Oh, procrastination! I know I should start this project, but there's always something else that seems more urgent, or perhaps more enjoyable. I'll do it later, I promise! It’s a vicious cycle of guilt and false promises to myself. I’m not lazy, I just… find it hard to start.
Delve into these quotes that reveal the secrets of procrastination, postponing tasks, and breaking the cycle of laziness.
āEvery time a resolve or a fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing practical fruit is worse than a chance lost; it works to hinder future resolutions and emotions from taking the normal path of discharge. There is no more contemptible type of human character than that of the nerveless sentimentalist and dreamer, who spends his life in a weltering sea of sensibility and emotion, but who never does a manly concrete deed.ā
āWe forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort. We postpone and postpone until those smiling possibilities are dead... By neglecting the necessary concrete labor, by sparing ourselves the little daily tax, we are positively digging the graves of our higher possibilities.ā
āThere is one thing about Englishmen, they won't fix anything till it's just about totally ruined. You couldn't get the English to fix anything at the start. No! They like to sit and watch it grow worse. Then, when it just looks like the whole thing has gone up Salt Creek, why, the English jump in and rescue it.ā
