Top 1200 Putting Things Off Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

When you face a problem, solve it then and there if you have the facts necessary to make a decision. Don't keep putting off decisions.

Balance in large measure is knowing the things that can be changed, putting them in proper perspective, and recognizing the things that will not change."

When you have to do something, you have to do it. Putting it off only makes it worse. Believe me, I know.

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

I found out how temperamental I am, yes. And that sometimes that can be kind of off-putting.

There are so many little girls who follow me and look up to me. I'm their role model, so I have to make sure I'm always being professional and not putting any swear words out there - just really putting positive things out there on the Internet.

I think being dead isn't any problem. It's the process of dying which is quite off-putting.

Knowledge comes by taking things apart, analysis. But wisdom comes by putting things together.

I'm more interested in - I was going to say putting on an interesting show, but then when I think about it, it's more like putting on several interesting shows. I think I'm more interested in doing funny things than calculating how I'll best be received.

A proper education enables young people to put their lives in order, which means knowing what things are more important than other things; it means putting first things first.

There is - I mean - I found early in life that righteous indignation is a little off-putting, and so I try to couch it with humor.

The very thing that attracts you to someone can end up putting you off.

I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.

Living in New York, there's so much pollution, it's really good to just give your skin a reboot and get off all those dead skin cells. Then, moisture is everything just because my skin gets dried out so much from putting on makeup and pulling it off all day that I love face masks.

It's really remarkable to see two candidates,[Donald] Trump and [Marco] Rubio, making things up and putting things out for which there is no evidence and no basis.

The idea of going off to an office every day and 'putting on my art hat' doesn't appeal.

It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out.

When I was a book editor, I got used to being told that my tastes were dark or edgy. These are not words that would've occurred to me, but I was told that enough that I have to believe it's true - that I like things that some other people find off-putting or upsetting. My job is to publish stuff that I really, really care about. That might mean that it doesn't sit well with everybody.

I can't give my secrets away. But I've definitely been putting in a lot of work, and you can kind of see that it pays off a little bit.

Sometimes, there is no harm in putting off a piece of work until another day.

We should not be strangling ourselves economically by not utilizing the resources we have been given or by putting them off-limits.

I don't like giving a gift just to cross the person off my list. They don't have to be extravagant or expensive things, they can be simple. Just helping my neighbor hang his lights was a great gift for me to give. He was an older gentleman who was having trouble putting up his lights, and it made me feel good to be able to help him.

I don't want to broadcast my personal life because I feel it's off-putting.

I think one of the difficult things for me was that I was putting on a brave face for my loved ones; they were putting on a brave face for me. But what got lost in that was the ability to talk about our fear.

So the only problem that you have is actually switch things in the department, changing things, controlling things, putting it maybe under federal supervision, and if you fix the department, you'll fix the problems - with police corruption, with brutality, with evidence tampering, all those things.

I've been working very hard off-off-off-off-off-off-off Broadway and doing little films and really sweating my butt off in tiny little black boxes.

Aristotle wore many rings and expensive clothes. ... Plato found this off-putting and unsuited for a philosopher.

It's not that hard to be good, you can be good off raw talent. But I feel like it's that extra step, doing work and putting a body of work in and doing things when nobody else is watching. When nobody else is telling you to do it, you're pushing yourself to do it.

I'm happy for all the small things a man never gets around to putting his finger on - the things we take for granted.

While there are so many great things in my life, you get older, and you have responsibilities. And things happen, like my dad dying - things that are tough to shake off. And there are things I'm still trying to figure out.

Don't keep putting your anger off. Until you go through it, you can't get out of it.

The comedy for the Democrats is that they're showing off too much. They need to be putting a boring white guy out there to kind of get a hold of things. Once the boring white guy is out there, then you bust out the junior senator from Illinois who smokes and does cocaine.

I don't want to do any more covers. It's good to learn to make things your own, but the education's over. 'Grace' is putting a lot of things to rest.

When you're on the court, there is certain things that you would do that you wouldn't do off the court. When you get off, you obviously have to be gracious and a humble person. When you are on the floor, be a team player. Championships are what you are defined by - legacy. Go about things the right way.

We know that people are less open in conversations if the other conversant puts a cell phone on the table. Even if it's turned off. The sign is enough to close the mind and make a prospective client or lover less likely to do what you ask. As people realize this, they'll start putting away phones or turning them off.

If you start to revise before you've reached the end, you're likely to begin dawdling with the revisions and putting off the difficult task of writing.

Cricket has always been about using street smarts and putting the opposition under pressure, on the field and off it.

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

When you get put in a position like that, to shave off the hair of the boss of the company, they're putting a lot of faith in you, and they believe in you.

Falling out of love is like losing weight. It's a lot easier putting it on than taking it off.

As an actor, you're used to putting on characters, taking them off, becoming someone else, doing your research, and working on that.

Subconciously, the things you listen to and you believe in, those things are going to come out, you know what I mean? I think you take that and make it your sound; that's what I do when I'm putting together genres of music.

Acting seems much easier than singing, in fact, because you are putting on a costume - whereas here you are taking everything off.

If you *stop* putting off homemaking until your hope of marriage develops into a reality, and *start* to develop an interesting home right now, it seems to me two things will happen: first, you will develop into the person you could be as you surround yourself with things that express your own tastes and ideas; and second, as you relax and become interested in areas of creativity, you will develop into a more interesting person to be with.

You can’t get second things by putting them first. You get second things only by putting first things first.

I don't know, but I always loved that image of a girl putting toenail polish on a guy - her boyfriend, or something like that. Or a guy waking up in the morning and reaching over and putting on his girlfriend's shirt. Like Keith Richards putting on one of Anita Pallenberg's blouses, or Courtney Love putting nail polish on Kurt Cobain.

A lot of actors do that - they blame their failure on their agents or their photos. But that is just putting off the real issues.

It might be one thing to think about putting on a dress, but when you're actually putting on a dress, it's a weird thing, because you're going, "Huh. I'm putting on a dress. Do I leave my underwear on? Do I get some other underwear? Is there something special I should wear?" All that dumb stuff. I'd never had any interest in putting on my mom's clothes, except to think, "Well, they are nice clothes..."

Outlining is like putting on training wheels. It gives me the courage to write, but we always go off the outline.

Yes, but more than being a designer, I'm more of a stylist, because I don't sew and I don't sketch, but I'm good at putting things together, choosing things that are chic and glossing over the aesthetics of things.

I'm very good at having time off. I tend to take whole years off - I had 1994 and 1997 off. I find it very easy; I just love pottering around doing normal things.

My whole team, it wasn't about putting the album out, it was about getting off the record company and going independent or going to another label. To the point we were like, 'Listen, just take 'Lasers.' You can have whatever percentage off the next ten records I do for the rest of my life. I just do not want to be here anymore.'

If it weren’t so off-putting for my co-workers. I’d wear my flannel, one-piece 'Hannah Montana' pajamas, like, all the time!

The last time I went back to a girl's house for an impromptu house party I spent most of the night straightening out rugs, putting down coasters and alphabetising DVDs while all around me people got off with whoever was closest and gradually headed off to various rooms to make more mess, no doubt.

You must master the habit of procrastination and eliminate it from your wake-up. This habit of putting off until tomorrow that which you should have done last week or last year or a score of years ago is gnawing at the very vitals of your being and you can accomplish nothing until you throw it off.

Bad behaviour on TV is quite nauseating and putting off.

When you're not putting a bunch of chemicals into everbody, people tend not to fly off the handle.

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.

There is no merit in putting off a war for a year if, when it comes, it is far worse or much harder to win.

It's very easy to keep putting off having a family if you enjoy your job, but you just have to get on with life.