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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether. -- Epictetus
I was already at an age when putting off anything was a bad idea. -- Philip Sington
Put it off for a bit. All life is putting off. Well, not entirely. -- Anthony Burgess
Sometimes, there is no harm in putting off a piece of work until another day. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it. -- Richard Miller
If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it. -- Richard Miller
The Christian life means putting off the character of the world and putting on the character of Christ. -- Jim George
In putting off what one has to do, one runs the risk of never being able to do it. -- Charles Baudelaire
The problem with putting off things you've always wanted to do is that eventually you run out of always. -- Robert Breault
Older people do a better job of managing their impulses, and so they're better able to put off putting off. -- James Surowiecki
Stop putting off today madam; you'll find that all those forgotten tomorrows have piled up into a bunch of old yesterdays. -- The Music Man
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. -- Keeley Hawes
There is no better day than today to do the things you've been putting off. Take action; it's the only way to change your life! -- Hal Elrod
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. -- Dale Carnegie
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. -- Winston Churchill
Why should we be startled by death? Life is a constant putting off of the mortal coil - coat, cuticle, flesh and bones, all old clothes. -- Henry David Thoreau
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. -- Pearl S. Buck
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. -- Barbara Sher
The older we get, the less prone we are to putting off what we really want to do, therefore you will be able to seek out new directions later. -- Wendy Lustbader
Most people keep waiting on happiness, putting off happiness until they're successful or until they achieve some goal, which means we limit both happiness and success. That formula doesn't work. -- Shawn Achor
There definitely is that element of guys who like to party and have a good time and... putting off for as long as possible the idea that they'll actually have to settle down -- Luke Wilson
Even when we know what is right, too often we fail to act. More often we grab greedily for the day, letting tomorrow bring what it will, putting off the unpleasant and unpopular. -- Bernard Baruch
There definitely is that element of guys who like to party and have a good time and... putting off for as long as possible the idea that they'll actually have to settle down. -- Luke Wilson
Each say following another, either hastening or putting off our death--what pleasure does it bring? I count that man worthless whois cheered by empty hopes. No, a noble man must either live or die well. -- Sophocles
I received a grant from The Ford Foundation to write a book for kids about urban perception, or how people experience cities, but I kept putting off writing it. Instead I started to write what became The Phantom Tollbooth. -- Norton Juster
I received a grant from The Ford Foundation to write a book for kids about urban perception, or how people experience cities, but I kept putting off writing it. Instead I started to write what became The Phantom Tollbooth -- Norton Juster
The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things. -- Jorge Luis Borges
Many cities end up putting off things because they want to understand everything. They don't understand that innovating is about starting. Taking care of a city is a process that you start, and then give the population space to respond. -- Jaime Lerner
[Children] use up the same part of my head as poetry does. To deal with children is a matter of terrific imaginative identification. And the children have to come first. It's no use putting off their evening meal for two months. -- Libby Houston
I put off writing the first Left Behind book for a year because I got invited to assist Billy Graham in his memoirs, and had we known what we were putting off for a year, we might not have put it off. -- Jerry B. Jenkins
The habit of always putting off an experience until you can afford it, or until the time is right, or until you know how to do it is one of the greatest burglars of joy. Be deliberate, but once you've made up your mind -jump in. -- Charles R. Swindoll
There's something about approaching 50 that's very liberating. Political struggle has always been a 24-hour-a-day job for me. I felt I could never take time out for myself. Now I feel I owe it to myself to develop in ways I've been putting off all my life. -- Assata Shakur
As a people, we have become obsessed with Health. There is something fundamentally, radically unhealthy about all this. We do not seem to be seeking more exuberance in living as much as staving off failure, putting off dying. We have lost all confidence in the human body. -- Lewis Thomas
He gave her a bright fake smile; so much of life was a putting off of unhappiness for another time. Nothing was ever lost by delay. He had a dim idea that perhaps if one delayed long enough, things were taken out of one's hands altogether by death. -- Graham Greene
I'm going to stop putting things off, starting tomorrow! -- Sam Levenson
But I'm looking at life, and I'm putting nothing off. -- Lynn Redgrave
I don't want to broadcast my personal life because I feel it's off-putting. -- Kate Bosworth
Falling out of love is like losing weight. It's a lot easier putting it on than taking it off. -- Aretha Franklin
Outlining is like putting on training wheels. It gives me the courage to write, but we always go off the outline. -- Hallie Ephron
My life is a monument to procrastination, to the art of putting things off until later, or much later, or possibly never. -- Craig Brown
If you think you know where you're going to be 10 years from now, that's where you're at now. You're just putting it off. -- Larry Poons
Sometimes when you're putting the work in it just seems so, so hard, and you never know when that work's going to pay off. -- Maria Sharapova
Tax reform is taking the taxes off things that have been taxed in the past and putting taxes on things that haven't been taxed before. -- Art Buchwald
To combat social awkwardness, I would just act like I couldn't be bothered - that kind of aloof persona or aloof demeanor. It's so off-putting. -- Janeane Garofalo
There's a Washington standard of casually putting things off the record. It's really gone too far. I don't know an easy way to turn it back. -- Adam Clymer
If you look through the shelves of science books, you'll find row after row of books written by men. This can be terribly off-putting for women. -- Lisa Randall
In 1999, I just came out of putting out the song 'Vivrant Thing' and 'Breathe and Stop' off the 'Amplified' album. Clive Davis signed me to Arista. -- Q-Tip
When I criticize Joseph Beuys or Francis Bacon, nobody calls those opinions anti-male. Putting female artists or their subject matter off-limits is itself sexist and limiting. -- Jerry Saltz
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. -- Al Franken
I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music. -- Adam McKay
Also, there are seats in the diner that always fall off the table. If you have a scene where you're packing up at the end of the day and putting them on the table, they just slide off. -- Dannii Minogue
Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible. -- George Horace Lorimer
Most lives are spent putting on and taking off masks. -- Gore Vidal
When putting on accessories, take off the last thing you've put on. -- Coco Chanel
When a job is to be done there's no use putting it off. -- Sherwood Anderson
The very thing that attracts you to someone can end up putting you off. -- Anne Tyler
Such a positive move by Uruguay - bringing 2 players off and putting 2 players on. -- John Helm
Stop putting it off! Procrastination breeds guilt, guilt breeds depression, and depression breeds failure. -- Barbara Corcoran
Aristotle wore many rings and expensive clothes. ... Plato found this off-putting and unsuited for a philosopher. -- Claudius Aelianus
Putting off an easy thing makes it hard. Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible. -- George C. Lorimer
Prostitutes are paid for taking their clothes off. Celebrities are paid for putting others' clothes on. -- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I'm a big believer in putting things off, In fact, I even put off procrastinating. -Ella Varner -- Lisa Kleypas
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So much of life [is] a putting-off of unhappiness for another time. Nothing [is] ever lost by delay. -- Graham Greene
Putting the makeup on, not a problem. Taking the makeup off, every night.... it makes your face swell. -- Mila Kunis
When you're not putting a bunch of chemicals into everbody, people tend not to fly off the handle. -- Blake Judd
The thing with crowns is, it isn't the putting them on that's the problem, it's the taking them off. -- Terry Pratchett
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! -- Ryan Reynolds
half the good intentions of my life have been frustrated by my unfortunate habit of putting things off till to-morrow. -- Maria Edgeworth
Yeah I did put my clothes on, but my clothes took off... Could it be my clothes are putting me on?? -- Micky Dolenz
As an actor, you're used to putting on characters, taking them off, becoming someone else, doing your research, and working on that. -- Angela Bassett
Hmm. Petty? Yes. Ineffectual? Yes. Infuriating and off-putting? Yes. Counterproductive? Yes. It's got to be a product of the French Foreign Ministry. -- Glenn Reynolds
Tomorrow, the busiest day of the week. I'm a big believer in putting things off, In fact, I even put off procrastinating. -- Elle Varner
When you have to do something, you have to do it. Putting it off only makes it worse. Believe me, I know. -- Sarah Addison Allen
Acting seems much easier than singing, in fact, because you are putting on a costume - whereas here you are taking everything off. -- Lou Doillon
...my least favorite actress of all time, Helena Bonham Carter. I find her lack of a neck very off-putting and especially her acting. -- Edward Gorey
In fact, I bought our first family television with my own money, putting it on credit and then paying it off every week. -- Dolly Parton
Without fail, the days that I start off the right way with a little devotional time and putting God first. Those days are really good days. -- Larry Gatlin
For writing, getting off our buts means getting on our butts-putting it into a chair and not moving from the chair for a set period of time. -- Peter McWilliams

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