Postponement Quotes

• Whatever you want to do, do it now. There are only so many tomorrows.

  Michael Landon

  Motivational, Positive, Death

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Buddha says this is how one should be - no desire, because all desires are futile. They are about the future; life is in the present. All desires distract you from the present, all desires distract you from life, all desires are destructive of life, all desires are postponements of life. Life is now and the desire takes you away, farther and farther away from now. And when we see that our life is misery we go on throwing the responsibility on others, and nobody is responsible except us.

  Rajneesh

  Responsibility, Desire, Goes On

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• Postponement: The father of failure.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Father, Writing

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• Stop putting it off! Procrastination breeds guilt, guilt breeds depression, and depression breeds failure.

  Barbara Corcoran

  Procrastination, Guilt

  Twitter post from Jun 28, 2016

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• Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement.

  Henry Miller

  Life, Procrastination, Long

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.96, New Directions Publishing

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• The larger loneliness of our lives evolves from our unwillingness to spend ourselves, stir ourselves. We are always damping down our inner weather, permitting ourselves the comforts of postponement, of rehearsals

  Carol Shields

  Loneliness, Weather, Rehearsal

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• Thus, true long-term change is brought about not by destructive passion of the moment but by well-reasoned constructive action. Violent shock of Armageddon that leaves nothing in its wake but a blank slate is not a solution, only a postponement of progress.

  Vera Nazarian

  Passion, Long, Progress

  Source: fantasyworlds.wordpress.com

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• The writer is the duelist who never fights at the stated hour, who gathers up an insult, like another curious object, a collector's item, spreads it out on his desk later, and then engages in a duel with it verbally. Some people call it weakness. I call it postponement. What is weakness in the man becomes a quality in the writer. For he preserves, collects what will explode later in his work. That is why the writer is the loneliest man in the world; because he lives, fights, dies, is reborn always alone; all his roles are played behind a curtain. In life he is an incongruous figure.

  Anais Nin

  Fighting, Men, People

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• Mortality: not acquittal but a series of postponements is what we hope for.

  Mason Cooley

  Mortality, Acquittal, Series

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  Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Being an adult is the ability to postpone a want for the sake of a family need.

  Chris Hogan

  Adults, Needs, Want

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• Despair and postponement are cowardice and defeat. Men were born to succeed, not to fail.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Procrastination, Men, Despair

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.109, Courier Corporation

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• Action cures fear. Indecision, postponement, on the other hand, fuel fear.

  David J. Schwartz

  Motivational, Hands, Fuel

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• Ever since man began to till the soil and learned not to eat the seed grain but to plant it and wait for harvest, the postponement of gratification has been the basis of a higher standard of living and of civilization.

  S. I. Hayakawa

  Men, Civilization, Waiting

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• Indecision is debilitating; it feeds upon itself; it is, one might almost say, habit-forming. Not only that, but it is contagious; it transmits itself to others. . . . Business is dependent upon action. It cannot go forward by hesitation. Those in executive positions must fortify themselves with facts and accept responsibility for decisions based upon them. Often greater risk is involved in postponement than in making a wrong decision.

  Heinz Hopf

  Business, Responsibility, Decision

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• People who are not enjoying their lives in the present have lust for life in the future. Lust for life is always in the future. It is a postponement. They are saying, 'We cannot enjoy today so we will enjoy tomorrow.' They are saying, 'Right this moment we cannot celebrate, so let there be a tomorrow so that we can celebrate.'

  Rajneesh

  People, Lust, Today

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• Whatever your sex or position, life is a battle in which you are to show your pluck, and woe be to the coward. Whether passed on a bed of sickness or a tented field, it is ever the same fair play and admits no foolish distinction. Despair and postponement are cowardice and defeat. Men were born to succeed, not to fail.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Courage, Sex, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.59, BookBaby

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• We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its urgency, 'here and now' without any possible postponement. Life is fired at us point-blank.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Inspirational, Life, Motivation

  "'Misión de la Universidad' ('Mission of the University')". Book by Jose Ortega y Gasset, translated by Howard Lee Nostrand, p. 73, 1946.

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• I had a mother who taught me there is no such thing as failure. It is just a temporary postponement of success.

  Buddy Ebsen

  Mother, Taught, Temporary

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• Never check email first thing in the morning. Instead, complete your most important task before 11:00 A.M. to avoid using lunch or reading email as a postponement excuse.

  Tim Ferriss

  Morning, Reading, Lunch

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• Education itself is a putting off, a postponement; we are told to work hard to get good results. Why? So we can get a good job. What is a good job? One that pays well. Oh. And that's it? All this suffering, merely so that we can earn a lot of money, which, even if we manage it, will not solve our problems anyway? It's a tragically limited idea of what life is all about.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Jobs, Hard Work, Learning

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• Life's only choosing when to die. Life's a big postponement because the choice is so difficult. It's a tremendous relief not to have to choose.

  Anthony Burgess

  Interesting, Choices, Relief

  Anthony Burgess (1996). “The Wanting Seed”, p.234, W. W. Norton & Company

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• What does the frontal cortex do? Gratification postponement, executive function, long-term planning, and impulse control. Basically, it makes you do the harder thing.

  Robert M. Sapolsky

  Impulse Control, Long, Doe

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future.

  Norman O. Brown

  Dynamics, Enjoyment, Capitalism

  Norman O. Brown (2012). “Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History”, p.273, Wesleyan University Press

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• Genuine goodness isn't discovered through postponement but must exist now or not at all. It cannot be based on what is not. We must find it in what is and what we truly see.

  H. E Davey

  Goodness, Genuine

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