#procrastination

Lack of confidence, sometimes alternating with unrealistic dreams of heroic success, often leads to procrastination, and many studies suggest that procrastinators are self-handicappers: rather than risk failure, they prefer to create conditions that make success impossible, a reflex that of course creates a vicious cycle. ↗

— James Surowiecki

#procrastination #self-confidence #success #dreams

The Queen, bless her heart, has cultivated procrastination to a degree which is really an art--when one is vexed, as I fear I often am, one should recall that the Bowes Lyons are the laziest family in the world. Against this reflection it becomes remarkable that she accomplishes so much. ↗

— Arthur Penn

#royal-family #art

I Can't think about that right now. If I do, I'll go crazy. I'll think about that tomorrow. ↗

— Margaret Mitchell

#crazy

If you choose to not deal with an issue, then you give up your right of control over the issue and it will select the path of least resistance. ↗

— Susan Del Gatto

#problem-solving #procrastination #stress-management-maintenance #path

I'd be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I'd been given. I'd be more frightened by procrastination and laziness. ↗

— Denzel Washington

#frightened #given #i #laziness #more

Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy. ↗

— Wayne Gretzky

#deadliest #diseases #happiness #heavy #most

Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well". From: "More Maxims of Mark ↗

— Mark Twain

#procrastination #humor

If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination. ↗

— Thomas de Quincey

#drinking #himself #indulges #little #man

Let's take care of the little things while they're still little. ↗

— John G. Miller

#life

It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#resistance #resistance