Harry Callahan Quotes

After all is said and done, more is said than done.

I prefer doing things rather than sitting around talking about doing things.

If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.

You must make, always. You must act, if you believe something. Talking about acting is like boasting about pictures you're going to paint. The most terrible bad form.

Great talkers, little doers.

The more time you spend talking about what you have been doing, the less time you have to do what you have been talking about. Eventually, you spend more and more time talking about less and less until finally you spend all of your time talking about nothing.

Be a doer, not a stewer.

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

Considering how foolishly people act and how pleasantly they prattle, perhaps it would be better for the world if they talked more and did less.

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

If I wait for the genius to come, it just doesn't arrive.

A writer who isn't writing is asking for trouble.

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes.

Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

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.

Don't talk of what you're "going to do!" Do it!

It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little.

Who reflects too much will accomplish little.

Every day you don't do something, it makes it less likely that you will ever do something. So you've got to get started right away.

Most people who have ideas, those ideas sit in their head forever until they eventually die.

You can have the best intentions in the world but if you do nothing, you are nothing.

Stop stewing and start doing!