Quotes About Delay

The feeling was to be savoured, but not indulged just yet.

I want to make a difference, Shan thought, but not yet. I'm not ready.

a while. Until about a year

In 1995, I sold the rights to Harry Bosch to Paramount. They had several screenplays written, but a movie never happened. Harry Bosch went on the shelf, and I had to wait 15 years to get him back.

Not everything can be solved quickly.

I can't get into specifics. Someday, hopefully, I'll be able to.

I don't have a family. I'd like to have one. I just haven't somehow gotten around to it yet.

I was raised that you don't use something nice until there's someplace to go.

When expectations delay for too long, doubt draw nearer in haste and patience goes farther

Sometimes God doesn't deny, he delays.

Just give us until Rome." The tears escaped. "Just give us until Rome, Melanie.

Again, I've missed you by a minute

Not yet do you feel it. Wait for the future.

we learned to savor the denial of gratification—that most un-American of pleasures!—

So long awaited that its coming was a shock.

Don't do it. Please. I know this book looks delicious with its light-weight pages sliced thin a prosciutto and swiss stacked in a way that would make Dagwood salivate. The scent of freshly baked words wafting up with every turn of the page. Mmmm page. But don't do it. Not yet. Don't eat this book.

Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.

because if I was ever going to, I'd have done it already.

Surely it's not too much to ask a little patience

Procrastination is the most creative act there is.

Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.

PROCRASTINATION. The habit of putting off until tomorrow that which should have been done last year.

Waiting is the rust of the soul.

La espera es el óxido del alma.