Antony Jay Quotes

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

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

Delay is the deadliest form of denial.

He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

The only risk we run is by doing nothing.

Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all.

One of the things I'm really good at is procrastinating.

I'm so good at procrastinating.

Not to decide is to decide.

To shun one's cross is to make it heavier.

Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.

If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.

Another way to lose control is to ignore something when you should address it.

I think of myself as naturally idle. The trouble is, the 'nothing' that I do every day is not really nothing. I potter. I muck about with emails, I make coffee, I fiddle with my computer to make sure that the book I haven't started writing is perfectly synced across all platforms and devices.

I can procrastinate a little bit.

Who reflects too much will accomplish little.

To delay action until there Is one hundred percent certainty Is always to postpone political action forever.

This can has been kicked down the road for 60 years. Enough is enough!!!

Sometimes inaction is worse than action.

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.

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

There are always twenty excellent reasons for doing nothing for every one reason for starting anything-especially if it has never been done before.

Hoping and Wishing are excuses for not Doing.

To avoid doing anything, wait for the right circumstances.

Do not call procrastination laziness. Call it fear.