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.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Peace is more than a lofty ideal. It is a practical principle that, with conscious effort, can become a normal part of our lives as we deal with matters both large and small. One habit that prevents inner peace is procrastination. It clutters our minds with unfinished business and makes us uneasy until we finish a task and get it out of the way.

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.

Louise Hay

Procrastination is another form of resistance

Salman Rushdie

Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business, that's what.

Wally Amos

The thing is not to leave unfinished business; make every day count.

Emily Giffin

I wondered why I was so startled by the encounter when there was something that seemed utterly inevitable about the moment. Not in any grand, destined sense; just in the quiet, stubborn way that unfinished business has of imposing its will on the unwilling.

Chogyam Trungpa

If you must begin then go all the way, because if you begin and quit, the unfinished business you have left behind begins to haunt you all the time.

Russell M. Nelson

When priorities are in place, one can more patiently tolerate unfinished business.

Havelock Ellis

Liberty is always unfinished business

Herb Grace

Kevin Lynch was huge tonight, especially on the post. He gave us a great effort and is the heart and soul of our team.

Frank Robinson

Hector has been a nice, pleasant surprise with another great effort on his part tonight. He has pitched four good starts. I don't know how he does it at this stage of the season. He seems to thrive on it.

Steve Kellar

This was a good game for us in that everybody played and everybody scored. It was a good, solid effort on everybody's part.

Dwane Casey

He's just made a concerted effort going to the boards. It's called him being a great player.

George Haddow

It comes down to leadership, and this effort is without a leader. I don't think they understand how to do this at the top level.

Nate Altenhofen

I was disappointed in our focus and our effort in the second half. I think we got complacent.

Ed Thompson

The people started using it unauthorized. It was a construction site. We had to make some extra effort to secure the site to keep the public from using it because they were getting in the way.

Mark Cooke

We've been very competitive, especially at home. So far I'm pleased with our effort at home, but I'd like to see us play on the road better.

Gerald Myers

We're proud of the effort Lubbock has made in order to give (the athletes) a new start,