Daniel Fried Quotes

I probably thought that about most of the things I did. But you wind up in situations where you have to make decisions very quickly, and you just go for it a lot of the time.

In my life, I often make so-called major decisions by very quick, immediate responses.

Man is too quick at forming conclusions.

When the heart flies out before the understanding, it saves the judgment a world of pains.

Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

I've always zoomed through life in a vain attempt to keep up with my sprinting brain. If I have to choose between doing something quickly and doing it right, I often select the speedier option.

The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing - and then marry him.

Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment.

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

Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought.

Most of the things we decide are not what we know to be the best. We say yes, merely because we are driven into a corner and must say something.

People do stupid things in the heat of the moment. I've been in Vegas where I've gotten married for, like, five minutes.

We Brazilians, happily or unhappily, leave a lot to the last minute.

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.

The haste of a fool is the slowest thing in the world.

I'm not good at making plans, because I never have been. I never do things with an idea of where they may wind up.

I showed up pretty much at the exact right moment to end up with a lot of work on my plate very quickly, because I was young and foolish, and so I wrote very quickly.

If you over-react to a crisis legislatively it generally ends in disaster.

We don't always know what we're doing. We often just get excited, put something down, and say, 'Oh, neat'.

The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing, and then they marry him.

Putting all your eggs in one basket has never worked for me. Personally, I find if I decide too quickly that someone is my match, I start to get a little nutty.

As human beings, we suffer from an innate tendency to jump to conclusions, to judge people too quickly, and to pronounce them failures or heroes without due consideration.

I get things in my head every once in a while and decide I must experience them, no matter how ridiculous.

You have to be careful not to make music something you don't want to do. Which happens. I've gotten off the road and been like, 'I hate it. I hate singing, I hate playing guitar.' Six days later, I'm in my bedroom singing at the top of my lungs because I love it so much.

I have always tended to over-think things and that had come into my game. That's good in certain moments but not when you have to make a quick decision.