~Benjamin Franklin, letter to William Carmichael, 1783 December 15th I am too much harassed by a variety of correspondence, together with gout and gravel, which induce me to postpone doing what I often fully intend to do, and particularly writing, where the urgent necessity of business does not seem to require its being done immediately, my sitting too much at the desk having already almost killed me. The psychological principle is this: anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment. Nothing is more expensive than penuriousness nothing is more anxious than carelessness and every duty which is bidden to wait, returns with seven fresh duties at its back. ~Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742–1799), translated by Norman Alliston, 1908įolks who tell you, 'Putting it off won't make it any easier,' presume there's a point where you plan to stop putting it off. I think, however, that even the most active find as much to be sorry for as the laziest for those who do more also see more that might have been done, and see it more clearly. True it is: all men procrastinate and are sorry for it. ~James Lendall Basford (1845–1915), Sparks from the Philosopher's Stone, 1882 Things dreaded require double time to accomplish them. ~Don Marquis, 'certain maxims of archy,' archy and mehitabel, 1927 It is never too late, which is too bad, because it would get an awful lot of people started. ~Eric Hoffer, Reflections on the Human Condition, 1973 Our greatest weariness comes from work not done. Nothing so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task… ~William James, 1886

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