Gretchen Rubin Quotes

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.

Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.

It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.

Tomorrow becomes never. No matter how small the task, take the first step now!

The distracting feeling of disbelief when you're finally doing something you've procrastinated on for notable amounts of time.

As he that lives longest lives but a little while, every man may be certain that he has no time to waste. The duties of life are commensurate to its duration; and every day brings its task, which, if neglected, is doubled on the morrow.

I have reached the end of my time, and have hardly come to the beginning of my task.

Procrastination is a deadly weapon of human progress.

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.

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

Research can become Resistance. We want to work, not prepare to work.

Every duty which is bidden to wait returns with seven fresh duties at its back.

Procrastination is something you do yourself. You know: "I gotta sharpen these pencils before I start. I got 20 pencils, they're looking kinda dull." Well, the pencils aren't calling you and alluring you and inviting you and offering you anything. They're just sitting there. You're the one who's procrastinating.

Time lost is time lost. It’s gone forever. Some people tell themselves that they will work twice as hard tomorrow to make up for what they did not do today. People should always do their best. If they work twice as hard tomorrow, then they should have also worked twice as hard today. That would have been their best.

In putting off what one has to do, one runs the risk of never being able to do it.

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

Without a deadline, baby, I wouldn't do nothing.

Any time we have projects that we haven't begun or completed, they drain energy.

As so often happens, the thing left undone tires you most of all, you only feel rested when it has been accomplished.

Step by step, you make your way forward. That’s why practices such as daily writing exercises or keeping a daily blog can be so helpful. You see yourself do the work, which shows you that you can do the work. Progress is reassuring and inspiring; panic and then despair set in when you find yourself getting nothing done day after day. One of the painful ironies of work life is that the anxiety of procrastination often makes people even less likely to buckle down in the future.

I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones.

Every man has something to do which he neglects, every man has faults to conquer which he delays to combat.

For me, writing is 75 percent procrastinating and 25 percent actually sitting down and working.

Take care of difficult calls or emails as quickly as possible. Procrastinating just makes it harder; getting them done gives a big boost of relieved energy.

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