Lack of confidence, sometimes alternating with unrealistic dreams of heroic success, often leads to procrastination, and many studies suggest that procrastinators are… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
Nothing focuses attention like a real deadline. If you are in a field where life and death, or having a job or… — John Perry Copy Share Image
“The distance between your Dreams and Reality is inversely proportional to your Efforts.” — Vineet Raj Kapoor Copy Share Image
The procrastinator is not only indolent and weak, but commonly, false, too; most of the weak are false. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
“Those who begin things, but never complete them, accomplish nothing.” — Frank Sonnenberg Copy Share Image
I had a terrible fight with my wife on New Year's Eve. She called me a procrastinator. So I finished addressing the… — Robert Orben Copy Share Image
I am a great procrastinator. When the writing is going really well, the laundry piles up. — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
Over the years, I developed a theory about why writers are such procrastinators: We were too good in English class. This sounds… — Megan McArdle Copy Share Image
The essence is that many procrastinators are "structured procrastinators," people who, like me, get a lot done as a way of not… — John Perry Copy Share Image
The fantasy of doing a task perfectly is common with procrastinators; they set the bar for success very high. Then they are… — John Perry Copy Share Image
I was surprised by how many people think of themselves as procrastinators, but, like me, seem to get a lot done anyway. — John Perry Copy Share Image
As a survival-happy species, our successes are calculated in the number of years we have extended our lives, with the reduction of… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
I ... practiced all the arts of apology, evasion, and invisibility, to which procrastinators must sooner or later be reduced. — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
The problem is I am both a procrastinator and a power junkie, so I am very frustrating to work with. — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
While procrastinating is not a flaw, being a structured procrastinator is actually one way of being pretty productive. — John Perry Copy Share Image
Identify the problem.”) I love the late Japanese psychotherapist Shoma Morita's advice to stop trying to fix yourself and start living instead:… — Shoma Morita Copy Share Image
“Indiscipline is the major pillar on which a procrasdemon stands still.” — Neeraj Agnihotri Copy Share Image
You made delay, but time will not, and lost time is never found again. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I'm a terrible procrastinator. When we go to the airport, if they're not literally closing the door behind my sweaty, hyperventilating body,… — Greg Kinnear Copy Share Image
I wonder if I would have been capable of producing anything if I worked in a more conventional way with a prewritten… — Mike Leigh Copy Share Image
Dear Procrastinator: Taking action in and of itself is not difficult, but is in fact satisfying and is usually followed by a… — Hal Elrod Copy Share Image
