Anthony Burgess Quotes

Procrastinate now, don't put it off.

Postponement: The father of failure.

My life is a monument to procrastination, to the art of putting things off until later, or much later, or possibly never.

It seems unpleasantly refined to put things off till someone knows.

If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.

There is only so much that you can kick the can down the road.

Later is always my first choice.

Delay is the deadliest form of denial.

One of the things I'm really good at is procrastinating.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.

The most life destroying word of all is the word tomorrow.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can put off till the day after tomorrow. Like a variant of the song, Tomorrow, only it's more of the idea, the Mexican idea of mañana, you know, [singing] mañana, mañana, I love you, mañana, you're always a day away.

Most people put off till tomorrow that which they should have done yesterday.

It seemed better to delay thinking.

Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.

There is no avoidance in delay.

Sometimes, there is no harm in putting off a piece of work until another day.

Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement.

I often work by avoidance.

I'm so good at procrastinating.

If I don't get you now, I'll get you later.

To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead.

I can procrastinate a little bit.

Delays in or avoidance of decision making was chronic.

Do it tomorrow; you’ve made enough mistakes today.