“Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.”

— William James

To Carl Stumpf (1 January 1886)
1920s, The Letters of William James (1920)
Variant: Procrastination is attitude's natural assassin. There's nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task

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American philosopher, psychologist, and pragmatist 1842–1910

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