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.

Ze Frank

A good procrastination should feel like you're inserting lots and lots of commas into the sentence of your life.

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.

Winston Churchill

The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences.

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.

William Peter Blatty

Procrastination is what we often call 'resistance.

Matt Kolojejchick

We've been waiting for this all year. It was one of our goals entering the season, to perform well at districts. Now we have one more day and then we look forward to states.

Chris Como

We're only entering 12 kids this year. But all 12 have a legitimate shot of qualifying.

J. Lewis

Last year, I think we were too confident. We were 23-1 entering the tournament and we just thought we were unbeatable. We know every team is equal, and we have to come out and play each team as if they are the toughest in the state.

James Buchanan

If you arre as happy in entering the White House as I shall feel on returning to Wheatland, you are a happy man indeed.

Sergio Mattarella

I had no intention of entering politics, but then the force of events led me to become involved in politics.

Geoff Johns

Everyone knows Aquaman, probably from all the animation he's been in over the years from the '70s and the '80s, entering him into the pop culture.

Martin Buber

Persons appear by entering into relation to other persons.

Lawrence O'Donnell

Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.

Paul Stoddart

It's a sad day for Formula One when the privateers really do go, but I think we are entering into a new era where the privateers are the Red Bulls, they are really well funded.

Rabbi Zell

He said if I delayed it a bit, he could get five more couples. He delivered ? he got five more couples.

David Gordon

Historically, packaging has been one of the major delays for us in getting product out the door.

Thomas Gunderson

I think it's brilliant. The worst-case outcome for them is that they delay Johnson and force them to pay several million dollars more for Guidant, which weakens them as a competitor.

Tucker Carlson

There is no five-second delay on Crossfire-if you say it, people will hear it. Things can get heated; the potential is there to overstate your position. It is vital to not misrepresent what you actually believe.

Sarah Feinberg

I think the 10th District (of North Carolina) sent him to Washington to work for them, not Tom DeLay or Karl Rove.

Jack Finn

He's going to be looking after a program that has been fraught with delay, faulty science, mismanagement and misdirection.

John Velazquez

We must have run over two or three geese. One of their feathers was in my foot. It was a delayed reaction. After she went through them, then she got scared.

Abdul Rahim

I do not see that happening either from the Indian side or from the Pakistani side. A day's delay is like an year to me. They (the governments) raise our expectations and never keep their promises,

Samuel Johnson

Life admits not of delays; when pleasure can be had, it is fit to catch it. Every hour takes away part of the things that please us, and perhaps part of our disposition to be pleased.