"The fantasy of doing a task perfectly is common with procrastinators; they set the bar for success very high. Then they are afraid to approach it. As the deadline approaches, they must set the bar lower."

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Source : Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. October 4, 2012.

John Perry

#Tasks Quotes #Bars Quotes #Common Quotes

“Some of the reasons John McCain lost in 2008 were his lackluster campaign, his refusal to showcase Obama's extreme liberalism and, thus, his failure to demonstrate why he would make a better president than Obama.”
“In temperance there is ever cleanliness and elegance.”
“This "human thing" is the permanent process of seeking the sacred through revealing what is hidden. It is an ever ongoing and indefinite process of understanding and interpretation.”
“What I did, I did without choice...”
“There are actresses who've had expensive work done and look great, so I'm not holier-than-thou about it. But it wouldn't be for me, perhaps because I've already been in hospital and wouldn't want to volunteer myself for it again.”
“I am not for raising taxes in a recession, especially when it comes to job creators that we need so desperately to start creating jobs again.”
“I think there's something in the human psyche that we're titillated by the person who flies too close to the candle and their wings get singed.”

Source : "Kubrick, Inside a Film Artist's Maze". Book by Thomas Allen Nelson, p. 10, 2000.
“For a player to be good enough to play for Liverpool, he must be prepared to run through a brick wall for me then come out fighting on the other side.”

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