Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Collier

If you procrastinate when faced with a big difficult problem... break the problem into parts, and handle one part at a time.

Rhonda Britten

The first is based in fear, the second in fearlessness.

Robert Southwell

Lingering labors come to naught.

Zig Ziglar

If you wait until all the lights are 'green' before you leave home, you'll never get started on your trip to the top.

Walter Savage Landor

Such is our impatience, such our hatred of procrastination, to everything but the amendment of our practices and the adornment of our nature, one would imagine we were dragging Time along by force, and not he us.

Walter Mosley

Many writers-in-waiting spend a lot of time avoiding the work at hand. The most common way to avoid writing is by procrastination. This is the writer's greatest enemy. There is little to say about it except that once you decide to write every day, you must make yourself sit at the desk or table for the required period whether or not you are putting down words. Make yourself take the time even if the hours seem fruitless. Ideally, after a few days or weeks of being chained to the desk, you will submit to the story that must be told.

Jorge Luis Borges

The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.

Napoleon Hill

You must master the habit of procrastination and eliminate it from your wake-up. This habit of putting off until tomorrow that which you should have done last week or last year or a score of years ago is gnawing at the very vitals of your being and you can accomplish nothing until you throw it off.

Orison Swett Marden

A lobster, when left high and dry among the rock, does not have the sense enough to work his way back to the sea, but waits for the sea to come to him. If it does not come, he remains where he is and dies, although the slightest effort would enable him to reach the waves, which are perhaps within a yard of him. The world is full of human lobsters; people stranded on the rocks of indecision and procrastination, who, instead of putting forth their own energies, are waiting for some grand billow of good fortune to set them afloat.

Tony Garcia

We're positive he was going to be not guilty because we know our family.

Rivers Cuomo

I never feel guilty about liking music.

Sandra Bernhard

For most of my relationships, I would have liaisons, and I would feel guilty.

Robin Morgan

guilt politics ... I regard as conveniently paralyzing, ripe for backlash defensiveness, counterproductive, and boring.

John Burke

If you want to say Roger's guilty of being nasty and distasteful, that's okay. He wanted attention.

David Blunkett

I'm guilty of a mistake and I'm paying the price of it,

Khaled Hosseini

True redemption is...when guilt leads to good.

Richard Clark

The e-mails are not as implied. It's like guilt by association.

Horace

The man of upright life, unstained by guilt