“No amount of money, no amount of security is ever going to give you the sense that this is the right time.”— Debbie Millman, tim.blog
“The true crime would be to not finish what we started.”— Alvin Sargent, Dr. Otto Octavius / Doctor Octopus, Alfred Molina, imdb.com
“There ain’t no waiting. Not in this world. Waiting, that’s how you lose people.”— Anna Fishko, Morgan Jones, Lennie James, imdb.com
“If we wait until we're ready, we'll be waiting for the rest of our lives.”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com
“Stan: Hut, hut, hut, hut, hut, hut, hut, hut, hut, hut— Chef: HIKE THE DAMN BALL!!”— Matt Stone, Trey Parker, Chef, Isaac Hayes, imdb.com
“Carol Seaver: You mean, you haven't even started yet? Mike Seaver: What's your point? Carol Seaver: 4.0. What's yours?”— Christopher Ames, Carolyn Shelby, Carol Seaver, Tracey Gold, imdb.com
“Self-forgiveness and self-compassion are both related to less procrastination, not more. The study I’ve summarized today suggests that one of the effects of self-compassion may well be to reduce ruminative brooding—those repetitive negative thoughts about the past—and allow us to let go and move for…”— Timothy A Pychyl, psychologytoday.com
“Procrastination is best understood as an emotion-focused coping strategy. We use task avoidance to escape negative emotions associated with a task (e.g., frustration, boredom, stress, anxiety). As colleagues have explained so well before, 'we give in to feel good,' prioritizing the management of ave…”— Timothy A Pychyl, psychologytoday.com
“Masturbation is like procrastination—it's all good fun until you realize you’re just fucking yourself.”— Unknown, tcat.tc
“'But!? how do you avoid procrastination?' If you give enough damns about what you're doing, the infinity scroll of the internet really has no power over you.”— Maggie Stiefvater, twitter.com
“A big part of our jobs, as mature adult human beings, is figuring out who we are and what we value WITHOUT falling back on a million and one inaccurate and clumsy stories told by other people who know us about as well as a fucking squirrel knows the moon. The squirrel might say, “The moon is on fire…”— Heather Havrilesky, thecut.com
“You could be a fireman on a fire truck on the way to a fire. You bump into one of my relatives. ‘I'm sorry Uncle Leo, there's a building full of people burning down. I really do have to be running.’ He'll go: ‘Go. Go ahead. Go to your fancy fire. If that's what you have to do.’”— Larry David, Jerry Seinfeld, Jerry Seinfeld, imdb.com
“It's only for three days. Today's over and we have tomorrow. We leave on Sunday. It's one day, really.”— Larry David, Jerry Seinfeld, Jerry Seinfeld, imdb.com
“A lack of routine is just a breeding ground for perpetual procrastination.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“Kris Jenner is a fucking G. The biggest lesson she's taught me is to not procrastinate. When you want something done, get it done. If you're a procrastinator, this is not the world for you. If someone tells her no, she has no problem standing her ground and saying, 'We're not accepting that, get som…”— Stephanie Shepherd, refinery29.com
“...my evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season...”— Mary Todd Lincoln, amazon.com