Sarah Addison Allen Quotes

You never put off until tomorrow or even this afternoon what you can do this morning. Attack the objective when your desire is strongest.

If you give yourself to your task at once, you won't have to do it twice.

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

You don't need endless time and perfect conditions. Do it now. Do it today. Do it for twenty minutes and watch your heart start beating.

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

There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks.

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.

A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.

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

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

When I have time, I'll be a good girl and do my chores.

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

Whatever the right hand findeth to do, the left hand carries a watch on its wrist to show how long it takes to do it.

I don't have a good work ethic. I have a real casual relationship with hours.

I always got my work done before playing.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

When you have to stay late, you stay late, and when you don't have to stay late, you go home. But, you do whatever it takes to get the job done that day.

I need to complete my homework on time.

The biggest way to be productive is if you're procrastinating on another more important project.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

If I let myself go, nothing will get done.

I think backstory is really important to know because I'm all about prep work. I like to do all of my work right away, as soon as I get it. I'm incapable of procrastinating on anything, so I like to do all of the work.

We like to bully deadlines. Pick on them; make fun of them; even spit on them sometimes. But what a terrible thing to do. Deadlines are actually our best friends.

I have a terrible work ethic. The best way for me to do anything in life is for someone to say, 'You need to do this by this time, or you're in trouble'.

I'm the type of person that if I put it off, I'll forget about it.