Quotes About Delay

Waiting is one of life's hardships.

There is no point in delaying crying. Sadness is like having a vicious alligator around. You can ignore it for only so long before it begins devouring things and you have to pay attention.

Sometimes, even the best of plans will occur to you when it is too late.

I pushed the door open, slow as long division.

everything being fine is only one of many, many reasons why someone may not contact you. Perhaps they are tied up. Maybe they are surrounded by fierce weasels, or perhaps they are wedged tightly between two refrigerators and cannot get themselves out.

Waiting is one of life's hardships

If we wait until we're ready we'll be waiting for the rest of our lives

Mr. Abraham, driven to desperation by the endless delays of the tailor who was making him a pair of trousers, finally cried, "Tailor, in the name of Heaven, it has already taken you six weeks!" "So?" "So, you ask? Six weeks for a pair of pants? Reboyne Shel Oylem! It took God only six days to create the universe!" "Nu," shrugged the tailor, "look at it….

Love must wait; it must break one's bones.

A further tip: Delay as much exposition as you can for the first 10 percent of your novel. If you can create a mystery about it, even better. But understand that the readers will wait a long time before getting answers as long as they are caught up in a solid plot.

I do not think it worth while to wait for enjoyment until there is some real opportunity for it.

when people are waiting, they are bad judges of time, and every half minute seems like five.

Perfection should not have come quite so soon.

When in dread, my rule was always to procrastinate.

It is unnatural for drivers and team members to be sitting on their hands when we would usually be racing.

You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come.

Most women put off entertaining until the kids are grown.

Earned a bachelor's at 27, then an M.F.A. that is still completely unused and in mint condition, never taken out of the box.

Procrastination is the thief of time.

Waiting is the hardest work of hope.

Most people keep waiting on happiness, putting off happiness until they're successful or until they achieve some goal, which means we limit both happiness and success. That formula doesn't work.

If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work.

A procrastinators willpower lies in the fact that he keeps work pending because he strongly feels he wants to do the same – keep it pending.

There's nothing more prized to a man than something he had to wait for, work for, or struggle a little bit to get.