Lawrence O'Donnell Quotes

Nothing so perilous as procrastination

Postponement: The father of failure.

Around here, manana seems to be the busiest day of the week. We never seem to get there.

Put it off for a bit. All life is putting off. Well, not entirely.

Most people put off till tomorrow that which they should have done yesterday.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.

Procrastination is the thief of time.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Delays in or avoidance of decision making was chronic.

We thought we would get around to it sometime down the line. Theoretically we could have regulated it, but it wasn't on our radar screen.

Do it tomorrow; you’ve made enough mistakes today.

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

Procrastinate now, don't put it off.

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

Postponed is not abandoned.

He that will not whan he may,Whan he would, he shall haue nay.

The most life destroying word of all is the word tomorrow.

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

Postponing action is only postponing achievement.

Procrastination is still the thief of time.

He, who is not prepared today, will be less so tomorrow.

Procrastination is a deadly weapon of human progress.

We went to lunch and were talking about procrastination and the waitress overheard us and she said, 'I have a problem with procrastination, too.' I said 'Really?... Get my sandwich.'

The man who procrastinates is always struggling with misfortunes.

The longer you wait to do something you should do now, the greater the odds that you will never actually do it.