George H. W. Bush Quotes

The safest refuge when dealing with urgent, ticklish problems is sought in shirking responsibility, in gaining time by the formation of Committees, with the requisite Sub-Committees to tackle the problem. It is the well-known practice of Promise, Pause, Prepare, Postpone and end by letting things alone

There is only so much that you can kick the can down the road.

Obstruction takes time.

Postponement: The father of failure.

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

Delay is the deadliest form of denial.

If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.

If you temporize, you are lost.

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

The minority makes every effort to delay business.

An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for years or months. A competent attorney can delay one even longer.

The reason we don't give a date by which we will acquire something is because we don't want to create pressure on ourselves to buy something.

I've kind of done everything late.

I still have this habit, I guess, continued from college, where I procrastinate up until the last moment.

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

I don't have to stop you. All I have to do is slow you down." -Ganner Rhysode

Procrastination is another form of resistance

I ... practiced all the arts of apology, evasion, and invisibility, to which procrastinators must sooner or later be reduced.

Writers are notorious for using any reason to keep from working: over-researching, retyping, going to meetings, waxing the floors - anything.

I checked my gear, my pockets, my shoelaces, and realized that I had crossed the line between making sure I was ready and trying to postpone the inevitable.

But why do only unimportant things?" asked Milo, who suddenly remembered how much time he spent each day doing them. "Think of all the trouble it saves," the man explained, and his face looked as if he'd be grinning an evil grin--if he could grin at all. "If you only do the easy and useless jobs, you'll never have to worry about the important ones which are so difficult. You just won't have the time. For there's always something to do to keep you from what you really should be doing, and if it weren't for that dreadful magic staff, you'd never know how much time you were wasting.

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

When a job is to be done there's no use putting it off.

People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now.

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