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I've always been a procrastinator. -- Kris Allen
The procrastinator dreads beginning, the workaholic, ending. -- James Richardson
I'm a procrastinator. That's a pretty bad habit. -- Justin Deeley
A procrastinator is a thief of his or her own time. -- Jhoon Goo Rhee
I am a great procrastinator. When the writing is going really well, the laundry piles up. -- Dana Spiotta
My friend Winnie is a procrastinator. He didn't get his birth mark til he was eight years old. -- Steven Wright
The procrastinator is not only indolent and weak, but commonly, false, too; most of the weak are false. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
While procrastinating is not a flaw, being a structured procrastinator is actually one way of being pretty productive. -- John Perry
I ... practiced all the arts of apology, evasion, and invisibility, to which procrastinators must sooner or later be reduced. -- Maria Edgeworth
The problem is I am both a procrastinator and a power junkie, so I am very frustrating to work with. -- Alton Brown
I was surprised by how many people think of themselves as procrastinators, but, like me, seem to get a lot done anyway. -- John Perry
I'm really not one of these procrastinators who cleans the house in order to put off writing, but life gets in the way. -- Emma Donoghue
I had a terrible fight with my wife on New Year's Eve. She called me a procrastinator. So I finished addressing the Christmas cards and left. -- Robert Orben
Over the years, I developed a theory about why writers are such procrastinators: We were too good in English class. This sounds crazy, but hear me out. -- Megan McArdle
I wonder if I would have been capable of producing anything if I worked in a more conventional way with a prewritten script, because I'm of the procrastinator class. -- Mike Leigh
The essence is that many procrastinators are "structured procrastinators," people who, like me, get a lot done as a way of not working on what they should ideally be working on. -- John Perry
The fantasy of doing a task perfectly is common with procrastinators; they set the bar for success very high. Then they are afraid to approach it. As the deadline approaches, they must set the bar lower. -- John Perry
Lack of confidence, sometimes alternating with unrealistic dreams of heroic success, often leads to procrastination, and many studies suggest that procrastinators are self-handicappers: rather than risk failure, they prefer to create conditions that make success impossible, a reflex that of course creates a vicious cycle. -- James Surowiecki
Kools and Newports were for black people and lower-class whites. Camels were for procrastinators, those who wrote bad poetry, and those who put off writing bad poetry. Merits were for sex addicts, Salems were for alcoholics, and Mores were for people who considered themselves to be outrageous but really weren't. -- David Sedaris
Nothing focuses attention like a real deadline. If you are in a field where life and death, or having a job or not having a job, depends on not missing deadlines, you need to learn to manipulate yourself to meet them; often a good way of doing this is teaming up with non-procrastinators. -- John Perry
Dear Procrastinator: Taking action in and of itself is not difficult, but is in fact satisfying and is usually followed by a sense of pride & accomplishment. However, it is THINKING about the action that you should be taking and NOT taking it that's difficult, as it leaves you feeling guilty and unsatisfied. THE SOLUTION: Stop thinking and take action NOW. -- Hal Elrod
I was a good student, but I was the biggest procrastinator. -- Shelley Hennig
In high school, I was the biggest procrastinator in the world. -- Kristin Kreuk
I'm a terrible procrastinator. When we go to the airport, if they're not literally closing the door behind my sweaty, hyperventilating body, I feel I've been there too long. -- Greg Kinnear

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