"When duty calls me, I'm prepared
As though our goals were aimed and shared.
I draw my breath in, shoulders straight,
And quietly procrastinate. (Alison W. Birch)

Tags: Procrastination, Quotes, deadlines, delaying, motivation, production, writing

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LOL! Love that! Thanks, Terri!

"If you wait all that happens is you get older." Larry McMurtry "Some can Whistle"


"I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it." Sam Goldwyn

Just read this one -- good one!

YEP! Someone finally got around to telling it like it is.

"I think of myself as something of a connoisseur of procrastination, creative and dogged in my approach to not getting things done."    - Susan Orlean

Yep!

"...my evil genius, Procrastination, has whispered me to tarry til a more convenient season..."

Mary Todd Lincoln in a letter to Mercy Ann Levering 1941

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