Mikhail Gorbachev Quotes

I was always stuck in a musical no man's land.

Maybe it was inertia -or worse, fear- that was keeping me in the same place.

I was twenty-one at the time, about to turn twenty-two. No prospect of graduating soon, and yet no reason to quit school. Caught in the most curiously depressing circumstances. For months I'd been stuck, unable to take one step in any new direction. The world kept moving on; I alone was at a standstill. In the autumn, everything took on a desolate cast, the colors swiftly fading before my eyes. The sunlight, the smell of the grass, the faintest patter of rain, everything got on my nerves.

The Cul-de-Sac ( French for "dead end" ) ... is a situation where you work and work and work and nothing much changes

The person attempting to travel two roads at once will get nowhere.

If I'm going east and west, nothing's happening.

My life used to be like that game of freeze tag we played as kids. Once tagged, you had to freeze in the position you were in. Whenever something happened, I'd freeze like a statue, too afraid of moving the wrong way, of making the wrong decision. The problem is, if you stand still too long, that's your decision.

Not only do I not know what's going on, I wouldn't know what to do about it if I did.

You freeze with the number of opportunities given to you and just decide to do nothing at all.

When I come up against the real world, I just vacillate.

Pressure is something you feel when you don't know what the hell you're doing.

I have no idea what I'm doin'. I've never seen me.

Sometimes I'll go down a path, and I'll just pray that something's going to come to get me out of this path that I'm on.

For the first six or eight months at Juilliard I felt paralysed. I didn't know what I was doing.

I live on a one-way street that's also a dead end. I'm not sure how I got there.

Delays in or avoidance of decision making was chronic.

A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.

I made up my mind, but I made it up both ways.

The maxim ‘Nothing avails but perfection’ may be spelled shorter: ‘Paralysis.’

The insistence on a perfect cure often results in no betterment whatsoever.

Panic is never productive.

I can't stand the kind of paralysis that some people fall into because they're not happy with the choices they've made.

Many of us stay in situations that don't serve us because we don't want to confront the fact that we've failed.

Sometimes when you lose a game, you win a game, you get stuck in the bubble.

Standing in the middle of nowhere, wondering how to begin. Lost between tomorrow and yesterday, between now and then.