Colin Greenwood Quotes

You've got to make haste while it's still light of day.

No two things differ more than hurry and despatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind; despatch of a strong one.

Move fast. A sense of urgency is the one thing you can develop that will separate you from everyone else. When you get a good idea, do it now.

If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well. It were done quickly.

It is no matter what you teach them first, any more than what leg you shall put into your breeches first. You may stand disputing which is best to put in first, but in the mean time your breech is bare. Sir, while you are considering which of two things you should teach your child first, another boy has learned them both.

Shun delays, they breed remorse;Take thy time while time is lent thee;Creeping snails have weakest force,Fly their fault lest thou repent thee.Good is best when soonest wrought,Linger'd labours come to nought.

Delay is the enemy of progress.

Done is better than perfect!

Delay is not our friend. Delay is our enemy.

The criterion of action is that todays work should not be deferred till the following day.

Momentum is a fragile force. Its worst enemy: procrastination. Its best friend: a deadline (think Election Day). Implication no. 1 (and there is no no. 2): Get to work! NOW!

People have to decide on priorities if they want to get anywhere. The best lessons I learned was to just do it.

Don't just put it off and think about it!

The easiest thing to do in the world is to neglect the important and give in to the urgent.

Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends.

Indecision is a major time waster; 80% of decisions should be made the first time they come up

If you plan to face tomorrow, do it soon.

Lose the day loitering, 'twill be the same story To-morrow, and the next more dilatory, For indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! What you can do, or think you can, begin it! Only engage, and then the mind grows heated; Begin it, and the work will be completed.

Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.

Don't put off for tomorrow what you can do today because if you enjoy it today, you can do it again tomorrow.

I think good ideas are usually better done quickly than slowly.

And of all glad words of prose or rhyme, The gladdest are Act while there yet is time

Whatever can be done another day can be done today.

He who puts off nothing till tomorrow has done a great deal.

I think that one of these days," he said, "you're going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you've got to start going there. But immediately. You can't afford to lose a minute. Not you.