Complacency is almost always the product of success or perceived success
The man who does not betake himself at once and desperately to sawing is called a loafer, though he may be knocking at the doors of heaven all the while.
Modo, et modo, non habebent modum. By-and-by has no end.
Telling the public, 'We'll get to it later,' is inadequate. That's what the federal government does.
It used to be people came here, did their work for three months or so, then went home. Now we have these huge staffs we created and an atmosphere of being a full-time legislature.... Now things just drift without any direction or urgency.
I don't have any sense or urgency about any of my writing, actually. I don't think mankind will be damaged if I don't put out a new album or a new book.
Someday. That's a dangerous word. It's really just a code for 'never'.
why are we so monumentally slow?
Some of this is bureaucratic ineptitude and a great deal of this is an administration that doesn't understand the urgency of the situation, and therefore this [Barack Obama] administration has not reached out actively to the private sector and said, we need help.
I'm an old guy. I've been doing this a long time. And I don't hustle and I don't bustle. I have seen the people who hustle and bustle, and they are already gone, at a young age.
It occurred to me that I was unhappy. And it didn’t feel so very terrible. No urgency, nothing. I could slip out of my life on a slow wave like this—it didn’t matter. I don’t have to be happy. All I have to do is hold on to something and wait.
One of the most serious human defects in all ages is procrastination, an unwillingness to accept personal responsibilities now.
I've always been in an environment saturated with Democrats, and because we aren't constantly challenged, we feel little urgency, we struggle to be enthusiastic and we can get lazy.
Delay leads impotent and snail-paced beggary.
In everyday life there is always manana. There is no urgency.
A sluggish, dawdling, and dilatory man may have spasms of activity, but he never acts continuously and consecutively with energetic quickness.
We have a saying in Marseilles: a man in no hurry gets nowhere fast. I have been in no hurry for eight years.
