Christopher Parker Quotes

We are prone to seek immediate pleasure or good, however small, rather than remote pleasure or good, however vast.

There is no use if knowledge grows while desires multiply. It makes one a hero in words and a zero in action.

The main reason for people's lack of success is their willingness to give up what they want most of all, for what they want right now!

Giving up on our long-term goals for immediate gratification, my friends, is procrastination.

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.

It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

Let's face it: the present self is present. It's in control. It's in power right now. It has these strong, heroic arms that can lift doughnuts into your mouth. And the future self is not even around. It's off in the future. It's weak. It doesn't even have a lawyer present.

No one wants to be patient. No one wants to wait for anything. They want it right now - that instant gratification.

The thing you love right away, don't do it, because that's the very thing that's going to be your addiction for the rest of your life.

One definition of maturity is learning to delay pleasure.

If you do the things you need to do when you need to do them, then someday you can do the things you want do when you want to do them.

... indefinite visions of ambition are weak against the ease of doing what is habitual or beguilingly agreeable.

America's greatest sin is the refusal to delay gratification.

By definition, saving - for anything - requires us to not get things now so that we can get bigger ones later. That's hard. Our brains are hard wired to prefer the here and now.

I have a very addictive personality, so I'm even careful about wanting more of anything than I need - even chocolate.

There's nothing wrong with procrastination. Or is there? I'll leave it to you to decide, but only if you have the time.

I'm the worst ad anyone could possibly be for abstaining from anything.

My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season.

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.

I can be a lazy slob.

Oh Lord, give me chastity, but do not give it yet.

A good heavy book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic.