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

Erica Jong

Stichwörter: fear procrastination judgement



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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

Stichwörter: procrastination royal-family



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If you are always saying I'll do it to tomorrow, than your tomorrow will than turn into another day and so on, and so, etc. etc.

Victoria Addino

Stichwörter: procrastination lack-of-motivation lazyness



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But with regard to critical occasions, it often happens that all moments seem comfortably remote until the last.

George Eliot

Stichwörter: procrastination



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Have more than one idea on the go at any one time. If it's a choice between writing a book and doing nothing I will always choose the latter. It's only if I have an idea for two books that I choose one rather than the other. I ­always have to feel that I'm bunking off from something.

Geoff Dyer

Stichwörter: writing procrastination ideas choices



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If you get stuck, get away from your desk. Take a walk, take a bath, go to sleep, make a pie, draw, listen to ­music, meditate, exercise; whatever you do, don't just stick there scowling at the problem. But don't make telephone calls or go to a party; if you do, other people's words will pour in where your lost words should be. Open a gap for them, create a space. Be patient.

Hilary Mantel

Stichwörter: inspiration procrastination creativity openness distraction writers-block problem-solving



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Procrastination is also a subtle act of corruption – it corrupts valuable time

Amit Abraham

Stichwörter: procrastination time corruption



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A procrastinators willpower lies in the fact that he keeps work pending because he strongly feels he wants to do the same – keep it pending.

Amit Abraham

Stichwörter: procrastination procrastinate willpower procrastinator



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Do you write every day?'

'Oh, no. Oh, I sort of try. I don't work very hard, really. Really I'm on vacation. All the time. Or you could say I work all the time, too. It comes to the same thing.' He'd said all this before, to others; he wondered if he'd said it to her. 'It's like weekend homework. Remember? There wasn't ever a time you absolutely had to do it - there was always Saturday, then Sunday - but then there wasn't ever a time when it wasn't there to do, too.'

'How awful.' ("Novelty")

John Crowley

Stichwörter: writing writers procrastination



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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 himself about to say again, and unable to resist saying, that 'Dumas, I think it was Dumas, some terrifically prolific Frenchman, said that writing novels is a simple matter - if you write one page a day, you'll write one novel a year, two pages a day, two novels a year, three pages, three novels, and so on. And how long does it take to cover a page with writing? Twenty minutes? An hour? So you see. Very easy really.'

'I don't know,' she said, laughing. 'I can't even bring myself to write a letter.'

'Oh, now that's hard.'
("Novelty")

John Crowley

Stichwörter: writing writers procrastination novel discipline



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