Hold Your Peace, Before You Make Your Piece

The Critical Voice: 

He* is no doubt a chainsmoker, drinks coffee like Balzac**, self-injects testosterone (in the eyeball!), and does coke off his desk.

Quiet the mind and lock him out. 

Now get to work.

*He is most likely a he, whatever the gender of the thinker. 

**Balzac drank 53 cups a day while writing – and died of a heart attack at 51.

Most things good for writing are bad for life. Lorrie Moore

Hiding Within

It turns out procrastination is not typically a function of laziness, apathy, or work ethic as it is often regarded to be. It's a neurotic self-defense behavior that develops to protect a person's sense of self-worth.

You see, procrastinators tend to be people who have, for whatever reason, developed to perceive an unusually strong association between their performance and their value as a person. This makes failure or criticism disproportionately painful, which leads naturally to hesitancy when it comes to the prospect of doing anything that reflects their ability – which is pretty much everything.

David Cain, Procrastination Is Not Laziness

Save your sorrow for after the fight

As best as I can tell, this is a quote from The Last Jedi (I've not seen it – Star Wars isn't my jam). The entire quote from Rian Johnson's script:

Save your sorrow for after the fight. Close your eyes. Feel it. The Light, it’s always been there. It will guide you.