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.

Ellen DeGeneres

I have a terrible problem with procrastination... a friend told me, "Well, you should go to therapy." And I thought about it, but then I said, "Wait a minute. Why should I pay a stranger to listen to me talk when I can get strangers to pay to listen to me talk?" And that's when I got the idea of touring.

Julia Cameron

Do not call procrastination laziness. Call it fear.

Joe Monahan

He could influence the outcome of the race. If he does have any ideas he wants to see advanced, this is the time to do it.

Jon Hurst

There are still a ton of mom-and-pops out there that come up with new ideas and new niches.

George Foster

Here we'd like to think they can start to think about the ideas we're teaching, but their main job is to perform on the field.

Bob Garner

The purpose of the newsletter is to supply the reader with a reliable supply of seeds made up of proven motivational ideas and strategies that can be immediately put to use.

Mike Moore

I think they will respond to our ideas in Shanghai,

Rob Enderle

It is one of the more interesting ideas that has come up of late. And one that I think has the potential to really transform the way we play with the Web.

Carl Jung

You and I are meant to be. It's the only thing I'm absolutely sure of. And while I have no idea what to expect, I promise I'll do whatever it takes to find my way back.

Monica Procar

We make a lot of what is in here ourselves. We make the wreaths and the swags and whatever ideas that we can come up with.

Newt Gingrich

Ideas precede reform. If you can't think it, you can't say it and you can't do it.

Nathan Frohling

We've been waiting 10 years for this moment.

Bob Williams

I think we're still waiting for that to emerge.

Mike Trapasso

I think a lot of (pollsters) are waiting to see what we do this week.

Ann Gard

I was waiting for it. At that time, telegrams were so prominent.

Dr. Tsou

I have been waiting 25 years for this time.

Steve Adams

I don't know what's in it (investigative file). I'm waiting to see.

Ibrahim Gambari

He has said what he wanted and is waiting for a response.

Richard Dawkins

I have no explanation for complex biological design. All I know is that God isn't a good explanation, so we must wait and hope that somebody comes up with a better one.

Tyler Hoechlin

Some things are worth the wait.