Powerful Quotes on Procrastination by Paul Graham

"...the way to "solve" the problem of procrastination is to let delight pull you instead of making a to-do list push you." - Paul Graham, Good and Bad Procrastination

“Errands are so effective at killing great projects that a lot of people use them for that purpose. Someone who has decided to write a novel, for example, will suddenly find that the house needs cleaning. People who fail to write novels don’t do it by sitting in front of a blank page for days without writing anything. They do it by feeding the cat, going out to buy something they need for their apartment, meeting a friend for coffee, checking email. ‘I don’t have time to work,’ they say. And they don’t; they’ve made sure of that.”

Paul Graham, Good and Bad Procrastination

"The most dangerous form of procrastination is unacknowledged type-B procrastination, because it doesn't feel like procrastination. You're "getting things done." Just the wrong things....Unless you're working on the biggest things you could be working on, you're type-B procrastinating, no matter how much you're getting done."

Paul Graham, Good and Bad Procrastination