ProcrastinationWord for the Wise March 06, 2007 Broadcast Topic: Procrastination With National Procrastination Week well underway (we're exaggerating a bit; today is only the second day), we're refusing to put off (any longer) a look at words familiar to those fond of putting off til tomorrow what they could have done yesterday.
(来源：2HZZ常识网 http://www.
2hzz.
com) Procrastinate implies blameworthy delay, especially through laziness or apathy, while delay implies a putting off, as of a beginning or departure, without any connotation of blame.
To put off can mean to hold back to a later time; it can mean to induce to wait; and it can mean to disconcert or repel.
As disconcerting or repellent as some folks find procrastination, its existence has inspired a wise word or two.
Roman statesman Seneca pointed out It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
American philosopher William James urged folks to action with this practical advice: Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an unfinished task.
And the prolific British author J.
R.
R.
Tolkien pushed on with these words: It's a job that's never started that takes the longest to finish.