Zitat des Tages über Aufschub / Procrastination:
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder.
My constant battle is putting aside time wasters, and I have to watch out for procrastination. Staying on the path of something you're trying to create has much to do with having confidence in yourself and in your capacity to realize the things you want out of life.
I'd be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I'd been given. I'd be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.
I try to procrastinate, if I can, productively, like I'll work on something else as procrastination. Or I take a walk. Because often I find, if you get out, more things come to you.
Hesitation is often like procrastination. One may have vague doubts and feel a need to mull things over; meanwhile, other issues intrude on thought, and no decision is taken. Ask people why they procrastinate, and you probably won't get a crisp answer.
Procrastination is opportunity's assassin.
My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season.
Procrastination is like a credit card: it's a lot of fun until you get the bill.
I have an advanced degree in procrastination and another one in paranoia.
Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.
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 doesn't work for everything. For instance, waiting to buy plane tickets at the last minute will typically end up costing you more.
If you want to be certain, you should never get married. You should never change jobs. In fact, you might as well just stay home. Because I don't know anybody who is certain. That need to be certain is just procrastination.
Working is one of the most dangerous forms of procrastination.
Imagination only comes when you privilege the subconscious, when you make delay and procrastination work for you.
Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
One of the great challenges of our age, in which the tools of our productivity are also the tools of our leisure, is to figure out how to make more useful those moments of procrastination when we're idling in front of our computer screens.
Procrastination comes in two types. Some of us procrastinate in order to pursue restful activities - spending time in bed, watching TV - while others delay difficult or unpleasant tasks in favor of those that are more fun.
My life is a monument to procrastination, to the art of putting things off until later, or much later, or possibly never.
I see procrastination and research as part of my artistic process.
I, for one, find writing excruciating. Some mornings, as I'm on my way to my desk, my hands actually tremble with fear. The fear, of course, is that I'll sit down at the desk and discover that what I've written is claptrap. Fear inevitably leads to procrastination.