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"Procrastination threatens critics' livelihood."

"Every morning I tell myself, "I'll sleep early tonight." And every night I say, "One more chapter."

"Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder."

"The scholar's greatest weakness: calling procrastination research."

"One of the 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."

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

"We cannot put off the difficult decisions for another day, another generation."

"Why work today? I'll take Tuesday on, just like I took Monday off. That's just the kind of dedicated worker I am."

"The problem with a lot of people is that they procrastinate as if tomorrow doesn't have some tasks of its own."

"WE MAY FEEL...BUT WE DON'TWe may feel the need to change employment, but we don't.We may feel the need to start a specific project, but we don't.We may feel the need to pursue higher education, but we don'tWe may feel the need to heal a broken relationship, but we don't.We may feel the need to work to improve our spiritual lives, but we don't.We may feel the need to take steps toward a healthier physical or emotional life for ourselves and/or our family, but again, we don't.(This list could likely go on for eternity.)The desire for progression is innate, but the problem we face is that the actual act of progression is also a choice.Without embracing our inherent need for progress, for positive growth and/or change, we'll still go on living....But at what cost?"
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"Depend upon it you see but half. You see the evil, but you do not see the consolation. There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better; we find comfort somewhere- and those evil-minded observers, dearest Mary, who make much of a little, are more taken in and deceived than the parties themselves."

"Oh!" cried Anne eagerly, "I hope I do justice to all that is felt by you,and by those who resemble you. God forbid that I should undervaluethe warm and faithful feelings of any of my fellow-creatures! I should deserve utter contempt if I dared to suppose that true attachmentand constancy were known only by woman. No, I believe you capableof everything great and good in your married lives. I believe you equalto every important exertion, and to every domestic forbearance,so long as-if I may be allowed the expression-so long as you havean object. I mean while the woman you love lives, and lives for you. All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one;you need not covet it), is that of loving longest, when existenceor when hope is gone."

"But one never does form a just idea of anybody beforehand. One takes up a notion and runs away with it."

"They were rather handsome, had been educated in one of the first private seminaries in town."

"Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation."

"He had just compunction enough for having done nothing for his sisters himself, to be exceedingly anxious that everybody else should do a great deal."
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