Karl Pilkington Quotes

Otherwise, my whole career has just been flinging myself at whatever is most overdue first and letting everything else stack up.

I used to delay doing stuff that I just didn't want to deal with - things like putting the garden hose away properly or doing the dishes right after dinner. Now I have this little voice in my head that says, 'I know you don't want to do this, but just do it anyway.' In other words, there's far less stuff that I put off until tomorrow.

Resist beginnings: it is too late to employ medicine when the evil has grown strong by inveterate habit.

Even a correct decision is wrong when it was taken too late.

Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends.

If you defer investing your time and energy until you see that you need to, chances are it will already be too late.

Every duty which is bidden to wait returns with seven fresh duties at its back.

One of the best ways of avoiding necessary and even urgent tasks is to seem to be busily employed on things that are already done.

Sooner or later usually means too late

Solving a problem in a hundred years is, practically speaking, the same as not solving it at all.

The longer we delay, the more we will pay.

It's the task that's never started that's more tiresome.

Eat that frog! If you have to eat 3 frogs, eat the biggest and uggliest one first.

History punishes those that come late to it.

The easiest thing to do in the world is to neglect the important and give in to the urgent.

We are faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words ‘Too Late’.

if a thing is to be done, there is no time like the hour that has not struck.

Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.

Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report written on birds that he'd had three months to write, which was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unopened books about birds, immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead. Then my father sat down beside him put his arm around my brother's shoulder, and said, "Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.

Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.

When habit has strengthened our sense of duties, they leave us no time for other things; but when young we neglect them and this gives us time for anything.

If you plan to face tomorrow, do it soon.

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

Sometimes they work, and sometimes they just won't. Sometimes you get hung up on them. When that happens, you just throw it back, and maybe come back to it two or three weeks later.

One’s objective should be to get it right, get it quick, get it out and get it over. Your problem won’t improve with age.