"The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day."
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"No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire today."
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"The road to hell is paved with good intentions."
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"In delay there lies no plenty."
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"By the streets of 'by and by,' one arrives at the house of 'never'."
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"Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes in a day."
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"Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile."
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"Delay leads impotent and snail-paced beggary."
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"The problem with tomorrow is that I have never seen a tomorrow. Tomorrow does not exist. Tomorrow only exist in the mind of dreamers and losers."
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"Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it."
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"You must not procrastinate. Rather, you should make preparations so that even if you did die tonight, you would have no regrets. If you develop an appreciation for the uncertainty and imminence of death, your sense of the importance of using your time wisely will get stronger and stronger."
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"Delay not to seize the hour!"
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"Your 'frog' should be the most difficult item on your things-to-do list, the one where you're most likely to procrastinate; because, if you eat that first, it'll give you energy and momentum for the rest of the day."
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"Today's greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow."
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"Distraction and procrastination come in a variety of flavors... when I'm distracted and I walk over and stare out the window, it's a very different experience than when I feed the distraction by cramming in a few emails or make a phone call."
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"Procrastinate now, don't put it off."
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"Don't put off for tomorrow what you should do today."
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"People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now."
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"Nothing was ever done so systematically as nothing is being done now."
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"If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it."
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