B. C. Forbes Quotes

Most of the problems in life are because of two reasons, we act without thinking or we keep thinking without acting.

The thinking of the world leads us to think shallowly and act too quickly.

A Creole woman is like a child, she wants to possess everything immediately; like a child, she would set fire to a house in order to fry an egg. In her languor, she thinks of nothing; when passionately aroused, she thinks of any act possible or impossible.

Rashness is oftener the resort of cowardice than of courage.

I was always the kid at school who thought it was a good idea to set off the fire alarm. And much as I'm aware that that's a trait which also propels other things which are good, I wish I could just pause and go, 'Is this really what you want to do?'

I'm very accident-prone. The problem is I sort of just do things. I'm impulsive, and sometimes I don't think.

I never ever take into consideration the consequences of my actions until it's too late.

Some persons do first, think afterward, and then repent forever.

I'm very impatient. I am. That's the bane of my game. I don't think about what I'm going to do - I just go hit it, I don't stop to wait and think. Costs me two shots a round.

Humans have a tendency towards short-term thinking.

In your 20s - and these are generalizations of course - I feel like I didn't care about as many things or as many people, or even myself, as much. There's more recklessness and more ruthlessness; you're not as considerate of how things land with other people I think.

Fools rush in through the door; for folly is always bold.

That fundamentally undermines your ability to access the best part of your instincts. So my advice to those people would be stop thinking and introspecting so much and do a little more acting.

So she became impulsive, scared by her inaction into perpetual action. When the Eagle confronted her with the expulsion, maybe she blurted out Marya's name because it was the first that came to mind, because in that moment she didn't want to get expelled and she couldn't think past that moment. She was scared, sure. But more importantly, maybe she'd been scared of being paralyzed by fear again. ~Miles/Pudge on Alaska, pg 120-121

Hasty climbers have sudden falls.

Consider before acting, to avoid foolishness: It is the worthless man who speaks and acts thoughtlessly.

Young men can be impetuous, young men can be rush, young men can be fools, but the Car'a'carn cannot let himself be a young man.

While some of us act without thinking, too many of us think without acting.

Rash actions are seldom committed in isolation. With the first rash action we always do too much. So we usually go on to commit asecond one--and then we do too little.

O mischief, thou art swift to enter in the thoughts of desperate men!

Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided.

Error is ever the sequence of haste.

Vee never needed a reason to do something stupid. Sad thing was, most of the time I didn't either.

They are hare-brain'd slaves.