3 Quotes by Jane B. Burka

It is more tolerable to blame themselves for being disorganized, lazy, or uncooperative than to view themselves as being inadequate and unworthy – the failure they fear so deeply. And it is the fear of this failure that is eased by procrastination.

Some people would rather suffer the consequences of procrastination than the humiliation of trying and not doing as well as they had hoped.

Steel ultimately identified four main issues that make procrastination more likely – low confidence in succeeding, task aversiveness, distractibility and impulsiveness, and having goals and rewards be too far off in the future.