Sendhil Mullainathan Quotes

The thing about live TV is that it simply has to be done, there's no space for procrastination.

None of them want to delay. Understand that. None of them.

It is natural for men, who wish to hasten the adoption of a measure to tell us now is the crisis—now is the crucial moment which must be seized, or all will be lost.

Why do we put off till tomorrow the solutions that we can reach today? People cannot postpone their hunger. Similarly, they do not want their freedom postponed.

Urgency creates decision making.

Tomorrow will be too late, it's now or never.

Live now. Procrastinate later.

Even a correct decision is wrong when it was taken too late.

Do it now and avoid the June rush! Fear death by water!

Sooner would be better than later, and now would be better than sooner." - Tyrion

Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.

I don't need time, I need a deadline.

Sooner or later usually means too late

You don't have to do it straight away, but just do it before it gets really bad.

Sooner or later. It had better be sooner. Later is like the horizon; it recedes as you approach.

Many things can wait. Children cannot. Today their bones are being formed, their blood is being made, their senses are being developed. To them we cannot say "tomorrow." Their name is today.

Sometimes one makes a distinction between urgency and importance. And while disasters are urgent, the basically most important thing is education. And that's what gives it ultimately urgency too, because unless you do it now, this important thing gets again and again postponed.

My head is buried in the sands of tomorrow, while my tail feathers are singed by the hot sun of today.

Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.

We must be diligent today. To wait until tomorrow is too late. Death comes unexpectedly. How can we bargain with it?

No time like the present

God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.

Which of us is not saying to himself which of us has not been saying to himself all his life: " I shall alter that when I have a little more time"? We never shall have any more time. We have, and we have always had, all the time there is.

Take massive action. So many people wait until they have all the answers.