Defer pleasure until the job is done.

If virtue holds the secret, don't defer; Be off with pleasure, and be on with her.

— Horace

If you're unwilling to defer pleasure or endure some "pain" for now, are you likely to end up later deep in the hole?

— Price Pritchett

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

— Aristotle

Music is just such... it's not therapy, but it's a release, it's a joy, it's a pleasure. And it's a job - which is…

— Bryan Adams

I'm always working. Like a lot of creative people I can't switch off. I can't disassociate work from pleasure. My job is my hobby.

— Marc Newson

“It will cost the State money, it will cost industry money, it will cost the mills and mines money, and it will cost municipalities…

— Attorney General James H. Duff 1945

Those people behind the mosque have to respect, have to appreciate and have to defer to the people of New York. The wound is…

— Al-Waleed bin Talal

“Habitual procrastinators will readily testify to all the lost opportunities, missed deadlines, failed relationships and even monetary losses incurred just because of one nasty…

— Stephen Richards

In my book (he has), but guess what? My book don't mean much, ... I don't know. That's why you have to defer to…

— Jerome Bettis

To defer anything to the Greek Calends is to defer it sine die. There were no calends in the Greek months. The Romans used…

— E. Cobham Brewer

My speculation is that the U.S. does not want to establish the principle that it has to defer to some higher authority before carrying…

— Noam Chomsky

The definition of investment is the deferring ofpresent consumption for future consumption. So, you dohave to be willing to defer. And there are a…

— William J. Bernstein

You can't defer if you're the person who's in the leadership position.

— Mike Krzyzewski

I wish I could say that when I didn't agree with a director I defer to him, but I think sometimes I'm a little…

— Billy Crudup

“Deflect, Delegate, Defer or just Do it!”

— Mark Guido