Quotes About Delay

The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.

The swiftest despatch seems slow to desire.

Every day you say 'No' to your dreams, you might be pushing back your dreams a whole 6 months

Not every one of our desires can be immediately gratified. We've got to learn to wait patiently for our dreams to come true, especially on the path we've chosen.

Christian education is a bomb with a long fuse - it takes a while to go off.

Health comes before everything else and football can wait.

It's not worth getting too excited about thinking about the larger picture. The larger picture doesn't come into focus for an awfully long time.

I feel like I came to acting late in a way.

I'm such a late bloomer.

I was definitely a late bloomer.

I was something of a late bloomer.

I was a late bloomer in a lot of areas in life.

I was always a late bloomer.

I was a late bloomer.

To put it mildly, I was just a very late bloomer.

It's later than it's ever been.

Lawsuits take a long time.

I'm lazy and I do procrastinate about laundry!

We couldn't get the car back until well after the end of the race and we had very little time for repairs.

I wanted to take some time before I launch my men's line so it took a little while before I launched it.

A lot of people forget that I played for seven years in the lower divisions; it wasn't always 'this glittering career.' I had to wait a long time and even in the early days at Man U, for three years we didn't win anything.

Since high capacity utilization simultaneously raises efficiency and increases delay cost, we need to look at the combined impact of these two factors. We can only do so if we express both factors in the same unit of measure, life-cycle profits. If we do this, we will always conclude that operating a product development process near full utilization is an economic disaster.

We should not prioritize on the basis of project profitability, but rather on how this profitability is affected by delay.

why American industry adopted lean manufacturing 30 to 40 years after these methods began to produce benefits in Japan? Was it because the Japanese hid this approach from Western eyes? No. American industry waited until the full-scale implementations of these ideas at Toyota could no longer be ignored.