Plautus Quotes

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

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

I'm a bit shy, I suppose, and a bit lazy.

Before I had my heart problem, if I was asked to do something I would look through a mental file looking for reasons why I could say no.

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.

Reluctance to begin is quick to befriend procrastination. . . .

It seems unpleasantly refined to put things off till someone knows.

It is worse to be irresolute than to be wrong.

You tend to get reluctant to talk about anything until the day before filming.

Delay is the deadliest form of denial.

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.

A decision is what a man makes when he can't find anybody to serve on a committee.

The only risk we run is by doing nothing.

Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all.

Not to decide is to decide.

I've waffled before. I'll waffle again.

I hate giving advice, because people won't take it.

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

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.

Delays in or avoidance of decision making was chronic.

The risks of inaction are far greater than the risks of action.

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

I like to do everything I can to avoid rehearsals, even while we're rehearsing.

The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.

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