1. She told me, "For a long time, our mornings were awful -- lots of crabbiness and procrastination, me yelling at everyone to hurry up." 听上去与直觉相违背，而且，我不确定这对每个人来说是否都行得通，可是在我家，我们有一个上学前美国航天局似的倒计时。
2. The Era of Procrastination, of Half-Measures, of Shoothing and Baffling Expedients, of Delays, is Coming to its Close. 继续拖延、折衷和自我安慰式的权宜之计的时代已经接近尾声。
3. The Era of Procrastination, of Half - Measures, of Soothing and Baffling Expedients, of Delays, is Coming to its Close. 继续拖延，折衷，和找寻自我安慰式的权宜之计的时代已接近尾声，取而代之的，我们将开始生活于其后果之中。
4. Procrastination is not a character defect, rather, it is an attempt at coping with the often incapacitating fear of having our worth help up for judgement. 拖延并不是一种性格缺陷，相当程度上，它是一种试图帮助我们应对不适应的价值观的尝试。
5. For them procrastination is a lifestyle, albeit a maladaptive one. And it cuts across all domains of their life. They don't pay bills on time. 他们认为拖延是他们的生活方式，尽管那是一种不太好的习惯，但是它却贯穿于我们生活的方方面面。
