Diane Duane Quotes

You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

In delay there lies no plenty.

You've got work to do. Don't put this off. And don't take the long view, here. You know? Life is today and tomorrow and - and if you're lucky, next week.

Deadlines comes as a surprise....superb: a new genre, in fact, combining the pleasures of list-making with that of last-minute eaves-dropping.

Sooner or later usually means too late

But with regard to critical occasions, it often happens that all moments seem comfortably remote until the last.

"When are we going to get going?" Chris says. "What's your hurry?" I ask. "I just want to get going." "There's nothing up ahead that's any better than it is right here."

Ah! the clock is always slow; it is later than you think.

We live, understandably enough, with the sense of urgency; our clock, like Baudelaire's, has had the hands removed and bears the legend, "It is later than you think." But with us it is always a little too late for mind, yet never too late for honest stupidity; always a little too late for understanding, never too late for righteous, bewildered wrath; always too late for thought, never too late for naïve moralizing. We seem to like to condemn our finest but not our worst qualities by pitting them against the exigency of time.

Never before have we had so little time in which to do so much.

Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.

If you plan to face tomorrow, do it soon.

We cannot defer this responsibility to posterity. Time will not wait.

We are now faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there is such a thing as being too late. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Life often leaves us standing bare, naked, and dejected with a lost opportunity. . . . Over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words, 'Too late.' ... Now let us begin. Now let us rededicate ourselves to the long and bitter, but beautiful, struggle for a new world.

Sooner or later. It had better be sooner. Later is like the horizon; it recedes as you approach.

Sometimes one makes a distinction between urgency and importance. And while disasters are urgent, the basically most important thing is education. And that's what gives it ultimately urgency too, because unless you do it now, this important thing gets again and again postponed.

I don't need time, I need a deadline.

If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

We must be diligent today. To wait until tomorrow is too late. Death comes unexpectedly. How can we bargain with it?

No time like the present

Take massive action. So many people wait until they have all the answers.

There’s only two times in life, there’s now and there’s too late.

Be quick, but don't hurry.

You don't have to do it straight away, but just do it before it gets really bad.