Ezra Pound Quotes

My childlike qualities sometimes lead me to jump into projects without thinking of the consequences.

I don't think through anything I do. I just do it, and it's oftentimes landed me in huge amounts of trouble.

I never had any thought behind anything I did in the beginning, to be honest.

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

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

I don't know what idiocies drove me in those days, but they were naive, innocent idiocies in many ways.

I never make conscious decisions.

I don't really think, I just walk.

When you are young, you do a lot of stupid things.

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

I pretty much operate on adrenaline and ignorance.

Fools are without number.

I do things on a whim.

If people do things without thinking them through, that rubs me up the wrong way.

Most of the stuff I've ever said is pretty insignificant and, by and large, has been said off the cuff and without much thought to the potential consequences.

I didn't sit outside the bank and plan. I just went in and ad libbed because I was so young. But I was smart enough to know I would absolutely get caught.

I fly from the seat of my pants, basically.

No, thank you, I don't mind the rain,' I said. I always lacked common sense when taken by surprise.

A fool is someone whose pencil wears out before its eraser does.

I'm not a guy who can go in and go, "Hey, are we doing right or wrong?" I just do it. And whatever it is, it is.

Though loyal and able and brave, Pea had never displayed the slightest ability to learn from his experience, though his experience was considerable. Time and again he would walk up on the wrong side of a horse that was known to kick, and then look surprised when he got kicked.

Let's not go and ruin it by thinking too much.

I often don't think a lot about the ramifications of anything I do.

In another moment down went Alice after it, never once considering how in the world she was to get out again.

There is no shame in impulse.