Keir Gilchrist

When I create a character, I do it with the directors, and I take their notes and try to have my notes meet in a common ground. I don't create characters myself, and I don't really think that's my job. I'm not a prep person at all - plus, I'm just a lazy procrastinator.

Canadian Actor

Bindi Irwin

Dad was that one person who, no matter what he did in life, he just took it by storm, and he was so passionate and just really lived in the moment. Whatever the opposite of a procrastinator is, that was him... and I think I kind of inherited a little bit of that.

Australian Actress

Geoff Johns

I think every writer doubts themselves, every day. You procrastinate because you're afraid. You're always afraid it's not going to be as good as you want it to be. But, the key is overcoming fear.

American Writer

Paul J. Meyer

If you are fearful, choose courage. If you frequently procrastinate, choose to take action now. If you have always waited for others to lead, use your own initiative.

American Businessman

Marisha Pessl

Occasionally when I'm procrastinating writing, I'll while away the hours on iTunes. You can just keep going forever and find these bands you'd never normally hear of.

Gretchen Rubin

Take care of difficult calls or emails as quickly as possible. Procrastinating just makes it harder; getting them done gives a big boost of relieved energy.

American Author

Craig Brown

My life is a monument to procrastination, to the art of putting things off until later, or much later, or possibly never.

English Critic

Alexandra Petri

The biggest way to be productive is if you're procrastinating on another more important project.

American Journalist

Joanne Harris

I have an advanced degree in procrastination and another one in paranoia.

British Author

Kristin Kreuk

In high school, I was the biggest procrastinator in the world.

Canadian Actress

Procrastinate usually has a negative tone, implying wasted time and potential guilt.

Negative Connotation

Procrastinate highlights avoiding action rather than being merely inactive.

Action Avoidance

Procrastination suggests an underlying urgency or deadline for the task being delayed.

Subtle Urgency

 when you feel like an impostor you have to find ways to deal with the anxiety of kind of waiting for the other shoe to drop so some of the coping mechanisms are things like flying under the radar you know not raising your hand not asking for promotions not giving your ideas and sharing in meetings procrastination you know when I was supposed to be writing my dissertation I

Thinking your way out of...

 You have poor sleep quality. You tend to not exercise as much. You might eat more junk food, especially because you're stressed. If you're a chronic procrastinator, you've got difficulty regulating yourself. Which can lead to depression and anxiety. They actually put off seeking help for those mental health issues, which doesn't help either.

The real reason you...

 when you're considering their future financial well-being. Well, over the past decade, we have observed three main negative consequences to offering people more and more choices. They're more likely to delay choosing -- procrastinate even when it goes against their best self-interest.

Sheena Iyengar: How to...

 there's no creativity boost. It's only when you're told that you're going to be working on this problem, and then you start procrastinating, but the task is still active in the back of your mind, that you start to incubate. Procrastination gives you time to consider divergent ideas,

The surprising habits of...

 glorious world of Ted and I've played three songs so far there are two more songs to go the next song is rather exciting because I've never ever played this song before ever to anybody I'm a master procrastinator down about you I'm very good at procrastinating and in in

Spectacular, glorious,...

 and pretend it's not there and hope it'll fix itself. Well, it won't. It hasn't, and it's not going to, because that's wishful thinking, and wishful thinking isn't a game plan, it's procrastination, and we can't procrastinate on something this important.

Why we need to talk...

 the world yes and the revolution is set for a week from Saturday but in reality it's whatever we have the creativity to program for now stop procrastinating and go and do the laundry it's not going to wash itself yet

Will future robots & AI...

 relationship with deadlines, but the Monkey's sneakiest trick is when the deadlines aren't there. We need to think about what we're really procrastinating on, because everyone is procrastinating on something in life.

Why you procrastinate --...

 And I thought about this, and I said, well, if the procrastinator's system works, then what's going on? Why are all of these people in such a dark place? Well, it turns out that there's two kinds of procrastination.

Tim Urban: Inside the...

 homework assignments for real grade with a real deadline you can see the deadlines in the usage graph these are the spikes showing that procrastination is a global phenomenon at the end of the course the students