Quotes About Delay

Whether it was work, marriage, or family, I've always been a late bloomer.

Never put off the work till tomorrow what you can put off today.

Imagination only comes when you privilege the subconscious, when you make delay and procrastination work for you.

I gave up on the big screen. The Witching Hour was at Warner Bros. for 10 years and it just didn't work out.

Listen, here it is: Technically, I never quit. I'm seven years late for work.

The half-hour of crowded anticipation, how fully it pays for the sterile hour that follows!

Everybody wants things now. If I hadn't been given the time at Stoke, or at other clubs earlier in my career, I don't think I would have ever been successful.

When I stopped performing for 16 years and lived in Michigan and was married and raising my children, I wrote about four or five books. I haven't published them. I just haven't gotten around to it for several reasons.

Hey, you're here," I say, catching my breath. "Sorry I'm late." "That's all right," she says, and I have to wonder how many times she said that to the people who screwed her over somehow. "No," I say. "It's not all right. But I couldn't help it.

When we said we were going to do something "directly," which is pronounced "dreckly," we meant that we were going to get to it sooner or later, one of these days, maybe never, and please don't ask again.

waiting on line

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking, Frank Partnoy's Wait: The Art and Science of Delay, Linda Kaplan-Thaler's The Power of Nice: How to Conquer the Business World with Kindness and The Power of Small: Why Little Things Make All the Difference, and Cathy O'Neil's Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy.

Martin Luther King, Jr., famously remarked that "justice too long delayed is justice denied." Learning is similar—

Martin Luther King, Jr., famously remarked that "justice too long delayed is justice denied." Learning

You just noticed? You're slow...

era il "ti chiamo domani" di tutta la gente che poi non chiama mai, specialmente se tu speri che chiami davvero...

I'd learned long ago that patience was often rewarded. Certainly, impatience rarely was.

When the plane is delayed, it's not the fault of the girl at the desk. I'm resigned to the fact that everything is out of my control and that air travel nowadays is barbaric.

Oh Lord, give me chastity, but do not give it yet.

Well, PT Anderson sent me a script of Boogie Nights which I let lay around my house for about three months, then one day I'm cleaning my office and decided that I'd better read this before the guy calls me back. I never put it down, bro.

One of the things I'm really good at is procrastinating.

If I was going to be a little boy about it, I'd go into hiding for one or two years. But if I was going to be a man about it, it'd be 20 or 30 years.

I believe in opening mail once a month, whether it needs it or not.

I think after Christmas would be better for publication: I am hardly a Christmas present.