The Science of Overcoming Procrastination Quotes

“In summary, procrastination may arise from problems in each of the nine executive functions—(1) inhibition, (2) self-monitoring, (3) planning and organization, (4) activity shifting, (5) task initiation, (6) task monitoring, (7) emotional control, (8) working memory, and (9) general orderliness.”
― Patrick King, The Science of Overcoming Procrastination: How to Be Disciplined, Break Inertia, Manage Your Time, and Be Productive

“If and When were planted, and Nothing grew.” —Proverb”
― Patrick King, The Science of Overcoming Procrastination: How to Be Disciplined, Break Inertia, Manage Your Time, and Be Productive

“For instance, it tends to be easier for us to picture how frequently eating a load of greasy fast food meals is going to risk our heart health, but it’s harder for us to recognize how not exercising can place us at the same health risk. While we may actively avoid those oily take-out in an attempt to maintain a healthy lifestyle, we aren’t as likely to start an exercise regimen to support that same goal. It just doesn’t have the same psychological impact.”
― Patrick King, The Science of Overcoming Procrastination: How to Be Disciplined, Break Inertia, Manage Your Time, and Be Productive

“what leads us to procrastinate is not just the actual pleasure from those activities, but more importantly, the pleasure we expect to feel in choosing those activities over another. This is the scientific explanation behind procrastination—we anticipate we’re going to feel better doing something else, so we go ahead and do it.”
― Patrick King, The Science of Overcoming Procrastination: How to Be Disciplined, Break Inertia, Manage Your Time, and Be Productive

“It is essentially an act of avoiding discomfort (i.e. the trouble of doing the intended task) and pursuing pleasure instead (i.e. substituting more enjoyable activities, plus the relief of not having to engage in the intended task).”
― Patrick King, The Science of Overcoming Procrastination: How to Be Disciplined, Break Inertia, Manage Your Time, and Be Productive

“The term “procrastination” was derived from the Latin pro, meaning “forward, forth, or in favor of,” and crastinus, meaning “of tomorrow.” Its literal translation can thus be taken to be the moving forward of something to tomorrow, or favoring tomorrow as the ideal time.”
― Patrick King, The Science of Overcoming Procrastination: How to Be Disciplined, Break Inertia, Manage Your Time, and Be Productive

“But unlike your shadow, it’s deadset on ruining your life!”
― Patrick King, The Science of Overcoming Procrastination: How to Be Disciplined, Break Inertia, Manage Your Time, and Be Productive

“It’s like your shadow; you just can’t shake it, it’s always with you, and it’s easy to forget about.”
― Patrick King, The Science of Overcoming Procrastination: How to Be Disciplined, Break Inertia, Manage Your Time, and Be Productive

“Procrastination is opportunity’s assassin.” - Victor Kiam”
― Patrick King, The Science of Overcoming Procrastination: How to Be Disciplined, Break Inertia, Manage Your Time, and Be Productive

“Procrastination is opportunity’s assassin.”
― Patrick King, The Science of Overcoming Procrastination: How to Be Disciplined, Break Inertia, Manage Your Time, and Be Productive

“One of the biggest weapons you have against procrastination is its natural enemy: making tasks almost impossible to skip over in the present moment. We’ll cover that in more detail later.”
― Patrick King, The Science of Overcoming Procrastination: How to Be Disciplined, Break Inertia, Manage Your Time, and Be Productive

“to spur themselves into action, procrastinators have to want to do something.”
― Patrick King, The Science of Overcoming Procrastination: How to Be Disciplined, Break Inertia, Manage Your Time, and Be Productive

“it’s possible that procrastinators are not inherently lazy or useless individuals; rather, they’re simply faced with tasks which do not match their skill levels or personal motivations.”
― Patrick King, The Science of Overcoming Procrastination: How to Be Disciplined, Break Inertia, Manage Your Time, and Be Productive

“The word satisfice is a combination of the words satisfy and suffice. It’s a term that Herbert Simon coined in the 1950s, and it represents what we should shoot for rather than something that is guaranteed to optimize and maximize our happiness.”
― Patrick King, The Science of Overcoming Procrastination: How to Be Disciplined, Break Inertia, Manage Your Time, and Be Productive

“You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” —Martin Luther King, Jr.”
― Patrick King, The Science of Overcoming Procrastination: How to Be Disciplined, Break Inertia, Manage Your Time, and Be Productive

“future selves as we focus on gaining short-term pleasure at the cost of long-term benefits.”
― Patrick King, The Science of Overcoming Procrastination: How to Be Disciplined, Break Inertia, Manage Your Time, and Be Productive

“Right! It turns out there are at least five ways procrastination can actually be useful in certain instances.”
― Patrick King, The Science of Overcoming Procrastination: How to Be Disciplined, Break Inertia, Manage Your Time, and Be Productive

“More often than not, what you are searching for will only be gained through beginning.”
― Patrick King, The Science of Overcoming Procrastination: How to Be Disciplined, Break Inertia, Manage Your Time, and Be Productive