John Heywood Quotes

Too often, the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the two locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it's too late.

While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin, the opportunity is lost.

Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.

The longer you wait to do something you should do now, the greater the odds that you will never actually do it.

Never use prayer as an excuse to procrastinate doing what you already know is the right thing to do.

He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all.

While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity.

The opportunity is often lost by deliberating.

He who hesitates is a damned fool.

By the time you know what to do, you're too old to do it.

[Cost-benefit analysis is used:] ... to produce lofty academic-sounding reasons for endless inaction.

Procrastinate now, don't put it off.

Time drinketh up the essence of every great and noble action which ought to be performed, and which is delayed in the execution.

Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until he knew enough to write them well. Well, he would not have to fail at trying to write them either. Maybe you could never write them, and that was why you put them off and delayed the starting. Well he would never know, now.

In delay there lies no plenty.

The distracting feeling of disbelief when you're finally doing something you've procrastinated on for notable amounts of time.

A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.

While the grasse groweth the horse starveth.

It is an undoubted truth, that the less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in. One yawns, one procrastinates, one can do it when one will, and therefore one seldom does it at all.

We often wait for the resources before we make a move.

Who seeks, and will not take, when once 'tis offer'd, Shall never find it more.

The cost of procrastination is generally far greater than the cost of making mistakes.

Everything comes too late for those who only wait.

Indulge in procrastination, and in time yon will come to this, that because a thing ought to be done, therefore you can't do it.