Procrastination: Hard work often pays off after time, but laziness always pays off now
Larry Kersten
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Hard work often pays off after time, but laziness always pays off now
AUTHOR UNKNOWN Hard work has a future. Laziness pays off now.
BUMPER STICKER Hard work has future payoff. Laziness pays off now.
UNKNOWN Hard work always pays off, whatever you do.
DUSTIN LYNCH Hard work always pays off some kind of way.
DANTE HALL I work hard at my job, and I guess hard work pays off.
WALT HANDELSMAN Hard work pays off - hard work beats talent any day, but if you're talented and work hard, it...
ROBERT GRIFFIN III Nothing guarantees a person effortless wealth as when his SEASON comes.
AULIQ-ICE Hard work pays peanuts, smart work pays dividends.
APURVA GAGLANI We work so hard in the (weight room). And I guess it pays off in the end.
CORBIN MARTIN You always pull for the underdog, and Billy works extremely hard. He comes in early and gets shots, ...
ANTONIO DANIELS We have more confidence in ourselves. We have seen that hard work pays off. We're not overconfident....
JUSTIN ABNEE Hard work increases the probability of serendipity.
KEN POIROT It's like whoa, this is what you want to be doing. This is why you put in all the hard work. Why am ...
DAMON HOLLINS Tenacity and patience pays off.
PAT MULROY It's shown and proved that hard work pays off. Make goals, achieve them and replace them with ne...
LANCE GROSS Our guards really worked hard this summer on their shooting. You can't rely on your shooting all the...
ROBERT BROWNING Through the winter months, during basketball season, he found time to get to the weight room and to ...
JEFF JODON He does better when there's better competition. That hard work pays off. I think he thinks about sho...
BRAD FAIRCHILD Being a nerd really pays off sometimes.
KEN JENNINGS It's a good honor for our kids to be recognized for these accomplishments. It's just another way of ...
SHANE SISCO Matching that level of success is going to be very difficult, but the kids are working hard and hope...
BRIAN ADKINS Like I said from day one, I'm just going to stay humble. I know that hard work pays off. It's just o...
AUSTIN BROOKS No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today
LORD CHESTERFIELD I think the close work I do as a translator pays off in my writing - I'm always searching for mu...
LYDIA DAVIS I have a strong drive to succeed. I say that hard work pays off. And so far, it has for me. I'm an a...
CASEY LUTHER But that's what we want, we want to be the best in the section and the best in league. The target on...
KAITLIN CAREY In day-to-day life, you have stimulus to behave unethically, but in the long term, it always pays of...
JORGE PAULO LEMANN I like playing with those guys. We kind of have to find a balance -- we're very offensive minded wit...
ARTURO ALVAREZ I like spending a lot of time fine-tuning all the small characters. I think it really pays off.
ELLEN CHENOWETH We're a bit young and inexperienced. We had some opportunities, but [Woodland's] experience pays off...
CAMERON WALKER I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true -- hard work pays off. If you want to ...
RAY BRADBURY Waiter trainers claim that an investment in education pays off very quickly for restaurants.
DAVID SAX God often pays debts without money.
PROVERB I know there's a shot in that game I could have made, and if I'd been concentrating a bit more, who ...
BRIAN DOELLMAN I was garbage, ... I lived to work out that whole offseason (between the 2003 and 2004 seasons). I w...
CHARLES DAVIS The Indian Educational Value
Hard work pays peanuts. Smart work pays dividends.
When you are broke, ...
APURVA GAGLANI Nobody knows for sure, but I don't know of another school that won a state football title in only it...
BRIAN RECTOR why these films aren't loved by audiences anymore. What we have to do is make great films -- that al...
WALT DISNEY Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness; no laziness...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Know the true value of time: snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, ...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, ...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness; no laziness; ...
LORD CHESTERFIELD To be an Olympian - not many people can say that. But first of all, I've got to make the team, a...
SONNY BILL WILLIAMS I think it's motivation to show these younger guys that hard work pays off, to show that what we've ...
ALANDO TUCKER The third quarter we normally come out to play because we really want it, and that's the time when a...
BRIAN BILLINGS It's a pretty cerebral play. There's an awful lot of passion and emotion, but where it really pays o...
JOSEPH MCGRATH Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, ...
LORD CHESTERFIELD A man often pays dear for a small frugality
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Love is the heart’s best tenant; it always pays its rent on time.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO I think of it as an opportunity that presented itself. If this pays off I'll be really happy.
ERIC KOHEN Most airlines prefer to see a four-year degree on the résumé. It pays off in the end.
JEN MCSKIMMING My answer to pressure is to focus in on the work and hope it pays off. If it doesn't, at least I can...
JULIA LOUIS-DREYFUS A Lannister always pays his debts.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you w...
RAY BRADBURY T.A. (Aldridge) made us shoot 100 threes a day, then I would shoot 100 more at home. You get tired, ...
BRITTANY BUSH I think that anything that you do, any accomplishment that you make, you have to work for. And I'...
CAMERON DIAZ If I really thought about it, in a way it's depressing. To work thousands of hours for three-tenths ...
ANDREW ROCK Doing things for others always pays dividends...
CLAUDE M. BRISTOL Who pays for that?
STEVE HAMILTON It pays off if you work hard. Today on the back nine I didn't think I hit a good shot, but on the fr...
JARRYD LENTZ We are very strong in some events and we have so many swimmers. I'm just hoping that our depth pays ...
BRIAN HOLM Doing so gives the rest of the taxpayers confidence that the system has integrity and accountability...
HARVEY BENNETT Procrastination isn't the problem, it's the solution. So procrastinate now, don't put it off.
ELLEN DEGENERES We've been in some tough games and we haven't won all of them. When it comes to a game like this, yo...
JOE RIVERS The cost of claiming value comes with the time you invest in your dream.
Eventually the p...
JENNIFER SODINI Mon pays ce n'est pas un pays, c'est l'hiver.
GILLES VIGNEAULT An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN It had already been a long day when we found the suspect - we had searched about 50 homes - and that...
SAM ALLEN In America, people buy cars, and they put very little money down. They get a car, and they go to wor...
IQBAL QUADIR In order to achieve a goal, a person usually has to work hard and believe in himself. Being successf...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Every game in our conference is tough. We made a couple of nice plays there and that's hopefully whe...
TONY GERHARZ Don't have work-life balance - at least in the sense of trying to escape from work so you can ha...
DON TAPSCOTT He is one of the most dedicated, hard-working kids I have ever coached. Josh is a solid four-year wr...
JASON ROSTORFER Anytime you've got a young team like we do, you go through some growing pains. Hopefully the experie...
DOUG DAY God pays, but not weekly wages.
POLISH PROVERB Hardwork pays but to some not in this life time but to their generations to come
PRINCE HOPKINS AMACHREE Positivity in attitude pays off rich dividend as positivity carries confidence in effort & action. I...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA For whatever reason he opened up that match and he destroyed the guy. When he decides to shoot, it u...
DARREN JOHNSON You can take organic materials ? leather, steel, wood and fabrics ? and mix them in the right way.
AMANDA PAYS You can take organic materials  leather, steel, wood and fabrics �...
AMANDA PAYS You can't fail with linen. It gives the chair a European classic look of its own.
AMANDA PAYS Comfort rules. You want to be able to sit in a good chair comfortably for a few hours and be able to...
AMANDA PAYS I painted one dining room red and I must say, the conversation became very heated in that room.
AMANDA PAYS You can take organic materials leather, steel, wood and fabrics and mix them in the right way....
AMANDA PAYS As we were resting them, we were explaining that was why. We hope it pays off to our advantage tomor...
KRISTY CURRY You see now... that divine justice, unlike the earthly kind, pays in advance, although over time it ...
ARTURO PEREZ-REVERTE Procrastination is not the problem. It is the solution.
Procrastinate now, don’t put it...
ELLEN DEGENERES Housekeeping? If it pays well, I might as well have a try.
ZHANG MING Beg a man for money,he will deny you,but come to him threatening his life with arms & armunitions & ...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) I have to pay the bills just like everybody else, but it also pays my soul to work.
KATHY BATES We've been working on relays a lot in practice ? and we've made some mistakes ? but it's nice to kno...
ABBIE BATES My advice for writers is to get a good day job. It takes the pressure off writing if you have a job ...
ABRAHAM VERGHESE The way you find an excuse, I want us to find an excuse to win and keep going. It definitely pays of...
SYED ILYAS AHMED We asked for $4 billion in savings in 2005 and got only $300 million, but we dusted ourselves off an...
SCOTT MILBURN A man who pays his bills on time is soon forgotten
OSCAR WILDE This is the lesson they learned from the government: that terror pays and aggression pays.
NOAM ARNON Whoever pays should control; whoever pays should sanction. I agree. But budgetary union should be co...
FRANCOIS HOLLANDE hard work is a misleading term. physical effort & long hours do not constitute hard work. hard w...
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LARRY MCMURTRY Americans don't want cowboys to be gay.
LARRY MCMURTRY You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfast: w...
LARRY MCMURTRY If we know anything about man, it's that he's not pacific. The temptation to butcher anyone ...
LARRY MCMURTRY True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends...
LARRY MCMURTRY No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity fro...
LARRY MCMURTRY Backward is just not a natural direction for Americans to look - historical ignorance remains a nati...
LARRY MCMURTRY A man that ain't willin' to cheat for a poke don't want it bad enough.
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