J. A. Spender famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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'Never put off tomorrow what you can do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent morality, I am forever letting tomorrow's work slop into today's and doing painfully and nervously today what I could do quickly and easily tomorrow.
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All that the historians give us are little oases in the desert of time, and we linger fondly in these, forgetting the vast tracks between one and another that were trodden by the weary generations of men.
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We all denounce bores, but while we do so, let us remember that there is nobody who isn't a bore to somebody.
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Always take out your watch when a child asks you the time.
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It is cheap generosity which promises the future in compensation for the present.
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Hostility to youth is the worst vice of the middle-aged.
-- J. A. Spender
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Delay not to seize the hour!
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The era of procrastination...is coming to a close...we are entering a period of consequences - Winston Churchill (warning about the danger of appeasement
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I think a lot of the basis of the open source movement comes from procrastinating students...
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You made delay, but time will not, and lost time is never found again.
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Clear, written goals have a wonderful effect on your thinking. They motivate you and galvanize you into action. They stimulate your creativity, release your energy, and help you to overcome procrastination as much as any other factor.
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Delay is the deadliest form of denial.
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In putting off what one has to do, one runs the risk of never being able to do it.
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Some movies I see today have the most dramatic plot points but the actors are not playing them dramatically.
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Focus too much on the near-term and you won't get tomorrow's customers, focus too much on the long-term and you won't get today's.
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The struggle of today is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also.
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