Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.

When you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that in itself is a choice.

If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.

It is only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth – and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up – that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.

How soon ‘not now’ becomes ‘never.'

In a moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing to do, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.

A year from now you may wish you had started today.

If you don’t pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves.

You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.

Think of many things; do one.

Procrastination is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fled, and to the mercies of a moment leaves the vast concerns of an eternal scene.

To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favour of holding meetings.

Follow effective actions with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

How wonderful it is, that nobody needs to wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

Much of the stress that people feel doesn’t come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they started.

Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them.

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

It is not really work if you are having fun.

Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.

As a master of graphic creation, as teacher, historian, and roving ambassador of comics, Jerry Robinson has ensured that future generations of talented kids will continue to imagine and then put marks on paper.

You can go as far as you want to go.

The first time you meet someone theyre a new acquaintance the second time you have a bit of an understanding and the third time you meet them youre old hats.

I'm from the gulf coast of Louisiana.

A dutiful mother is someone who follows every step her child makes...And a good mother is someone whose child wants to follow her.

Well, I grew up as a democrat.

At a certain point, you have to take the rearview mirrors off the bus and focus forward, and that's what we've sought to do.

I have learned that I must take a holiday at least once each year if I want to survive!

Our fresh technical resources have furthered the disintegration of solid masses of masonry into slender piers, with consequent far-reaching economies in bulk, space, weight, and haulage.

The extremes of who I'd love to be onstage are David Bowie, Prince, and, I don't know, Bjork.

Are you living for the things you are praying for?

What we want, above all things on earth in our public men, is independence. It is one great defect in the character of the public men of America that there is that real want of independence; and, in this respect, a most marked contrast exists between public men in this country and in Great Britain.

Few revolutions succeed, and when they do, you often discover they did not gain what you hoped for, and you condemn yourself to perpetual fear, as the parties you defeated may always regain power and work for your ruin.

Most people think that a widow is inhabiting some elegiac world of - it's like Mozart's 'Requiem Mass.' You know, it's very beautiful and elevated thoughts and some measure of dignity. I didn't have that experience at all. I had one pratfall after another.

As a producer, what you want to do is make the next hit. But you also want to lead the audience into wanting to watch different movies. You have to vary your content.

I went to New York to be born again.

Probably the most difficult things were my favorite parts. The make-up and the big fight sequence at the end of the movie were very difficult but really fun and challenging.

In my memoir, I admit that I've been as fearful of success as of failure. In fact, when 'Passages' was published, I so dreaded bad reviews that I ran away to Italy with a girlfriend and our children to hide out.

We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.

Spirituality is... the awareness that survival is the savage fight between you and yourself.

We are obliged to respect defend and maintain the common bonds of union and fellowship that exist among all members of the human race.

Writing for the page is only one form of writing for the eye. Wherever solemn inscriptions are put up in public places, there is a sense that the site and the occasion demand a form of writing which goes beyond plain informative prose. Each word is so valued that the letters forming it are seen as objects of solemn beauty.

You have to persevere and fortify your pertinacity until the will to good becomes a disposition to good.