Bob Mortimer Quotes

When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say.

There's always a reason not to do anything... to flee the need to make decisions.

There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it with reluctance.

We think we want to do something and when it comes to it, we don't. We don't like to commit.

Our fear leads us to say no all the time.

There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.

Too many of us fail to fulfill our needs because we say no rather than yes, or perhaps later in life, yes when we should say no.

I used to second guess myself all the time. I can sit there and work in circles when I'm nervous about what I'm doing.

I have hesitation making any kind of decision, really in my life. I'm really slow at it.

I'm pathologically incapable of making decisions. Just ask my wife how long it took me to propose - on second thought, best not to bring it up.

Delays in or avoidance of decision making was chronic.

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

Hesitation is often like procrastination. One may have vague doubts and feel a need to mull things over; meanwhile, other issues intrude on thought, and no decision is taken. Ask people why they procrastinate, and you probably won't get a crisp answer.

I wasn't always a willing passer.

No one likes getting hit. It's a normal thing... I used to make up excuses when the coach would ask me to get in the ring. I'd say I forgot my mouthpiece, or I'd say I had a headache or something.

I'm terrible with decisions. And I can't make myself do something I don't like. I can't knuckle under.

Many times somebody tried to help me be constructive and I just pushed them away.

He inched his way up the corridor as if he would rather be yarding his way down it, which was true.

I'm not looking at anything now. I'll look at it at the time. What I have seen, what I've seen is so bad.

Do not call procrastination laziness. Call it fear.

I've seen many men avoid the region of good advice before they were really near it.

It's easy to say no, I'm not going to do that. I'm not leaving the house.

My parents would have to put the fire hose on me to get me out of bed, to go to school in the morning. They would use a cattle prod and just shock me, or throw boiling water on me, or fire a gun next to my head, to get me out of bed.

I know I have to do the right thing. And the sooner you do the right thing, the better. You get it over with, and you don't have to worry about it anymore. But who does that in real life? Instead, you procrastinate and think about it and put it off and think about it some more until that one little pebble grows into a giant block inside your head.

You've got to avoid situations that make you uncomfortable.