Delay Quotes - Page 18

• No more misquoted forms, lost invoices, redundant entries, missing checks, or delays caused by incomplete paperwork.

  Bill Gates

  Missing, Lost, Checks

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• Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt not distort, delay, or sequester information

  Donella Meadows

  Information, Commandments

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• The hour of reformation is always delayed; every delay gives vice another opportunity of fortifying itself by habit.

  Samuel Johnson

  Opportunity, Giving, Vices

  Samuel Johnson (1827). “The Rambler”, p.16

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• Every day our garments become more assimilated to ourselves, receiving the impress of the wearer's character, until we hesitate tolay them aside without such delay and medical appliances and some such solemnity even as our bodies.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Character, Receiving, Body

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• Whatever shakes you should without delay, right away, be incorporated into the path.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Path, Should, Shakes

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Two: The Path Is the Goal; Training the Mind; Glimpses of Abhidharma; Glimpses of Shu nyata; Glimpses of Mahayana; Selected Writings”, p.179, Shambhala Publications

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• I wanted to move away from the disaster airplane movies that we have seen in the past and do something that was more mysterious, and delay until the end the resolution of the mystery, and then have to deal with the plane itself.

  Jaume Collet-Serra

  Moving, Airplane, Past

  Source: collider.com

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• The information glut has become a ruling cliche. As all resources - from energy to information - become more abundant, the presure of economic scarcity falls ever more heavily on one key residual, and that single shortage looms ever more stringent and controlling. The governing scarcity of the information economy is time: the shards of a second, the hours in a day, the years in a life, the latency of memory, the delay in aluminum wires, the time to market, the time to metastasis, the time to retirement.

  George Gilder

  Retirement, Memories, Fall

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• The content of Saul Leiter's photographs arrives on a sort of delay: it takes a moment after the first glance to know what the picture is about. You don't so much see the image as let it dissolve into your consciousness, like a tablet in a glass of water.

  Teju Cole

  Glasses, Water, Firsts

  Teju Cole (2016). “Known and Strange Things”, p.104, Faber & Faber

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• I see too many men delay their exits with a sickly, slow reluctance to leave the stage. It's bad theater as well as bad living.

  John Steinbeck

  Men, Exit, Theater

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.15, Penguin

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• The longer incompetent people delay in doing what they`re doing, we`re always better off whenever incompetent people are delaying what they`re going to do.

  Lawrence O'Donnell

  People, Incompetent, Better Off

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• More than 60 percent of small businesses face payment delays. That can cause a serious cash flow crisis. So, as president, I will explore new ways to arm small businesses with the tools to fight back and level the playing field.

  Hillary Clinton

  Fighting, Cash Flow, President

  Source: time.com

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• I had invented my own system, my own way of making electronic music at the San Francisco Tape Music Centre, and I was using what is now referred to as a classical electronic music studio, consisting of tube oscillators and patch bays. There were no mixers or synthesizers. So I managed to figure out how to make the oscillators sing. I used a tape delay system using two tape recorders and stringing the tape between the two tape machines and being able to configure the tracks coming back in different ways.

  Pauline Oliveros

  Two, San Francisco, Track

  Source: artsmania.ca

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• When we had the San Francisco Tape Music Center, we had a couple of Ampex tape machines there, and I could string tape from one machine, past the heads, and over to the next machine to the supply-reel amp, and have another delay there.

  Pauline Oliveros

  Couple, Past, San Francisco

  Source: www.artpractical.com

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• I became interested in the delay, having sounds recorded and played back and then come back. I did many different configurations of sending signals from one track back to another track, or to the same track, or crisscrossing them and so forth. I worked on masking the delays so when I played into the machine, I would make long tones and collect sounds in such a way that you didn't hear the delay, although sometimes you did.

  Pauline Oliveros

  Long, Track, Way

  Source: www.artpractical.com

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• Now, I have about twenty per hand and can change the number of delays, change different parameters, the delays to the modulations and so forth. I developed the EIS over the time period that I was just talking about [1991].

  Pauline Oliveros

  Talking, Numbers, Hands

  Source: www.artpractical.com

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• Before that, an 8-bit recording was pixelated; it was really bad. It didn't serve what I was doing, which was recording live sound and delaying it and feeding it back. This is essentially what the EIS system is: a bunch of delays.

  Pauline Oliveros

  Sound, Feeding, Bunch

  Source: www.artpractical.com

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• Do it, delegate it, delay it, or dump it.

  Jack Canfield

  Dump, Delegates

  Jack Canfield, Kelly Johnson, Ram Ganglani (2017). “Success Affirmations: 52 Weeks for Living a Passionate and Purposeful Life”, p.119, Health Communications, Inc.

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• But in vain she did conjure him, To depart her presence so, Having a thousand tongues t' allure him And but one to bid him go. When lips invite, And eyes delight, And cheeks as fresh as rose in June, Persuade delay,-- What boots to say Forego me now, come to me soon.

  Walter Raleigh

  Eye, June, Rose

  Walter Raleigh (1829). “The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh”, p.721

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• Commemoration of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901 Be not afraid to pray... to pray is right. Pray if thou canst with hope; but ever pray Though hope be weak, or sick with long delay. Whatever is good to wish, ask that of heaven; But if for any wish thou darest not pray, Then pray to God to cast that wish away.

  Hartley Coleridge

  Teacher, Sick, Long

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• You can delay but you can't deny.

  Tyron Woodley

  Mma, Deny

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• At Planned Parenthood, we see the impact of abortion stigma firsthand, in the women who delay getting reproductive health care because they fear they’ll be labeled and judged. We see the effect of stigma on doctors, health center staffers, and others who help provide abortion services. And we see the impact in laws that regulate and restrict abortion in ways that would never happen with any other medical procedure.

  Cecile Richards

  Impact, Doctors, Law

  "Ending the Silence That Fuels Abortion Stigma" by Cecile Richards, www.elle.com. October 16, 2014.

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• It is at once by way of poetry and through poetry, as with music, that the soul glimpses splendors from beyond the tomb; and when an exquisite poem brings one's eyes to the point of tears, those tears are not evidence of an excess of joy, they are witness far more to an exacerbated melancholy, a disposition of the nerves, a nature exiled among imperfect things, which would like to possess, without delay, a paradise revealed on this very same earth.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Eye, Imperfect Things, Poetry

  "L'art romantique". Book by Charles Baudelaire, 1869.

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• For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.

  Petrarch

  Death, Comfort, Needs

  Francesco Petrarch (2016). “Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Francesco Petrarch (Illustrated)”, p.306, Delphi Classics

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• Life admits not of delays; when pleasure can be had, it is fit to catch it. Every hour takes away part of the things that please us, and perhaps part of our disposition to be pleased.

  Samuel Johnson

  Fit, Hours, Pleasure

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1866). “The Life of Samuel Johnson”, p.87

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• Junk turns the user into a plant. Plants do not feel pain since pain has no function in a stationary organism. Junk is a pain killer. A plant has no libido in the human or animal sense. Junk replaces the sex drive. Seeding is the sex of the plant and the function of opium is to delay seeding. Perhaps the intense discomfort of withdrawal is the transition from plant back to animal, from a painless, sexless, timeless state back to sex and pain and time, from death back to life.

  William S. Burroughs

  Sex, Pain, Animal

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