Quotable Quotes

Time - Procrastination, Perfectionism, Planning

For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work.

- Doug Larson

Time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow.

- Denis Waitely

I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once.

- Jennifer Yane

Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging of an uncompleted task.

- William James

If "Procrastination is the thief of time" (Edward Young) then...
Perfectionism is the embezzler - passing itself off as working productively whilst secretly robbing you blind.

- Michaela Thomas, Aequilibra

If it weren't for the last minute, I wouldn't get anything done.

- Author Unknown

The best way to get something done is to begin.

- Author Unknown

Tomorrow may never come but deadlines have an uncanny knack of materialising.

- Michaela Thomas, Aequilibra

The most difficult part of attaining perfection is finding something to do for an encore.

- Author Unknown

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

- Carl Sandburg

Parkinson's Law: Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

No one is perfect... that's why pencils have erasers.

- Author Unknown

El tiempo da buen consejo (time will tell).

- Spanish Proverb

Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.

- John Archibald Wheeler

Someday is not a day of the week.

- Author Unknown

A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.

- John Henry Newman

If you don't want to do something, one excuse is as good as another.

- Yiddish Proverb

To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.

- Eva Young

It has been left to our generation to discover that you can move heaven and earth to save five minutes and then not have the faintest idea what to do with them when you have saved them.

- C.E.M. Joad

Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.

- Spanish Proverb

Only Robinson Crusoe had everything done by Friday.

- Author Unknown

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