Deferral Quotes

Delays in or avoidance of decision making was chronic.

So much of life [is] a putting-off of unhappiness for another time. Nothing [is] ever lost by delay.

The safest refuge when dealing with urgent, ticklish problems is sought in shirking responsibility, in gaining time by the formation of Committees, with the requisite Sub-Committees to tackle the problem. It is the well-known practice of Promise, Pause, Prepare, Postpone and end by letting things alone

It is a great deed to leave nothing for tomorrow.

At one point, the old school club retires and you're next up to bat, but if you stop before your time, you will see someone else live your dream.

Capitalism’s success undermines the virtues (thrift, industriousness, deferral of gratification) that are prerequisites for its continuing success. Socialism’s cultural contradiction is that it is parasitic on capitalism, which must produce the wealth that socialism redistributes — until the engine of wealth creation, battered by socialism’s redistributive agenda, sputters.

Let's just get a deal done then let's worry about expanding it.

To help [people] understand that what you shortcut today, cannot be made up tomorrow. So it's like, I'm not going to do anything today, and I'm going to do the wrong thing today and somehow tomorrow it will get a lot better."

1) Différance is the systematic play of differences, of the traces of differences, of the spacing by means of which elements are related to each other. This spacing is the simultaneously active and passive (the a of différance indicates this indecision as concerns activity and passivity, that which cannot be governed by or distributed between the terms of this opposition) production of the intervals without which the "full" terms would not signify, would not function.

I'll be like Scarlett O'Hara-I'll think about it tomorrow.

The poor, the unsuccessful, the unhappy, the unhealthy are the ones who use the word tomorrow the most.

Dreaming of a tomorrow, which tomorrow, will be as distant then as 'tis today.

Capitalism’s success undermines the virtues (thrift, industriousness, deferral of gratification) that are prerequisites for its continuing success.

Now is the operative word. Everything you put in your way is just a method of putting off the hour when you could actually be doing your dream.

No man ever served God by doing things tomorrow.

The nation’s founding fathers deferred many of their own cherished plans until the nation paid off its debts.