Delay Tactics Quotes

I've kind of done everything late.

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

My life is a monument to procrastination, to the art of putting things off until later, or much later, or possibly never.

In boxing, there are lot of things that happen where they try to slow down the process and try to get to the other team, trying to get into our heads.

I won't wait for this Joshua-Wilder-Tyson Fury nonsense and become a pawn in their negotiations.

A defendant can use discovery to run out the clock on the plaintiff and to make the plaintiff run out of money.

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

General McClellan argues indefinite procrastination.

Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.

I have a tendency to postpone starting a piece until it's kicked around in my head a little bit.

Evidently there is no need for delay, no need for further study, if the government takes a loss and Wall Street makes a profit, but it is absolutely necessary to delay if homeowners might have a chance to cut their mortgages and stay in their homes. This is wrong, and it is time to fight back!

I could give you absolutely sterling advice on how to avoid writing, how when you run out of things to do other than going to your desk and writing, when every closet is reorganized and you've called your oldest living relative twice in one day to see what she's up to and there isn't an unanswered e-mail left on your computer or you simply can't bear to answer another one and there is no dignity, not a drop left, in any further evasion of the task at hand, namely writing, well, you can always ask your dentist for a root canal or have an accident in the bathtub instead.

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

If you temporize, you are lost.

… a man remarkable even among civil servants for adroitness in baffling inconvenient inquiries, resource in raising false issues, and, in, short, a consummate command of all the arts of officially sticking in the mud

I checked my gear, my pockets, my shoelaces, and realized that I had crossed the line between making sure I was ready and trying to postpone the inevitable.

Please don't ask me to do that which I've just said I'm not going to do, because you're burning up time. The meter is running through the sand on you, and I am now filibustering.

You know, the purpose of reconciliation is to avoid the filibuster. The filibuster is an effort to talk something to death.

In Washington, 'delay' is too often code for 'derail.' Wink, wink.

There is only so much that you can kick the can down the road.

Sometimes, if you ask people to "go downstairs and get me this or that," they'll say, "It's rainin" or "It might rain," or "There's some bumpy roads on the road," or bla-bla-bla. They give you all those excuses, so when they do something which is easy, you're supposed to say, "Damn, you did that?"

I often work by avoidance.

Procrastination is in my genetic code.

Many environmental battles are won by delaying a destructive project long enough to change the conversation - to allow new economic, political and social dynamics to emerge.

Intricate and involved rules of procedure have become the refuge of both big and little criminals. There is a belief abroad that by invoking technicalities, subterfuge, and delay, the ends of justice may be thwarted by those who can pay the cost.