Hope provides comfort, and hope does not always require probability.

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.

Voltaire was a smart cookie.

I was surprised by how many people think of themselves as procrastinators, but, like me, seem to get a lot done anyway.

You may lack will power, but that doesn't mean you can't take a lot of steps to make yourself more productive.

Taking a long time to do something not worth doing, that is, doing it inefficiently, seems even more useless.

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.