“Focusing on smaller, progressive parts of the work also eliminates the tendency to sit on your ass and dream indefinitely.”— Ryan Holiday, amazon.com
“'Do you have any productivity tips?' Yeah. So first, procrastinate for a while. Longer... longer... wait until you feel that sour panic-adrenaline in the back of your throat and then GO GO GO GO GO GO GO! That's a terrible productivity tip, but it's the only one I have.”— John Green, youtube.com
“Great leaders catch and correct problems while they’re still small and able to be managed without a lot of hassle. If ignored too long, small problems will morph into much bigger issues that will require more time and effort and at a high cost, causing a great deal of disruption and stress”— Beth Ramsay, amazon.com
“Here's the self-defeating reasoning behind procrastination: 'I'm not going to do what I need to do. Instead I am going to try to distract myself from dreadful feelings, which are now growing inside me because I'm not doing what I need to do.' When you stop and put procrastination into words, you rea…”— Tommy Rosen, amazon.com
“Imagine what your life would be like if you were completely uninhibited by fear, pride, or procrastination. What would you be capable of? Anything.”— Richie Norton, amazon.com
“Resolve to work ahead. Buy birthday presents earlier, fill out school forms the day they arrive, and stop waiting until the last second.”— Real Simple, realsimple.com
“My advice is, never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.”— Charles Dickens, amazon.com
“He keeps putting off the day when he gets his things back. A good rule of thumb is that it's only really over when he picks up his own stuff. He's putting it off so he can have an excuse to talk to you later, or because he feels you two will end up together again.”— Ossiana Tepfenhart, yourtango.com
“Procrastination has taught me how to do 30 minutes of work in 8 hours and 8 hours of work in 30 minutes.”— Soft Grung, twitter.com
“The Oscar nominations come out tomorrow morning. Damn, I really need to finish counting all these ballots..! #Oscars #procrastination”— Neil Patrick Harris, twitter.com