding out for inspiration.

How comfortable some of us become as we nestle in the web of procrastination. It is a false haven of rest for those who are content to live without purpose, commitment, or self-discipline.

It's very easy to fool yourself that you're working, you know, when you're really not working very hard. I mean, I'm very lazy. So for me, I would always have an excuse, you know, to go - quit early, go to a museum, you know. So I do everything I can to make myself remember this is a job. I keep a schedule.

Don't be silly and don't waste your time.

There's nothing wrong with procrastination. Or is there? I'll leave it to you to decide, but only if you have the time.

I procrastinate so much and I get distracted by anything.

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

I'm so good at procrastinating.

I was a terrible student. Still, I managed to get into college, but my daydreaming threatened to sabotage me. I used behavior modification to break the cycle. I started by setting an arbitrary time limit on studying: for every 15 minutes of study, I'd allow myself an hour of daydreaming. I set the alarm.

There is no labor in which we engage but that there is a spirit telling us, 'Oh, you do not need to do that; it is a waste of time, and you ought to be engaged in something else.'