Quotes About Delay

One very important key to maintaining our daily sanity is a simple scheduling tactic I call Putting Things the Hell Off.

Xervish Flydd, to Nish. 'You took your bloody time, Nish. I expected you nine years ago.

Godot is whatever it is in life that you are waiting for: 'I'm waiting to win the lottery. I'm waiting to fall in love'. For me, as a child, it was Christmas. At least that eventually came.

Patience is bitter, but bears a sweet fruit.

Haste is from the Devil.

Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.

Good habits are difficult to start because the pain comes now and the payoff is in the future. Bad habits are difficult to stop because the payoff comes now and the pain is in the future.

I am awaiting the return of the nerves to the epidermis. They're being pretty damn slow about it.

If you need a spare part in Pokhara (Nepal) and it has to come from Khatmandu, ninety miles away, you can take off the rest of the week.

It's too late.

Anger is the only thing to put off until tomorrow.

She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte.

The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.

When you're flying off soft keys on a touch screen it's a totally different feel, and a lot of muscle memory is lost. There is that delay when you look at the screen and input a command before it's executed, versus something instantaneous when you move the stick.

Sometimes things can take a very long time and still not be very good. It took us all of evolutionary history just to get where we are today, for instance, and mostly where we are today is on the couch.

Stopping before them, St. Vincent confided, "I would have found you sooner, but I was attacked by a swarm of dingy-dippers.

What the devil is going on?" West spluttered as Kathleen towed him outside and around to the side of the stables. "I dressed and came to the stables at the crack of dawn--" "The crack of dawn was four hours ago.

What we deny owns us. You can't control what you don't first own and face. You simply delay the moment it owns you.

Come about five minutes from now, you'll be stranded like a horned toad

The church always arrives on the scene a little breathless and a little late.

Procrastination is a form of punishment

How long do we wait?" "Long as it takes," he said distractedly because she was sucking the salt off her thumb. Then she sucked on the straw to her soda and he nearly had a brain aneurism.

Give it another five minutes. No force in the known universe can make a gang of folks naming their organization in Latin do much of anything on time. If they're all there by four, we'll know there's some kind of black magic involved.

If you are patient...and wait long enough...Nothing will happen