Quotes About Delay

The following afternoon, alone in their room, and oppressed by not yet having made the promised call to Connie...

Plus. she'd already been downstairs for so long that it would be unpleasant to go up and beg Jason for further patience, and her life was already so fraught with unpleasantnesses that she'd adopted the strategy of delaying encounters with them as long as possible, even when the delay made it likely that they would be even more unpleasant when she did encounter them.

her life was already so fraught with unpleasantnesses that she'd adopted the strategy of delaying encounters with them as long as possible, even when the delay made it likely that they would be even more unpleasant when she did encounter them.

The one thing everyone in the Republic had plenty of was time. Whatever you didn't do today really could be put off until tomorrow.

We spend our lives waiting for our book and it never comes.

This delay (whose importance the reader will appreciate later) was due to a desire on the part of the authorities to act slowly and impersonally, in the manner of planets or vegetables.

They always take longer than you think.

Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.

Rumor has it that, when they shut down the IBM 7094 at MIT in 1973, they found a low-priority process that had been submitted in 1967 and had not yet been run.

I am so behind that yesterday catches up with tomorrow.

It is difficult to enjoy people for whom we have waited too long. And in this familiar situation, which evokes such intensities of feeling, we wait and we try to do something other than waiting, and we often get bored - the boredom of protest that is always a screen for rage.

If a pane of glass, or the door of a cupboard in the scullery, requires mending, it cannot now be done without the following process: a requisition is prepared and signed by the chief cook, it is then counter-signed by the clerk of the kitchen, then it is taken to the lord chamberlain's office, where it is authorized, and then laid before the clerk of the works, under the office of woods and forests; and consequently, many a window and cupboard have remained broken for months.

I would have had my patent long, long ago, and it would have run out long, long ago. I would have made, maybe, $100.000, much less that the patent has brought me now.

Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.

I don't think patience is something that any of us grow up with in a large dose. It's a world of instant gratification.

No one thought the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight would happen, but I had patience.

I haven't got a lot of patience.

People are not patient anymore.

I am not patient.

Sometimes you have to wait. Sometimes you have to be patient, and your chances will come.

Everyone works hard in this industry. However, it takes time to get good work. Some get it quite late. It is a frustrating and confusing journey, but I feel I have been patient.

No one wants to be patient. No one wants to wait for anything. They want it right now - that instant gratification.

It was very tough to be patient.

Patience pays off.