Hillel the Elder Quotes

Do not say, 'When I have leisure, I will study,' because you may never have leisure.

The habits of study in which I have been brought up have done much to support me. I never allow myself to be one moment unoccupied.

I procrastinate so much and I get distracted by anything.

I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.

I was a good student, but I was the biggest procrastinator.

Do not spend the day in gathering flowers by the way side, lest night come upon you before you arrive at your journey's end, and then you will not reach it.

If you wait until you feel like doing something, you will likely never accomplish it.

Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today -- for tomorrow's gonna be bad enough as it is.

If you do the things you need to do when you need to do them, then someday you can do the things you want do when you want to do them.

Memorize the selfstarter DO IT NOW! DO IT NOW! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Time management requires self-discipline, self-mastery and self-control more than anything else.

He who puts off nothing till tomorrow has done a great deal.

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.

Indeed it is better to postpone, lest either we complete too little by hurrying, or wander too long in completing it.

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

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

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

I swing between procrastination and being really thorough so either way things aren't getting done quickly.

I'm a terrible procrastinator.

Also, I'm always learning better and better how to prioritize and how to leave certain things for the next day.

I'm so good at procrastinating.

The best way for me to procrastinate as a writer is research.

I learnt that I must never finish a book with nothing else to do.

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.