Jim Evans Quotes

My biggest worry is that sometimes you know the problem, but you don't do anything about it until it gets too big to be fixed.

To shun one's cross is to make it heavier.

What I worry about is that when problems are not addressed, people will not know who is responsible.

I think the worst thing you can do about a situation is nothing.

People die as you elect new apostles of neglect.

The less you want to do about something, the more you have to talk about it

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

Especially in recent years, the more and more we understand what we are doing, the more we have the science to tell us what we're doing, the fact that we continue to do it without taking steps to address it strikes me as, among many other things, irreverent in an extreme.

I really don't pay too much attention; I don't go out of my way to read any interviews.

Who is so deafe, as he that will not hear?

A man who doesn't dream is like a man who doesn't sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.

I don't know exactly how it's done. I let it alone a good deal.

Failing to hold someone accountable is ultimately an act of selfishness.

What is deferred is not avoided.

I ... practiced all the arts of apology, evasion, and invisibility, to which procrastinators must sooner or later be reduced.

Seven national crimes: 1. I don't think. 2. I don't know. 3. I don't care. 4. I am too busy. 5. I leave well enough alone. 6. I have no time to read and find out. 7. I am not interested.

Folks as have no mind to be o' use have allays the luck to be out o' the road when there's anything to be done.

Knowing what to do and not doing it is the same as not knowing what to do.

Hell is truth seen too lateduty neglected in its season.

To help [people] understand that what you shortcut today, cannot be made up tomorrow. So it's like, I'm not going to do anything today, and I'm going to do the wrong thing today and somehow tomorrow it will get a lot better."

And worrying is less work than doing something to fix the worry. This is especially true if we're careful to pick the biggest possible problems to worry about. Everybody wants to save the earth; nobody want to help Mom do the dishes.

The truth is that not yet usually means never. Trying to run away from the responsibility to decide about Christ is childish. Pilate sought to refuse responsibility for deciding about Christ, but Pilate's hands were never dirtier than just after he had washed them.

Laziness in doing stupid things can be a great virtue.

When habit has strengthened our sense of duties, they leave us no time for other things; but when young we neglect them and this gives us time for anything.