Gladys Bronwyn Stern famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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One thing that's good about procrastination is that you always have something planned for tomorrow.
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When I was very young, I was disgracefully intolerant but when I passed the thirty mark I prided myself on having learned the beautiful lesson that all things were good, and equally good. That, however, was really laziness. Now, thank goodness, I've sorted out what matters and what doesn't. And I'm beginning to be intolerant again.
-- Gladys Bronwyn Stern
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The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.
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Procrastination is suicide on the installment plan.
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He who puts off nothing till tomorrow has done a great deal.
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To procrastinate seems inherent in man, for if you do to-day that you may enjoy to-morrow it is but deferring the enjoyment; so that to be idle or industrious, vicious or virtuous, is but with a view of procrastinating the one or the other.
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Your success in life and work will be determined by the kinds of habits that you develop over time. The habit of setting priorities, overcoming procrastination, and getting on with your most important task is a mental and physical skill. As such, this habit is learnable through practice and repetition, over and over again, until it locks into your subsconscious mind and becomes a permanent part of your behaviour.
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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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Tomorrow, more's the pity, Away we both must hie, To air the ditty and to earth I.
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Execute like there's no tomorrow, strategize like there will be.
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I told my boyfriend after three weeks that I wanted to marry him and that we could do it tomorrow.
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Tomorrow you will belong to someone else," Finn said. "But tonight, you're with me
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