Paul Buchheit Quotes

I've been accused many times of not talking very much, but I guess I don't believe in talking things to death. You can talk too much on most anything and it stops being productive. There is a time for action. Eventually you have to pull the trigger.

There's a lot of work that needs to be done, and there's a difference between talking the talk and walking the walk.

Stop sketching and start building.

We must not waste life in devising means. It is better to plan less and do more.

Writing crystallizes thought and thought produces action.

The thing that weighs the most on how your final artwork turns out is the amount of time you have and the speed at which you can move.

The shortest answer is doing.

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Anything you can do needs to be done, so pick up the tool of your choice and get started.

I've always been comfortable thinking things through and doing it, more or less, my way. You can be as creative as you want, but if you're... unwilling to work on the details, to see those put into action, then creativity is just dreams, or worse, hallucinations.

There are the talkers and there are the doers.

In this job, I've found the less I talk, the better.

I hate sitting around labouring over things. I love just getting into it.

Good ideas are a dime a dozen. It's what you do with them that counts.

I'm not a talker. I'm a doer.

When there's something we weren't prepared for on the football field, you have to be able to use your mind, be creative, communicate, get lined up and get ready to do the play, get ready to execute.

That is the principal thing-not to remain with the dream, with the intention, with the being-in-the-mood, but always forcibly to convert it all into things.

An ounce of performance is worth more than a pound of preachment.

Shut up and write. Don't talk about writing, just physically do it.

I was not a public - I was not a thinker. I was a doer.

Ideas are just a multiplier of execution.

In a longish life as a professional writer, I have heard a thousand masterpieces talked out over bars, restaurant tables and love seats. I have never seen one of them in print. Books must be written, not talked.

Just build things and find out if they work.

I don't practice anything. I spend time looking over ideas and then just get out and do it.

You must elect your work; you shall take what your brains can, and drop all the rest. Only so can that amount of vital force accumulate which can make the step from knowing to doing. No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken. It is a step out of a chalk circle of imbecility into fruitfulness.