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Quotes About Delay

Procrastination comes in two types. Some of us procrastinate in order to pursue restful activities - spending time in bed, watching TV - while others delay difficult or unpleasant tasks in favor of those that are more fun.
~ Daniel Levitin
They tend to lay dormant for a while but often come back, and then the cheques come in!
~ Thayer David
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
~ Quintilian
I think millennials are a generation that's a little bit behind, maybe four or five years behind the previous generation, as far as when they buy a house.
~ Dan Gilbert
One of my delays was in speech and speech pronunciation, and also the auditory processing issue just means I really struggle as an auditory learner.
~ Amanda Gorman
I have an advanced degree in procrastination and another one in paranoia.
~ Joanne Harris
Procrastination is in my genetic code.
~ Joe Buck
My life is a monument to procrastination, to the art of putting things off until later, or much later, or possibly never.
~ Craig Brown
A defendant can use discovery to run out the clock on the plaintiff and to make the plaintiff run out of money.
~ Amul Thapar
The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Mr. C. Klackner has for sale four etchings etched by myself, at the expense of two years' time & hard work - 'The Life Line,' 'Peril on the Sea,' 'Eight Bells,' 'Mending Tears,' - all of which are very good and should have been put forward long ago, but C. Klackner is waiting for me to die, is my idea of the matter.
~ Winslow Homer
It's a massive consumer frustration around the world about how long they have to wait after the U.S. to see television shows and movies. In the U.S., there's the frustration of having to wait a year to watch a movie in the format that you choose.
~ Ted Sarandos
As a small business owner myself, I talk to so many other business owners who delay seasonal hiring by waiting until the last minute to make their temporary hires.
~ Fabrizio Moreira
They came in late
~ Robert Dugoni
activities start this week, don't
~ Robert Dugoni
I can imagine few things more trying to the patience than the long wasted days of waiting.
~ Robert Falcon Scott
in days and he was too late to pick up the trail at her home station. The best he could do was to lurk around the
~ Robert Galbraith
The execution did not go as smoothly as expected due to clogging of the IV tube administering the lethal chemicals into Gacy's arm. After a delay of 18 minutes, Gacy was pronounced dead at 12:58 a.m. on May 10, 1994.   His final words were reported to be, "Kiss my ass.
~ Robert Keller
I waited. After what seemed an hour, but which was only fifty-nine minutes,
~ Robert Leslie Bellem
in life in general—you need to pay the price of success before you get all the rewards due to you.
~ Robin S. Sharma
Then come to me in Bright Defile, he said, where Judgment Day is not a thing that can be delayed for overlong.
~ Roger Zelazny
The moment stretched beyond the point of action.
~ Roger Zelazny
To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power, age-old pastime of humanity.
~ Roland Barthes
Junior waited more than a year to depart from the company.
~ Ron Chernow