"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning."
Albert Einstein
Time is nothing but a facetious idea. A moment in time is an experience & each person has an individual experience of any given moment - even time is subject to perception… so to consider the issue & ramifications of procrastination we need consider standards of priority, ethics & productivity in a context of personal perception...
"I'd be frightened by not using whatever abilities I'd been given. I'd be more frightened by procrastination and laziness."
Denzel Washington
Denzel Washington
procrastinate |prə(ʊ)ˈkrastɪneɪt|
verb [ intrans. ]
delay or postpone action; put off doing something : it won't be this price for long, so don't procrastinate.
verb [ intrans. ]
delay or postpone action; put off doing something : it won't be this price for long, so don't procrastinate.
DERIVATIVES
procrastination |-ˈneɪʃ(ə)n| noun
procrastinator noun
procrastinatory adjective
ORIGIN late 16th cent.: from Latin procrastinat- ‘deferred until tomorrow,’ from the verb procrastinare, from pro- ‘forward’ + crastinus ‘belonging to tomorrow’ (from cras ‘tomorrow’ ).
"Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today."
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today."
Abraham Lincoln