18 Feb 2008 04:53:16 | Achi
Throughout the course of human existence, man has celebrated various breakthroughs as well as diverse setbacks in the forms of negative attitude leading to unproductivity.
Procrastination is at the forefront of such negative setback that it has drawn the attention of several experts in diverse fields to comment about its influence and effects in the place of successful achievement.
Some of these comments I have tried to outline here. The ones I do not know its author I have left blank. Enjoy some of them;
· You may regain lost health, position or power but not time
· Every beginner is a winner;having won victory over inertia, procrastination and fear of starting
· It is not talent that men lack, it is the will to labor, it is the purpose, not the power to produce
· Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task - William James
· Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday - Don Marquis
· Only Robinson Crusoe had everything done by Friday
· There are a million way to loose a work day, but not even a single way to get one back - Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister
· Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment - Robert Benchley
· To think too long about doing a thing often becomes it's undoing - Eva Young
· Someday is not a day of the week
· It is an undoubted truth that the less on has to do, the less time on finds to do it in - Earl of Chesterfield
· If it weren't for the last minute, I wouldn't get anything done.
· Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow - Mark Twain
· Procrastination is like masturbation. At first, it feels good, but you are only screwing yourself
· Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week - Spanish Proverb
· The best way to get something done is to begin
· You know you are getting old when it takes too much effort to procrastinate
· Tomorrow is the only day in the year that appeals o a lazy man - Jimmy Lyons
· A year from now, you may wish you had started today - karen Lamb
· Every duty which is bidden to wait returns with seven fresh duties at its back -
Charles Kingsley
· You may delay, but time will not - Benjamin Franklin
· Procrastination is the thief of time - Edward Young
· Tomorrow is the day when idlers work and fools reform - Edward Young
· Putting off an easy thing makes it hard. Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible - George Claude Lorimer
I hope you found those quotes interesting. I have carefully selected them so you could ponder and strongly cogitate on them. Give it some kind of deep thinking. Make sure it penetrates into your subconcious and I promise you guaranteed change. For more articles on procrastination and how to overcome it - www.procrastinationstop.blogspot.com
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