"Inaction that results from indulgence is Procrastination. Inaction that results from intention is Patience."

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Source : Rory Vaden (2015). “Procrastinate on Purpose: 5 Permissions to Multiply Your Time”, p.113, Penguin

Rory Vaden

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“But just as it sometimes happens that the most temperate people, who have never acquired the habit of drinking alcohol, or even a taste for it, are tormented by the fear that somehow or other they will one day find themselves drunk, so Isabelle perpetually feared that she might be betrayed into an impulsive act that was destructive to such order as reason had imposed on life. Therefore she was forever running her faculty of analysis over in her mind with the preposterous zeal of an adolescent running a razor over his beardless chin.”
“Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.”
“Von Neumann languages do not have useful properties for reasoning about programs. Axiomatic and denotational semantics are precise tools for describing and understanding conventional programs, but they only talk about them and cannot alter their ungainly properties. Unlike von Neumann languages, the language of ordinary algebra is suitable both for stating its laws and for transforming an equation into its solution, all within the "language.”

Source : "Can Programming Be Liberated From the von Neumann Style?". John Backus' 1977 Turing Award lecture, published in "Communications of the ACM", Volume 21, No. 8 (pp. 639-640), August 1978.
“[The American President] has to take all sorts of abuse from liars and demagogues.â€¦ The people can never understand why the President does not use his supposedly great power to make â€™em behave. Well, all the President is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.”
“Pure friendship's well-feigned blush.”
“Failure is sucess if we learn from it.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.”
“I think more people need to make out.”

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