Norman R. Augustine Quotes

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

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

Procrastination is still the thief of time.

When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else - we are the busiest people in the world.

I need eight hours to get maybe 20 minutes of work done. I had one of those yesterday: seven hours of self-loathing.

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.

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 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.

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

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'm a terrible procrastinator.

I'm so good at procrastinating.

If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.

The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.

People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.

Half the time men think they are talking business, they are wasting time.

Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing.

I can procrastinate a little bit.

I'm a pretty good procrastinator.

I'm the kind of person who will set time aside to do something and then do everything but that thing.

When I'm supposed to be writing I clean my apartment, take my clothes to the laundry, get organized, make lists, do the dishes. I would never do a dish unless I had to write.

It is an undoubted truth, that the less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in. One yawns, one procrastinates, one can do it when one will, and therefore one seldom does it at all.

Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues. Be active in business, that temptation may miss her aim; the bird that sits is easily shot.

Talkers are no good doers.