Joe Abercrombie Quotes

If every conceivable precaution is taken at first, one is often too discouraged to proceed at all.

Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true.

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

A lot of people don't just go ahead and try things.

There's always a reason not to do anything... to flee the need to make decisions.

There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything.

Doubt may be a poor encouragement to do anything, but it is a bad reason for doing nothing.

I don't know. I just feel stuck, like I'm afraid to take any steps, in case they're the wrong ones.

He who considers too much will perform little.

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.

I used to second guess myself all the time. I can sit there and work in circles when I'm nervous about what I'm doing.

The only risk we run is by doing nothing.

Fear has been my biggest friend. Fear of the unknown. Whenever I've been afraid, I've been very self-protective.

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.

The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.

We are so in fear of failure that often we prefer not to try..

I don't reject caution, but you also have to be careful about caution because there's a stage when it turns into paralysis.

Most people don't really do too many things because they're afraid they'll fail. There are people failing all the time, all around you. And nobody is going to notice your failure. Your failure is not going to be so spectacular that people write news stories about it. Your failure will be boring.

If you play scared, your decision making slows down and that's when you run into more trouble.

I've often met people who are terrified, you know, in a straight jacket of their own making because they'd rather do anything that fail. They don't want to try for fear of failing.

Having precise ideas often leads to a man doing nothing.

If you don't know what to do, don't do anything.

Fear of failure leads to failure.

But I didn’t dare. That has always been my trouble. I’ve never dared enough.

One reason people never attempt new things is their fear of failure.