Steven Pinker Quotes

What's your hurry?" Because now is the only time there ever is to do a thing in," said Miss Ophelia.

Or is there no such thing as 'too late'? Is there only 'late' and is 'late' always better than 'never'? I don't know.

Postpone joy, it will diminish. Postpone a problem, it will grow.

There’s only two times in life, there’s now and there’s too late.

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

If you don't have a plan, days turn into weeks, weeks turn into months, months turn into years, and before you know it you're looking back saying, I should've had a plan.

We have a saying in Marseilles: a man in no hurry gets nowhere fast. I have been in no hurry for eight years.

Do not act as if you had a thousand years to live.

I decided a long time ago but sometimes it takes you 40 years to get around to doing something - and that's the truthful answer.

Joshua didn't say choose you next year whom you will serve; he spoke of "this day," while there is still daylight and before the darkness becomes more and more normal.

Delay is ever fatal to those who are prepared.

The best time to do something significant is between yesterday and tomorrow.

Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.

It is no matter what you teach them first, any more than what leg you shall put into your breeches first. You may stand disputing which is best to put in first, but in the mean time your breech is bare. Sir, while you are considering which of two things you should teach your child first, another boy has learned them both.

If you're working on something and it's not coming together, it's easy to say, "I don't want to show this, until I've figured it out." But a lot of times you don't really solve the problems, and then you start getting into a bad situation because you don't have the time to fix it.

The time to begin most things is ten years ago.

One’s objective should be to get it right, get it quick, get it out and get it over. Your problem won’t improve with age.

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

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.

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

Why cannot one always do, not only the right thing, but at the right time?

If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

No time like the present

Tear thyself from delay.