Last Minute Quotes

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success.

Ross Perot

Inspirational, Success, Motivational Sports

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If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done.

Rita Mae Brown

Failure, Procrastination, Done

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Nothing makes a player more productive than the last minute.

John Kessel

Sports, Player, Lasts

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There is always time for another last minute

Terry Pratchett

Lasts, Minutes

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In order to have a change of fortune at the last minute, you have to take your fortune to the last minute.

Terry Pratchett

Order, Lasts, Minutes

Terry Pratchett (2008). “Thief Of Time: (Discworld Novel 26)”, p.380, Random House

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Stop your worrying, panicking and stressing. Breathe. Remember, you made it this far through difficulties that seemed impossible. Remember how many times you were saved at the very last minute -- this time is no different.

Bryant H. McGill

Stress, Remembers You, Remember You

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You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood. What mood is that? Last-minute panic.

Bill Watterson

Creativity, Procrastination, Panic

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Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.

Ross Perot

Motivational, Strength, Success

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An expert is someone called in at the last minute to share the blame.

Sam Ewing

Experts, Lasts, Blame

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God has stepped in at the last minute more than once in history (remember Moses at the Red Sea?). And He can do the same for you. Keep turning the pages by faith and let the story play out to the end.

David Jeremiah

Faith, Christian, Sea

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As you schedule individual tasks, give yourself a cushion. Mark the due date a few days ahead of the actual deadline so you have time to deal with changes or last-minute emergencies.

Harvey Mackay

Giving, Tasks, Schedules

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You are not going to be happy if you lose to a goal in the last minute. It is difficult to take and difficult to get out of your mind.

Alex Ferguson

Goal, Mind, Lasts

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The way I work, typically, I do everything at the very last minute. Even if I was given two months, I'd do it in the last three days

Ayumi Hamasaki

Two, Way, Lasts

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When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it's the last minute of your life.

Janis Joplin

Advice, Lasts, Minutes

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Never invite to dinner: those who won't decide until the last minute; those who come more than half an hour late; those who want to bring along two or three friends; drunks; monologists; those who stay until three o'clock in the morning; those who think that conversation means having an argument; those who take a high moral tone; those who are stupid, ugly, or dull. Enforcement of these rules will enable one to eat alone every night in comfort.

Mason Cooley

Morning, Stupid, Mean

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I always try to do the most important or urgent tasks first, I avoid waiting till the last minute to finish things, and I value my time. I work smarter by valuing my time and doing the things that can't be done without me while hiring a great team around me to do the rest of the things.

Jeet Banerjee

Team, Waiting, Important

Source: theimarketingcafe.com

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If in anything I have faith in something you could call the human spirit - I have faith it will always save itself at the last minute.

Vashti Bunyan

Have Faith, Lasts, Spirit

Source: pitchfork.com

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What motivates people to be late?... Some people are drawn to the adrenaline rush of that last-minute sprint to the finish line. Others receive an ego boost from over-scheduling and filling each moment with an activity.

Harvey Mackay

People, Ego, Lines

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Deadlines comes as a surprise....superb: a new genre, in fact, combining the pleasures of list-making with that of last-minute eaves-dropping.

Alberto Manguel

Lasts, Lists, Facts

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A person who can get a good table at Chez Panisse at the last minute is a very important person indeed. Royalty begins with Alice Waters.

Willard Spiegelman

Food, Water, Cooking

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We humans appear on the cosmic calendar so recently that our recorded history occupies only the last few seconds of the last minute of December 31st.

Carl Sagan

Lasts, Calendars, December

"Cosmos: A Personal Voyage". Documentary (1990 Update). Episode 1: "The Shores of the Cosmic Ocean", 1990.

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I am definitely still the same kid that I was picking up the guitar at 15. But, I have definitely learned to be more flexible and roll with the punches. It's such an unpredictable business to be in and it's insane how things change so last minute.

Kate Voegele

Kids, Guitar, Insane

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The hardest thing to get is true emotion. I always believe you need to earn that with the audience. You can't just tell them ok, be sad now. Humor, you can add. Even to the last minute you can be adding little bits of humor. But the true earned emotion is something that you really have to craft.

John Lasseter

Believe, Add, Needs

"John Lasseter Gives the Lowdown on Bolt". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. March 23, 2009.

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I am so fascinated with this century it will help keep me alive. I'll be there until the last minute, fighting.

Berenice Abbott

Fighting, Alive, Lasts

"Berenice Abbott: the photography trailblazer who had supersight" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2015.

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I'm a very, very unreckless person. I mean, I look left, I look right, I look left, I look right, then I repeat the process and then I decide not to cross the road at the last minute.

Jonathan Meades

Mean, Looks, Lasts

Source: thequietus.com

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