Sherwood Anderson Quotes

Do not put off today's work until tomorrow, lest work accumulate and you achieve nothing.

Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.

Whatever can be done another day can be done today.

Do not put off today's work for tomorrow.

The criterion of action is that todays work should not be deferred till the following day.

Momentum is a fragile force. Its worst enemy: procrastination. Its best friend: a deadline (think Election Day). Implication no. 1 (and there is no no. 2): Get to work! NOW!

We don't have time for tone. We have to go out and get the job done.

Don't put off for tomorrow what you can do today because if you enjoy it today, you can do it again tomorrow.

I was so long writing my review that I never got around to reading the book.

Don't fool yourself that important things can be put off till tomorrow; they can be put off forever, or not at all

If you don't put out a shirt for eight months, that doesn't mean it took you eight months to make the shirt.

If you wait until you feel like doing something, you will likely never accomplish it.

Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends.

Don't waste time on excuses. Just get it done.

You get the job done or you don't.

Research can become Resistance. We want to work, not prepare to work.

There is large difference between indolent impatience of labor and intellectual impatience of delay, large difference between leaving things unfinished because we have more to do or because we are satisfied with what we have done.

In putting off what one has to do, one runs the risk of never being able to do it.

I have a feeling the writers who find screenwriting difficult are usually just not lazy enough for the job. They don't know how to stop before the task is done. I've always had a knack for leaving things unfinished, which makes screenwriting easier for me than most.

He who puts off nothing till tomorrow has done a great deal.

Shun delays, they breed remorse;Take thy time while time is lent thee;Creeping snails have weakest force,Fly their fault lest thou repent thee.Good is best when soonest wrought,Linger'd labours come to nought.

Action will destroy your procrastination.

Have you something to do to-morrow; do it to-day.

You may delay, but time will not.