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The forms are many in which the unchanging seeks relief from its formlessness.

Along with voting, jury duty, and paying taxes, goofing off is one of the central obligations of Ame...

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I see that I've become a really bad correspondent. It's not that I don't think of you. You come into...

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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.

You've got to go to Boston, and you've got to go there NOW!!

The scholar's greatest weakness: calling procrastination research.

He who every morning plans the transactions of that day and follows that plan carries a thread that ...

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Procrastination is opportunity's natural assassin.

Never put off for tomorrow, what you can do today.

One of the very worst uses of time is to do something very well that need not to be done at all.

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Brian TracyEat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time

The duty of planning the morrow's work is today's duty...

The air was filled with phantoms... and... the misery with them all was, clearly, that they sought t...

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Charles DickensA Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.

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Erica JongSeducing the Demon: Writing for My Life

Have more than one idea on the go at any one time. If it's a choice between writing a book and doing...

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If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you'll find you've done it.

Now there was no sign of any foul weather, but when one wishes to do a thing . . . one finds no lack...

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Howard PyleThe Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

He saw it for the first time: on the day he died he would be wearing unmatching socks, there would b...

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It must take a lot of self-discipline,' she said.'Oh, I don't know. I don't have much.' He felt hims...

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John CrowleyAmerican Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940's Until Now

Do you write every day?' 'Oh, no. Oh, I sort of try. I don't work very hard, really. Really I'm on v...

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John CrowleyAmerican Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940's Until Now

Procrastination is not Laziness", I tell him. "It is fear. Call it by its right name, and forgive yo...

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Had I been less firmly resolved upon settling down definitively to work, I should perhaps have made ...

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Marcel ProustWithin a Budding Grove

Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.

The funny thing about my procrastination was that I was almost done with the screenplay. I was like ...

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Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone

As a writer, I need an enormous amount of time alone. Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading...

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Do something instead of killing time. Because time is killing you.

From now on I hope always to stay alert, to educate myself as best I can. But lacking this, in Futur...

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