Ben Marcus

Mostly we're motivated to control ourselves in public. Mostly. At home the motivation is much less clear. At home there's a bit of a lab for bad behavior. You can test things out without terrible consequences. Or maybe the consequences are there, but they are deferred, buried, much harder to detect.

American Author

A. S. Byatt

We talk about feelings. And about sex. And about bodies, and their gratification, violation, repair, decoration, deferred, maybe permanently deferred, mortality. Feelings are a bodily thing, and respecting them is called, is, kindness.

English Novelist

Evan Bayh

As Indiana's governor, I balanced eight budgets, never raised taxes, and left the largest surplus in state history. It wasn't always easy. Cuts had to be made and some initiatives deferred. Occasionally I had to say 'no.

American Politician

Stephen Grellet

I shall pass through this world but once. Any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

American Clergyman

Jacinda Ardern

I'd say it was always in me - it's just what's required of you is very different in the moment that you become leader. When you're part of a team, you defer, and you're there to support your leader.

New Zealander Politician

Max Muller

How mankind defers from day to day the best it can do, and the most beautiful things it can enjoy, without thinking that every day may be the last one, and that lost time is lost eternity!

German Educator

Zbigniew Brzezinski

Sometimes in international politics, the better part of wisdom is to defer dangers rather than try to eliminate them altogether instantly.

Rachel Simmons

To defer to someone else's definition of a life well-lived is a Faustian bargain.

Patti Smith

Throughout my life, I happily deferred to family, companions, children.

American Musician

Brandon Ingram

It's important for me to be aggressive and not defer.

American Athlete

Use 'defer' when a decision or action is intentionally postponed to a specific time.

Planned Delay

'Defer' implies an active decision to delay, not caused by external factors.

Active Choice

'Defer' is used when something is put off for a period, not just briefly.

Not Immediate

'Defer' suggests politely giving way to someone's opinion or authority.

Respectful Yielding

Use 'defer' when acknowledging someone's greater knowledge or skill in a subject.

Recognizing Expertise

In accounting, 'defer' involves strategic financial decisions, not mere delay.

Financial Planning

Deferring a payment means committing to pay it at a later date.

Future Obligation

 of calling the collateral damage I'm deferred health problems that really could have benefited from an earlier visit to the hospital emergency room or and in-person visit to your doc to your doctor or nurse practitioner or whoever and you know as the months have gone on and you know we've been dealing with this as a country as a world you know

How health workers are...

 money they're not supposed to but they figure out a way they make you pay more withholding just helped their cash flow out they sell off the assets they defer the payments they sell off the revenues from tobacco in California is not unique impact there's about five states that are worse the

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 ruins itself sometimes it's best to defer to his writing on the place when he first saw it it captured his imagination as a jungle covered maze of small and large walls the ruins of buildings made of blocks of white granite most carefully cut and beautifully fitted together without

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 I said, yeah, it's worth a conversation. This is something that the attorney general of the United States and the president also actually have both talked about this, and I defer to the attorney general, because this is his lane. But there is a strong tradition

Richard Ledgett: The NSA...

 Some survivors experienced delayed or deferred admission due to limited bed capacity. No bed available for one more patient. This is neither national policy nor officially condoned, but many people are still afraid of the sporadic resurgence of Ebola virus.

For survivors of Ebola,...

 The first-generation children were strongly influenced by their immigrant parents' approach to choice. For them, choice was not just a way of defining and asserting their individuality, but a way to create community and harmony by deferring to the choices

Sheena Iyengar: The art...

 triggered a massive improvement in laptop battery life. This is because deferring interruptions lets a system check everything at once, then quickly re-enter a low-power state. As with computers, so it is with us. Perhaps adopting a similar approach

How to manage your time...

 They borrow money. They're not supposed to, but they figure out a way. They make you pay more in withholding just to help their cash flow out. They sell off the assets. They defer the payments. They sell off the revenues from tobacco.

 And in my dream, everything came full circle. This past summer, I deferred one dream for another when I put medical school on hold, founded Human First Coalition, an organization dedicated to aiding Afghans in need.

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 in those bailouts the earlier bailouts they have structured it so that the interest payments are not falling due immediately in fact those are deferred and capitalized and there's not interest

Defer

Planned Delay

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