Lateness of the Hour

It's 8:33 and I'm sitting in the computer lab scanning pictures for a presentation I am to give tomorrow at 11 am (for those of you who don't know, I am an inveterate procrastinator). I still have to put the presentation together and practice it and type a handout.
There's a phrase that was going through my head lately: maybe something like "When the going gets tough, then the tough get going." It might be part of a song by my father: There was a wise old ape and he lived by a lake and he thought that he would teach himself to swim. The apes would laugh and shout as he would sputter about as they watched all of his efforts from a limb.
What you say and do is nothing to me. I'm gonna work and work until I succeed. I know the more I try the better I'll be. I can do it, do it, do it, do it, do it!" (It's a lot better when you know the tune.)
Obviously, the going wouldn't be as tough if I wasn't as much of a procrastinator...

Modification made 2/19: So much for my knowledge of political history. Dad read this post and informed me that the above quote is from John F. Kennedy. The ape song contains something like "when the going gets a little bit rough, it's time for me to get a little bit tough. If I work hard I can learn lots of stuff..." I changed part of the song in the body of this post per my dad's correction.