Sam Heughan Quotes

Lets not push it under the rug, or push it to the side because, no matter what, it's going to keep coming up. You know, if you never deal with that dirt up under the carpet, it's going to get larger and larger, and it's going to keep coming up.

Sadly, I'm one of those people who emotionally puts things off and then gets caught very blindsided at the end.

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.

I think, sometimes when we face problems and issues in our life, we have a tendency to really deny that a problem exists. Or sometimes we say, oh, it'll go away, or we can handle it. It's - you know, don't worry. I've got it covered. And a lot of times, that's not the case.

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.

When we postpone the harvest, the fruit rots, but when we postpone our problems, they keep on growing.

If there is a problem, and you don't say anything about it, it's like a cancer and it becomes bigger.

There is the natural tendency that all of us are vulnerable to, to deny unpleasant realities and to look for any excuse to push them away and resolve to think about them another day long in the future.

Another way to lose control is to ignore something when you should address it.

There are a lot of issues that I hope we deal with at some point that we haven't up to now, for various reasons. Some technical, and some more political.

Competing pressures tempt one to believe that an issue deferred is a problem avoided. More often it is a crisis invited.

Excluding certain problems from the political debate by making it a crime to discuss them won't lead to the disappearance of these concerns, let alone contribute to a solution.

You write in songs what you're too scared to write in real life, and then you sing the songs to loads of people instead of telling it to the person you should be telling it to... Songs are a great way of dealing with those issues but kind of a coward's way as well.

If somebody tells me to work or exercise, I go the other way. I'll come up with an excuse.

Why do I keep evading my work? Is it because I’m afraid of being confronted by my lack of abilities?

And that is how Goodwin problems were always fixed. Fix them on the surface but don't go to the root, always ignoring the elephant in the room. I think that morning was when I realized I'd grown up with an elephant in every room of my life. It was practically our family pet.

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

That's maybe the reason he does so many things so that he will not have to think .

The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.

There are a lot of things that are uncomfortable and hard to do, and the longer you put off those things, the harder they get.

The longer you delay, the more your sin gets strength and rooting. If you cannot bend a twig, how will you be able to bend it when it is a tree?

Procrastination is another form of resistance

Neglect mending a small fault and 'twill soon be a great one.

What is deferred is not avoided.

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.