Quotes About Delay

Ah! the clock is always slow; it is later than you think.

Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping.

Airplane Law, The: When the plane you are on is late, the plane you want to transfer to is on time.

This is a matter of public health. The public was sick and tired of DeLay and his corruption.

So many people postpone joy until they have achieved.

We have time, there's no big rush.

I had a blind date with a dentist — and he told me to come back in six months.

La madurez consiste en saber posponer el placer inmediato para conseguir mejorar la situación a largo plazo.

Some people spend the whole of their lives sitting waiting for one train, only to find that they never even made it to the station.

A watched pot never boils

We let our dreams take over. We stopped saying someday and started saying next year, next month, next week.

you are many years late; how happy I am to see you

Dalton. We don't know where the others are. They were just behind us. I think we'd better wait for them.' 'I saw a cart pull out in front of them,' Sophie said. 'It'll have slowed them down.' Mr Lloyd looked round, frowning. 'No one's come to the door to check what we're

and it can't wait.

All Russians I knew hoped passionately that, with Hitler beaten, the War allies might continue friendship into long years of peace. They knew, of course - they had known all through the war - that there were elements in America that sabotaged the alliance, and even some who would rather see Hitler win. For two years while Russians perished by millions, they had watched their Allies delay the promised "second front" in the west.

Month after month, the Russians, bearing the brunt of war, had waited. The Anglo-American landing did not come until June 6, 1944, when the Russian army had already liberated most of the USSR and was driving across Poland. Many Russians had bitterly wondered whether the Allies delayed so that Russia might take the loss, and landed at last in Normandy because they could not afford to let Russians take Berlin alone.

The time I had waited probably made the difference between success and failure.

Really? Brilliant. Thanks, Don.' 'Listen. If you're coming up, leave it for at least an hour or two,

Princess, I assure you, the English Government may be riddled with imperfections, but in the matters of creative delay we are unmatched.- Nash Renfrew

This tendency we all have to favor our present-self at the expense of our future-self is called temporal discounting.* We are willing to take an irrationally large discount to get a reward now instead of waiting for a bigger reward later.

Depuis vingt ans, je note « 58 » dans mes projets de livre. C'est le texte toujours manquant. Toujours remis. Le trou inqualifiable.

Keep the dream alive; hit the snooze button!

China, I didn't take it seriously; it was a lack of professionalism. They delayed to send us a written offer - It was a disaster.

One day's delay is another day's lack of progress.