Putting Off Quotes

half the good intentions of my life have been frustrated by my unfortunate habit of putting things off till to-morrow.

I've kind of done everything late.

If I don't get you now, I'll get you later.

My life is a monument to procrastination, to the art of putting things off until later, or much later, or possibly never.

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

I do laundry, but my bags from the last race will sit there until the very last minute that I have to do laundry again.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can put off till the day after tomorrow. Like a variant of the song, Tomorrow, only it's more of the idea, the Mexican idea of mañana, you know, [singing] mañana, mañana, I love you, mañana, you're always a day away.

We went to lunch and were talking about procrastination and the waitress overheard us and she said, 'I have a problem with procrastination, too.' I said 'Really?... Get my sandwich.'

In high school, I was the biggest procrastinator in the world.

How do you gag the voice in your head that says, 'You don't have to [do it] today. There's always tomorrow.'?

There is only so much that you can kick the can down the road.

It seemed better to delay thinking.

I often work by avoidance.

If you start to revise before you've reached the end, you're likely to begin dawdling with the revisions and putting off the difficult task of writing.

Put it off for a bit. All life is putting off. Well, not entirely.

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

I've got to that stage in my life where, difficult decisions I don't have to make, I push them into the future until such time I have to make them.

Sometimes, there is no harm in putting off a piece of work until another day.

If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.

That's always the way in life: the longer you leave things, the harder they are to do.

Postponement: The father of failure.

My favorite method of procrastination is to do something else that needs doing, but not quite so imminently. Sleeping is also good, as is drinking until you really can't do anything very well anymore.