Some more quotable gems:
“With this sort of appropriate task structure, the procrastinator becomes a useful citizen."
“The psychological principle is this: anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn’t the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment.”
“set affection against affection, and... master one by another"
"Workers now typically spend a quarter of the day procrastinating, students a third of the day. Men are more likely than women to be chronic procrastinators, especially young men."
“Structured procrastination requires a certain amount of self-deception, because one is in effect constantly perpetrating a pyramid scheme on oneself,”
“Productive procrastination is a bit of make-believe, along the lines of setting your watch five minutes fast,” he told me. “You know you did it, but you still pretend you didn’t."
"If you are among the set of people who cleaned their dorm room the night before exams, it likely will work.”
"It’s certainly a saner strategy than the bromide about never putting off until tomorrow what you can do today."
“The size of your dreams must always exceed your current capacity to achieve them. If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough. If you start off with a small dream, you may not have much left when it is fulfilled because along the way, life will task your dreams and make demands on you.”— President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia"
And the punchline:
Better to follow Dr. Perry’s rewritten version: Never do today any task that may disappear by tomorrow.
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