Stalling Quotes

Delay is the deadliest form of denial.

Delays in or avoidance of decision making was chronic.

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

The Iranians may simply try to run out the clock.

I don't have to stop you. All I have to do is slow you down." -Ganner Rhysode

If you temporize, you are lost.

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.

Sometimes if you have a difficult decisin to make, just stall until the answer presents itself.

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

People always go to the ground with me trying to just hold me. They stall and wait for the referee to stand them back up so they can start it all over.

I don't think it is about stalling or curing: it's about reversing. Curing gives you the impression of immortality. Stalling gives you the impression that you'll be 85 forever, which is not great.

That window is closing. . . . Now, the clock is ticking. . . . We're not going to have these talks just drag out in a stalling process. . . . We haven't given away anything - other than the opportunity for us to negotiate

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

To catch the ball, face up, look at all of my options and then pass. I was playing hot potato. I didn't want to be the guy to stall the triangle.

If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.

Obstruction takes time.

Postponement: The father of failure.

I'm always moving forward creatively and don't like stalling, trying to find the perfect snare drum sound.

Sure baby, mañana. It was always mañana. For the next few weeks that was all I heard––mañana a lovely word and one that probably means heaven.