Quotes About Delayed

Rich and very rich people have developed the discipline of delayed gratification. Millionaires do today what others don't, so they can have tomorrow what others won't.

Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.

Não há nada como o correio, com o seu passo de tartaruga e a sua privacidade, o prazer de esperar o carteiro, de abrir um envelope, de tirar as folhas, que tinham sido dobradas pela minha mãe, e de ler as suas notícias com duas semanas de atraso. Quando eram más já não tinham importância e se eram boas estávamos sempre a tempo de festejar.

The Bell System is like a damn big dragon. You kick it in the tail, and two years later, it feels it in its head.

I got a movie I'm working on. 'A Gangsta's Pain' was actually supposed to be the soundtrack to the movie, but it got a little delayed, so the movie is going to come out after the fact.

Many people labor in life under the impression that they are doing something right, yet they may not show solid results for a long time. They need a capacity for continuously adjourned gratification to survive a steady diet of peer cruelty without becoming demoralized.

because it requires a combination of belief, a capacity for delayed gratification

These two mistakes are quite telling because, in both cases, the benefits appeared to be obvious and immediate, though small, and the harm remained delayed for years

I want my happiness! . . . Many, many years have I waited for it! It is late! It is late! I want my happiness!

The good thing about shell shock is that you don't feel things in the moment. You just feel them later.

If you're looking for immediate rewards, you're only looking for the money.

I believe that the sign of maturity is accepting deferred gratification.

?udnovato je, ali istinito, da te velike nesre?e, kao mine sa duga?kim fitiljem, eksplodiraju tek mnogo docnije, ?esto kad ih ve? niko više ne o?ekuje.

I felt confused, to some degree, by everything—but in a delayed manner, in that I seemed to be repeatedly realizing that I felt confused, instead of feeling directly confused

Real results come from putting your momentary needs on hold to pursue larger, more important goals. The realization of such goals is often delayed, meaning that your commitment to self-management will be tested over and over again. Those who manage themselves the best are able to see things through without cracking. Success comes to those who can put their needs on hold and continually manage their tendencies.

CFCs and DDT carry different, much more sobering but also expected lessons: human interventions in Earth's environment often carry delayed, complex risks, so far removed from the initial concern and so far beyond the readily conceivable complications that only time and the accumulation of events will make us aware of those unexpected but highly consequential impacts.

Anyway that other thing we almost did in Paris-that's probably off the table for a while.Unless you want that whole baby-I'm-on-fire-when-we kiss thing to become freakishly literal

it gets to be an addiction. You want to be OK right now, so you trade that for having a good life in the long run. It's a bad trade, but people do it all the time. That's all addiction really is. It's trading away the future so you can feel OK right now.

Procrastination is a dangerous habit to develop, and it carries a high cost not only to our schedules but also to our hearts, spiritual lives, relationships, and finances. There's a snowball effect of delayed tasks. And as they accumulate, we are further from the life we want and from the person we want to be. We even procrastinate when God gives us an assignment, and then we walk in disobedience. Which creates entirely new issues.

The cause of most of man's unhappiness is sacrificing what he wants most for what he wants now.

Raymond Chandler's first novel came out at 51.

I've got two undergraduate degrees: one is a Bachelor's Degree in Philosophy and a Master's in Psychology. I'm gunning for my Ph. D. in Psychology but that's currently on hold.

To be a climber one has to accept that gratification is rarely immediate.

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.