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Edward Young Quote: 'Procrastination is the thief of time. ...'

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There's nothing wrong with procrastination. Or is there? I'll leave it to you to decide, but only if you have the time.
Craig Brown
Tags: Time You Only
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Tomorrow is a thief of pleasure.


Rex Harrison
Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.
Bill Cosby
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They are shooting The Thief Lord in Venice at the moment.


Cornelia Funke
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George Harrison wanted to play the thief in 'Holy Mountain.'


Alejandro Jodorowsky
'Purple Plumeria' I dithered over for months and then wrote the whole thing between the beginning of July and end of August. The dithering and procrastination time was three times the writing times.
Lauren Willig
Tags: Time Thing Then
Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Tags: Time You Know
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I think plenty of games - from 'Thief' to 'Zelda' - have shown that sneaking around can be fun.


Warren Spector
I swing between procrastination and being really thorough so either way things aren't getting done quickly.
Freema Agyeman
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I always have one or two, sometimes more, Navajo or other tribes' cultural elements in mind when I start a plot. In Thief of Time, I wanted to make readers aware of Navajo attitude toward the dead, respect for burial sites.
Tony Hillerman
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Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom.


George MacDonald
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And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.
Benjamin Franklin
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My life is a monument to procrastination, to the art of putting things off until later, or much later, or possibly never.
Craig Brown
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For me, most of the anxiety and difficulty of writing takes place in the act of not writing. It's the procrastination, the thinking about writing that's difficult.
Adam Mansbach
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If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.
Thomas de Quincey
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He who receives money in trust to administer for the benefit of its owner, and uses it either for his own interest or against the wishes of its rightful owner, is a thief.
Jose Marti
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Therefore, don't let sinners take courage to think they will be favoured like the thief on the cross; for we see on the other side, they may be like the hardened one, and reproach death itself.
Elias Hicks
If you can manipulate news, a judge can manipulate the law. A smart lawyer can keep a killer out of jail, a smart accountant can keep a thief from paying taxes, a smart reporter could ruin your reputation- unfairly.
Mario Cuomo
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I think the worst and most insidious procrastination for me is research. I will be looking for some bit of fact or figure to include in the novel, and before I know, I've wasted an entire morning delving into that subject matter without a word written.
James Rollins
Tags: Morning Me Think
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Why is partying and having a good time bad?


Tara Reid
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