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.

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

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.

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

While procrastinating is not a flaw, being a structured procrastinator is actually one way of being pretty productive.

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.