“When we procrastinate, we also put a hold on happiness.” -Charles F. Glassman: “Brain Drain: The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life” (2009)
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the rest of the article, or click or tap on these words to read “Fun and Learning about Happiness” gathered by David Hugh Beaumont.
“I am a multi-tasking procrastinator . . . I can put off all kinds of things at once.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the rest of the article, or click or tap on these words to read “Beaumont’s Quotations” by David Hugh Beaumont.
“A task left undone remains undone in two places - at the actual location of the task, and inside your head. Incomplete tasks in your head consume the energy of your attention as they gnaw at your conscience.” -Brahma Kumaris
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the rest of the article, or click or tap on these words to read “Fun and Learning about Minds and Thinking” gathered by David Hugh Beaumont.
“You may delay, but Time will not.” -Benjamin Franklin (Benjamin ‘Ben’ Franklin (1706 - 1790)): “Poor Richard’s Almanack” (1758)
They said ‘procrastination’ was
The source of all my sorrow.
I don’t know what that big word means -
I’ll look it up tomorrow.
-Author Unknown
Procrastination, noun: the act of delaying or postponing something.
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the rest of the article, or click or tap on these words to read “Fun and Learning about Daffynitions and Definitions” gathered by David Hugh Beaumont.
Earl: Can you give me the definition of procrastination?
Lee: I will do it later.
Earl: You are right!
procrastination is the
art of keeping
up with yesterday
-Don Marquis (Donald Robert Perry ‘Don’ Marquis (1878 - 1937)): “the lives and times of archy & mehitabel” (1940), using lower case letters and no punctuation, in the style of the fictional writer character he created
“In delay there lies no plenty.” -William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
“Procrastination is not laziness,” I tell him. “It is fear. Call it by its right name, and forgive yourself.” -Julia Cameron (Julia B. Cameron (born 1948)): “The Prosperous Heart” (2012)
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the rest of the article, or click or tap on these words to read “Fun and Learning about Idleness and Industriousness” gathered by David Hugh Beaumont.
“It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the master work. Now, I’m beginning what I could have started ten years ago. But I’m happy at least that I didn’t wait twenty years.” -Paulo Coelho (born 1947)
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the rest of the article, or click or tap on these words to read “Fun and Learning about Failures and Successes” gathered by David Hugh Beaumont.
“Join the circus of chaos . . . juggling, stilt walking, and other skills for socially acceptable procrastination.” -Pat Murphy (Patrice Ann ‘Pat’ Murphy (born 1955))
“Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.” -Napoleon Hill (Oliver Napoleon ‘Napoleon’ Hill (1883 - 1970))
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the rest of the article, or click or tap on these words to read “Fun and Learning about Napoleon Hill” gathered by David Hugh Beaumont.
“Putting off an easy thing makes it hard. Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.” -George Claude Lorimer (1838 - 1904): as quoted in George Horace Lorimer (1867 - 1937): “Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son” (1902), ‘June 25, 189-,’ page 48
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the rest of the article, or click or tap on these words to read “Fun and Learning about Impossible and Possible” gathered by David Hugh Beaumont.
“While we are postponing, life speeds by.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca (also known as Seneca the Younger (3 B.C.E. - C.E. 65))
“I have spent my days stringing and unstringing my instrument, while the song I came to sing remains unsung.” -Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941)
“You can’t get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good.” -Jerry Alan West (Jerome ‘Jerry’ Alan West (born 1938))
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the rest of the article, or click or tap on these words to read “Fun and Learning about Doctors and Health Practitioners” gathered by David Hugh Beaumont.
“Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder.” -Mason Cooley (1927 - 2002)
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the rest of the article, or click or tap on these words to read “Fun and Learning about Difficulty and Ease” gathered by David Hugh Beaumont.
Overheard: I bought a book titled “How to Stop Procrastinating,” and I have promised myself that someday, I am going to actually read it.
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the rest of the article, or click or tap on these words to read “Fun and Learning about Reading and Books” gathered by David Hugh Beaumont.
“Do not put your work off till tomorrow and the day after; for a sluggish worker does not fill his barn.” -Hesiod (about 800 B.C.E. - about 720 B.C.E.)
“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.” -Stephen King (Stephen Edwin King (born 1947))
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the rest of the article, or click or tap on these words to read “Fun and Learning about Employment and Work” gathered by David Hugh Beaumont.
“The dread of doing a task uses up more time and energy than doing the task itself.” -Rita Emmett (1943 - 2019)
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the rest of the article, or click or tap on these words to read “Fun and Learning about Attitudes and Expectations” gathered by David Hugh Beaumont.
“Things dreaded require double time to accomplish them.” -James Lendall Basford (1845 - 1915)
“If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.” -Ivan Turgenev (Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (1818 - 1883))
“Begin while others are procrastinating. Work while others are wishing.” -William A. Ward (William Arthur Ward (1921 - 1994))
“KISS Procrastination Away: Keep It Super Simple, Keep It Step-by-Step, Keep It Scheduled and Systematic.” -Lisa A. Mininni (Lisa Ann Mininni (born 1954))
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the rest of the article, or click or tap on these words to read “Fun and Learning about Abbreviations and Acronyms” gathered by David Hugh Beaumont.
“How soon ‘not now’ becomes ‘never’.” -Martin Luther (1483 - 1546)
“Doing just a little bit during the time we have available puts you that much further ahead than if you took no action at all.” -Byron Pulsifer (Byron R. Pulsifer) at https://www.QuotesChristian.com
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” -Anne Frank (Annelies Marie ‘Anne’ Frank (1929 - 1945)): “The Diary of a Young Girl” (1952)
Lose This Day Loitering
Lose this day loitering - ’twill be the same story
To-morrow - and the next more dilatory;
Each indecision brings its own delays,
And days are lost lamenting o’er lost days,
Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute -
Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
Only engage, and then the mind grows heated -
Begin it, and then the work will be completed!
by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749 - 1832): “Faust,” Part 1 (1808) and Part 2 (1832)
Overheard: Some tasks have to be put off dozens of times before they will completely slip your mind.
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the rest of the article, or click or tap on these words to read “Fun and Learning about Memory and Memories” gathered by David Hugh Beaumont.
“Things don’t get any easier by putting them off.” -W. Somerset Maugham (William Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)): “The Razor’s Edge” (1943)
Shun delays, they breed remorse;
Take thy time while time is lent thee;
Creeping snails have weakest force,
Fly their fault lest thou repent thee.
Good is best when soonest wrought,
Linger’d labours come to nought.
-Robert Southwell (1561 - 1595): “Loss in Delay”; as quoted in William B. Turnbull, editor: “The Poetical Works of the Rev. Robert Southwell” (1856)
“I’m very busy doing things I don’t need to do in order to avoid anything I’m actually supposed to be doing.” -Author Unknown
“Do you know what happens when you give a procrastinator a good idea? Nothing!” -Donald Gardner
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the rest of the article, or click or tap on these words to read “Fun and Learning about Creativity and Innovation” gathered by David Hugh Beaumont.
“Waiting to develop courage is just another form of procrastination. We must take action while we’re afraid.” -Author Unknown
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the rest of the article, or click or tap on these words to read “Fun and Learning about Fears and Courage” gathered by David Hugh Beaumont.
“A procrastinator’s work is never done.” -Author Unknown
“Getting an idea should be like sitting on a pin; it should make you jump up and do something.” -E. L. Simpson
“Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.” -Thomas Draxe (birth year unknown - 1618): “Adages” (1616)
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the rest of the article, or click or tap on these words to read “Fun and Learning about Today and the Present” gathered by David Hugh Beaumont.
“Remember, action today can prevent a crisis tomorrow.” -Steve Shallenberger (Steven R. Shallenberger (born 1958)): “Becoming Your Best: The 12 Principles of Highly Successful Leaders” (2014)
“What is deferred is not avoided.” -Thomas More (1478 - 1535): “Utopia” (1516)
Procrastination is the thief of time:
Year after year it steals, till all are fled,
And to the mercies of a moment leaves
The vast concerns of an eternal scene.
-Edward Young (1683 - 1765): “Night Thoughts” (1742 - 1745), line 393
“Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.” -Charles Dickens (Charles John Huffam Dickens (1812 - 1870))
“Procrastination is a road-block in the path of success.” -Author Unknown
“The habit of always putting off an experience until you can afford it, or until the time is right, or until you know how to do it, is one of the greatest burglars of joy. Be deliberate, but once you’ve made up your mind - jump in.” -Charles R. Swindoll (Charles Rozell ‘Chuck’ Swindoll (born 1934)): “Living on the Ragged Edge” (1985), page 110
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the rest of the article, or click or tap on these words to read “Fun and Learning about Waiting and Patience” gathered by David Hugh Beaumont.
“Often greater risk is involved in postponement than in making a wrong decision.” -Harry A. Hopf (Harry Arthur Hopf (1882 - 1949))
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the rest of the article, or click or tap on these words to read “Fun and Learning about Risks and Rewards” gathered by David Hugh Beaumont.
“Procrastination is something best put off until tomorrow.” -Gerald Vaughan
“One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon - instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.” -Dale Carnegie (Dale Harbison Carnegie (born Dale Breckenridge Carnagey (1888 - 1955))): “How to Stop Worrying and Start Living” (1948)
“I’m going to stop putting things off, starting tomorrow!” -Sam Levenson (Samuel ‘Sam’ Levenson (1911 - 1980))
“What may be done at any Time will be done at no Time.” -Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734): “Gnomologia: Adages and Proverbs” (1732), number 5500
“Procrastination is a teardrop in the sands of time.” -Heath Byers
“One of these days is none of these days.” -H. G. Bohn (Henry George Bohn (1796 - 1884))
“Every duty which is bidden to wait, returns with seven fresh duties at its back.” -Charles Kingsley (1819 - 1875): “Sermons for the Times” (1855)
“It has been a productive day - I got a lot of procrastinating accomplished.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“The man who will not act until he knows all will never act at all . . .” -Jim Elliot (1927 - 1956)
“Procrastination usually results in sorrowful regret. Today’s duties put off until tomorrow give us a double burden to bear; the best way is to do them in their proper time.” -Ida Scott Taylor (Ida Scott Taylor McKinney (1855 - 1932))
“The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.” -Richard Cushing (Richard James Cushing (1895 - 1970))
“There are those of us who are always about to live. We are waiting until things change, until there is more time, until we are less tired, until we get a promotion, until we settle down - until, until, until. It always seems as if there is some major event that must occur in our lives before we begin living.” -George Sheehan (1918 - 1993)
“One day you will wake up and there won’t be any more time to do the things you’ve always wanted. Do it now.” -Paulo Coelho (born 1947)
Defer not till to-morrow to be wise,
To-morrow’s Sun to thee may never rise.
-William Congreve (1670 - 1729): “Letter to Cobham,” line 61
“Postpone not a good action.” -Author Unknown: Irish proverb
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the rest of the article, or click or tap on these words to read “Fun and Learning about Ireland” gathered by David Hugh Beaumont.
“If you put off everything till you’re sure of it, you’ll get nothing done.” -Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993): as quoted in Jerald Greenberg and Robert A. Baron: “Behavior in Organizations: Understanding & Managing the Human Side of Work” (1995), page 371
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the rest of the article, or click or tap on these words to read “Fun and Learning about Norman Vincent Peale” gathered by David Hugh Beaumont.
All the Woulda-Coulda-Shouldas
Layin’ in the Sun,
Talkin’ bout the things
They woulda-coulda-shoulda done . . .
But those Woulda-Coulda-Shouldas
All ran away and hid
From one little did.
-Shel Silverstein (Sheldon Allan ‘Shel’ Silverstein (1930 - 1999)): “Falling Up” (1996)
“I don’t wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.” -Pearl S. Buck (Pearl Sydenstricker Buck (1892 - 1973))
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the rest of the article, or click or tap on these words to read “Fun and Learning about Emotions and Feelings” gathered by David Hugh Beaumont.
“Someday is not a day of the week.” -Janet Dailey (Janet Anne Haradon Dailey (1944 - 2013))
Knock, knock.
Who’s there?
Butter.
Butter, who?
Butter late than never!
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the rest of the article, or click or tap on these words to read “Fun and Learning about Knock-Knock Jokes” gathered by David Hugh Beaumont.
“Don’t put off for tomorrow what you should do today.” -Aesop: “The Grasshopper and the Ants” (about 6th century B.C.E.)
“By one delay after another they spin out their whole lives, till there’s no more future left for them.” -Roger L’Estrange (1616 - 1704)
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the rest of the article, or click or tap on these words to read “Fun and Learning about the Future and Predictions” gathered by David Hugh Beaumont.
“He who hesitates is last.” -Mae West
“If you have goals and procrastination, you have nothing. If you have goals and you take action, you will have anything you want.” -Thomas J. Vilord (Thomas Joseph Vilord (born 1975))
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the rest of the article, or click or tap on these words to read “Fun and Learning about Goals and Planning” gathered by David Hugh Beaumont.
“By the street of By-and-By, one arrives at the House of Never.” -Miguel de Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547 - 1616)): “Don Quixote” (1605)
“A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.” -Hunter S. Thompson (Hunter Stockton Thompson (1937 - 2005)): “The Proud Highway” (1997)
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the rest of the article, or click or tap on these words to read “Fun and Learning about Personal Destiny” gathered by David Hugh Beaumont.
“If and When were planted, and Nothing grew.” -Catherine Pulsifer (born 1927): “If and When” at https://www.QuotesChristian.com
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the rest of the article, or click or tap on these words to read “Fun and Learning about Gardens and Gardening” gathered by David Hugh Beaumont.
“There is no avoidance in delay.” -Aeschylus (about 525 B.C.E. - about 456 B.C.E.): “Agamemnon” (about 458 B.C.E.)
“Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn’t the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.” -Robert Benchley (Robert Charles Benchley (1889 - 1945)): as quoted in Robert E. Drennan, editor: “The Algonquin Wits” (1968)
“If it weren’t for the last minute, nothing would get done.” -Rita Mae Brown (born 1944)
Overheard: I am just waiting to do my work at the last minute, because by then I will be older and wiser.
“Procrastination can lead to undue stress! Do it, finish it, and have less stress in your life!” -Catherine Pulsifer (born 1927) at https://www.QuotesChristian.com
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the rest of the article, or click or tap on these words to read “Fun and Learning about Stress and Anxiety” gathered by David Hugh Beaumont.
“The really happy people are those who have broken the chains of procrastination, those who find satisfaction in doing the job at hand. They’re full of eagerness, zest, productivity. You can be, too.” -Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)
“Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand and melting like a snowflake. Let us use it before it is too late.” -Marie Beynon Ray (1886 - 1969)
“Let’s get started while we’re still young!” -Author Unknown: words said by a man who was seventy-five years of age
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the rest of the article, or click or tap on these words to read “Fun and Learning about Pessimism and Optimism” gathered by David Hugh Beaumont.
We are MFOL! . . . by making ‘someday’ into ‘today,’ we can make the future better than the present . . .
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the rest of the article, or click or tap on these words to read “Fun and Learning about Happiness” gathered by David Hugh Beaumont.
“I am a multi-tasking procrastinator . . . I can put off all kinds of things at once.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the rest of the article, or click or tap on these words to read “Beaumont’s Quotations” by David Hugh Beaumont.
“A task left undone remains undone in two places - at the actual location of the task, and inside your head. Incomplete tasks in your head consume the energy of your attention as they gnaw at your conscience.” -Brahma Kumaris
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the rest of the article, or click or tap on these words to read “Fun and Learning about Minds and Thinking” gathered by David Hugh Beaumont.
“You may delay, but Time will not.” -Benjamin Franklin (Benjamin ‘Ben’ Franklin (1706 - 1790)): “Poor Richard’s Almanack” (1758)
They said ‘procrastination’ was
The source of all my sorrow.
I don’t know what that big word means -
I’ll look it up tomorrow.
-Author Unknown
Procrastination, noun: the act of delaying or postponing something.
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the rest of the article, or click or tap on these words to read “Fun and Learning about Daffynitions and Definitions” gathered by David Hugh Beaumont.
Earl: Can you give me the definition of procrastination?
Lee: I will do it later.
Earl: You are right!
procrastination is the
art of keeping
up with yesterday
-Don Marquis (Donald Robert Perry ‘Don’ Marquis (1878 - 1937)): “the lives and times of archy & mehitabel” (1940), using lower case letters and no punctuation, in the style of the fictional writer character he created
“In delay there lies no plenty.” -William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
“Procrastination is not laziness,” I tell him. “It is fear. Call it by its right name, and forgive yourself.” -Julia Cameron (Julia B. Cameron (born 1948)): “The Prosperous Heart” (2012)
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the rest of the article, or click or tap on these words to read “Fun and Learning about Idleness and Industriousness” gathered by David Hugh Beaumont.
“It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the master work. Now, I’m beginning what I could have started ten years ago. But I’m happy at least that I didn’t wait twenty years.” -Paulo Coelho (born 1947)
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the rest of the article, or click or tap on these words to read “Fun and Learning about Failures and Successes” gathered by David Hugh Beaumont.
“Join the circus of chaos . . . juggling, stilt walking, and other skills for socially acceptable procrastination.” -Pat Murphy (Patrice Ann ‘Pat’ Murphy (born 1955))
“Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.” -Napoleon Hill (Oliver Napoleon ‘Napoleon’ Hill (1883 - 1970))
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the rest of the article, or click or tap on these words to read “Fun and Learning about Napoleon Hill” gathered by David Hugh Beaumont.
“Putting off an easy thing makes it hard. Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.” -George Claude Lorimer (1838 - 1904): as quoted in George Horace Lorimer (1867 - 1937): “Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son” (1902), ‘June 25, 189-,’ page 48
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the rest of the article, or click or tap on these words to read “Fun and Learning about Impossible and Possible” gathered by David Hugh Beaumont.
“While we are postponing, life speeds by.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca (also known as Seneca the Younger (3 B.C.E. - C.E. 65))
“I have spent my days stringing and unstringing my instrument, while the song I came to sing remains unsung.” -Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941)
“You can’t get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good.” -Jerry Alan West (Jerome ‘Jerry’ Alan West (born 1938))
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the rest of the article, or click or tap on these words to read “Fun and Learning about Doctors and Health Practitioners” gathered by David Hugh Beaumont.
“Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder.” -Mason Cooley (1927 - 2002)
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the rest of the article, or click or tap on these words to read “Fun and Learning about Difficulty and Ease” gathered by David Hugh Beaumont.
Overheard: I bought a book titled “How to Stop Procrastinating,” and I have promised myself that someday, I am going to actually read it.
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the rest of the article, or click or tap on these words to read “Fun and Learning about Reading and Books” gathered by David Hugh Beaumont.
“Do not put your work off till tomorrow and the day after; for a sluggish worker does not fill his barn.” -Hesiod (about 800 B.C.E. - about 720 B.C.E.)
“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.” -Stephen King (Stephen Edwin King (born 1947))
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the rest of the article, or click or tap on these words to read “Fun and Learning about Employment and Work” gathered by David Hugh Beaumont.
“The dread of doing a task uses up more time and energy than doing the task itself.” -Rita Emmett (1943 - 2019)
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the rest of the article, or click or tap on these words to read “Fun and Learning about Attitudes and Expectations” gathered by David Hugh Beaumont.
“Things dreaded require double time to accomplish them.” -James Lendall Basford (1845 - 1915)
“If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.” -Ivan Turgenev (Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (1818 - 1883))
“Begin while others are procrastinating. Work while others are wishing.” -William A. Ward (William Arthur Ward (1921 - 1994))
“KISS Procrastination Away: Keep It Super Simple, Keep It Step-by-Step, Keep It Scheduled and Systematic.” -Lisa A. Mininni (Lisa Ann Mininni (born 1954))
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the rest of the article, or click or tap on these words to read “Fun and Learning about Abbreviations and Acronyms” gathered by David Hugh Beaumont.
“How soon ‘not now’ becomes ‘never’.” -Martin Luther (1483 - 1546)
“Doing just a little bit during the time we have available puts you that much further ahead than if you took no action at all.” -Byron Pulsifer (Byron R. Pulsifer) at https://www.QuotesChristian.com
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” -Anne Frank (Annelies Marie ‘Anne’ Frank (1929 - 1945)): “The Diary of a Young Girl” (1952)
Lose This Day Loitering
Lose this day loitering - ’twill be the same story
To-morrow - and the next more dilatory;
Each indecision brings its own delays,
And days are lost lamenting o’er lost days,
Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute -
Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
Only engage, and then the mind grows heated -
Begin it, and then the work will be completed!
by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749 - 1832): “Faust,” Part 1 (1808) and Part 2 (1832)
Overheard: Some tasks have to be put off dozens of times before they will completely slip your mind.
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the rest of the article, or click or tap on these words to read “Fun and Learning about Memory and Memories” gathered by David Hugh Beaumont.
“Things don’t get any easier by putting them off.” -W. Somerset Maugham (William Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)): “The Razor’s Edge” (1943)
Shun delays, they breed remorse;
Take thy time while time is lent thee;
Creeping snails have weakest force,
Fly their fault lest thou repent thee.
Good is best when soonest wrought,
Linger’d labours come to nought.
-Robert Southwell (1561 - 1595): “Loss in Delay”; as quoted in William B. Turnbull, editor: “The Poetical Works of the Rev. Robert Southwell” (1856)
“I’m very busy doing things I don’t need to do in order to avoid anything I’m actually supposed to be doing.” -Author Unknown
“Do you know what happens when you give a procrastinator a good idea? Nothing!” -Donald Gardner
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the rest of the article, or click or tap on these words to read “Fun and Learning about Creativity and Innovation” gathered by David Hugh Beaumont.
“Waiting to develop courage is just another form of procrastination. We must take action while we’re afraid.” -Author Unknown
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the rest of the article, or click or tap on these words to read “Fun and Learning about Fears and Courage” gathered by David Hugh Beaumont.
“A procrastinator’s work is never done.” -Author Unknown
“Getting an idea should be like sitting on a pin; it should make you jump up and do something.” -E. L. Simpson
“Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.” -Thomas Draxe (birth year unknown - 1618): “Adages” (1616)
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the rest of the article, or click or tap on these words to read “Fun and Learning about Today and the Present” gathered by David Hugh Beaumont.
“Remember, action today can prevent a crisis tomorrow.” -Steve Shallenberger (Steven R. Shallenberger (born 1958)): “Becoming Your Best: The 12 Principles of Highly Successful Leaders” (2014)
“What is deferred is not avoided.” -Thomas More (1478 - 1535): “Utopia” (1516)
Procrastination is the thief of time:
Year after year it steals, till all are fled,
And to the mercies of a moment leaves
The vast concerns of an eternal scene.
-Edward Young (1683 - 1765): “Night Thoughts” (1742 - 1745), line 393
“Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.” -Charles Dickens (Charles John Huffam Dickens (1812 - 1870))
“Procrastination is a road-block in the path of success.” -Author Unknown
“The habit of always putting off an experience until you can afford it, or until the time is right, or until you know how to do it, is one of the greatest burglars of joy. Be deliberate, but once you’ve made up your mind - jump in.” -Charles R. Swindoll (Charles Rozell ‘Chuck’ Swindoll (born 1934)): “Living on the Ragged Edge” (1985), page 110
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the rest of the article, or click or tap on these words to read “Fun and Learning about Waiting and Patience” gathered by David Hugh Beaumont.
“Often greater risk is involved in postponement than in making a wrong decision.” -Harry A. Hopf (Harry Arthur Hopf (1882 - 1949))
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the rest of the article, or click or tap on these words to read “Fun and Learning about Risks and Rewards” gathered by David Hugh Beaumont.
“Procrastination is something best put off until tomorrow.” -Gerald Vaughan
“One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon - instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.” -Dale Carnegie (Dale Harbison Carnegie (born Dale Breckenridge Carnagey (1888 - 1955))): “How to Stop Worrying and Start Living” (1948)
“I’m going to stop putting things off, starting tomorrow!” -Sam Levenson (Samuel ‘Sam’ Levenson (1911 - 1980))
“What may be done at any Time will be done at no Time.” -Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734): “Gnomologia: Adages and Proverbs” (1732), number 5500
“Procrastination is a teardrop in the sands of time.” -Heath Byers
“One of these days is none of these days.” -H. G. Bohn (Henry George Bohn (1796 - 1884))
“Every duty which is bidden to wait, returns with seven fresh duties at its back.” -Charles Kingsley (1819 - 1875): “Sermons for the Times” (1855)
“It has been a productive day - I got a lot of procrastinating accomplished.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“The man who will not act until he knows all will never act at all . . .” -Jim Elliot (1927 - 1956)
“Procrastination usually results in sorrowful regret. Today’s duties put off until tomorrow give us a double burden to bear; the best way is to do them in their proper time.” -Ida Scott Taylor (Ida Scott Taylor McKinney (1855 - 1932))
“The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.” -Richard Cushing (Richard James Cushing (1895 - 1970))
“There are those of us who are always about to live. We are waiting until things change, until there is more time, until we are less tired, until we get a promotion, until we settle down - until, until, until. It always seems as if there is some major event that must occur in our lives before we begin living.” -George Sheehan (1918 - 1993)
“One day you will wake up and there won’t be any more time to do the things you’ve always wanted. Do it now.” -Paulo Coelho (born 1947)
Defer not till to-morrow to be wise,
To-morrow’s Sun to thee may never rise.
-William Congreve (1670 - 1729): “Letter to Cobham,” line 61
“Postpone not a good action.” -Author Unknown: Irish proverb
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the rest of the article, or click or tap on these words to read “Fun and Learning about Ireland” gathered by David Hugh Beaumont.
“If you put off everything till you’re sure of it, you’ll get nothing done.” -Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993): as quoted in Jerald Greenberg and Robert A. Baron: “Behavior in Organizations: Understanding & Managing the Human Side of Work” (1995), page 371
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the rest of the article, or click or tap on these words to read “Fun and Learning about Norman Vincent Peale” gathered by David Hugh Beaumont.
All the Woulda-Coulda-Shouldas
Layin’ in the Sun,
Talkin’ bout the things
They woulda-coulda-shoulda done . . .
But those Woulda-Coulda-Shouldas
All ran away and hid
From one little did.
-Shel Silverstein (Sheldon Allan ‘Shel’ Silverstein (1930 - 1999)): “Falling Up” (1996)
“I don’t wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.” -Pearl S. Buck (Pearl Sydenstricker Buck (1892 - 1973))
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the rest of the article, or click or tap on these words to read “Fun and Learning about Emotions and Feelings” gathered by David Hugh Beaumont.
“Someday is not a day of the week.” -Janet Dailey (Janet Anne Haradon Dailey (1944 - 2013))
Knock, knock.
Who’s there?
Butter.
Butter, who?
Butter late than never!
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the rest of the article, or click or tap on these words to read “Fun and Learning about Knock-Knock Jokes” gathered by David Hugh Beaumont.
“Don’t put off for tomorrow what you should do today.” -Aesop: “The Grasshopper and the Ants” (about 6th century B.C.E.)
“By one delay after another they spin out their whole lives, till there’s no more future left for them.” -Roger L’Estrange (1616 - 1704)
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the rest of the article, or click or tap on these words to read “Fun and Learning about the Future and Predictions” gathered by David Hugh Beaumont.
“He who hesitates is last.” -Mae West
“If you have goals and procrastination, you have nothing. If you have goals and you take action, you will have anything you want.” -Thomas J. Vilord (Thomas Joseph Vilord (born 1975))
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the rest of the article, or click or tap on these words to read “Fun and Learning about Goals and Planning” gathered by David Hugh Beaumont.
“By the street of By-and-By, one arrives at the House of Never.” -Miguel de Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547 - 1616)): “Don Quixote” (1605)
“A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.” -Hunter S. Thompson (Hunter Stockton Thompson (1937 - 2005)): “The Proud Highway” (1997)
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the rest of the article, or click or tap on these words to read “Fun and Learning about Personal Destiny” gathered by David Hugh Beaumont.
“If and When were planted, and Nothing grew.” -Catherine Pulsifer (born 1927): “If and When” at https://www.QuotesChristian.com
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the rest of the article, or click or tap on these words to read “Fun and Learning about Gardens and Gardening” gathered by David Hugh Beaumont.
“There is no avoidance in delay.” -Aeschylus (about 525 B.C.E. - about 456 B.C.E.): “Agamemnon” (about 458 B.C.E.)
“Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn’t the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.” -Robert Benchley (Robert Charles Benchley (1889 - 1945)): as quoted in Robert E. Drennan, editor: “The Algonquin Wits” (1968)
“If it weren’t for the last minute, nothing would get done.” -Rita Mae Brown (born 1944)
Overheard: I am just waiting to do my work at the last minute, because by then I will be older and wiser.
“Procrastination can lead to undue stress! Do it, finish it, and have less stress in your life!” -Catherine Pulsifer (born 1927) at https://www.QuotesChristian.com
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the rest of the article, or click or tap on these words to read “Fun and Learning about Stress and Anxiety” gathered by David Hugh Beaumont.
“The really happy people are those who have broken the chains of procrastination, those who find satisfaction in doing the job at hand. They’re full of eagerness, zest, productivity. You can be, too.” -Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)
“Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand and melting like a snowflake. Let us use it before it is too late.” -Marie Beynon Ray (1886 - 1969)
“Let’s get started while we’re still young!” -Author Unknown: words said by a man who was seventy-five years of age
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the rest of the article, or click or tap on these words to read “Fun and Learning about Pessimism and Optimism” gathered by David Hugh Beaumont.
We are MFOL! . . . by making ‘someday’ into ‘today,’ we can make the future better than the present . . .
