Christopher Paolini Quotes

I'm practical. I see something, and I do it.

But the cure for most obstacles is, Be decisive.

As an entrepreneur, I like cutting to the chase and getting things done.

Never do anything complicated when something simple will serve as well. It's one of the most important secrets of living.

To be always ready a man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied.

Why bother with a cunning plan when a simple one will do?

The art of managing and leading comes down to a simple thing. Determining and facing reality about people, situations, products, and then acting decisively and quickly on that reality. Think how many times we have procrastinated, hoped it would get better. Most of the mistakes you've made have been through not being willing to face into it, straight in the mirror that reality you find, then taking action on it. That's all managing is, defining and acting. Not hoping, not waiting fro the next plan. Not rethinking it. Getting on with it. Doing it. Defining and doing it.

I've learned to keep things simple. Look at your choices, pick the best one, then go to work with all your heart.

I don't wase time thinking, 'Am I doing it right?' I say, 'Am I doing it?'

Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.

There is no problem so complicated that you can't find a very simple answer to it if you look at it right.

..things are never as complicated as they seem. It is only our arrogance that prompts us to find unnecessarily complicated answers to simple problems.

Any idiot can be complicated. It takes a genius to be simple.

When you know what's most important to you, making a decision is quite simple.

Things that are complex are not useful, Things that are useful are simple.

I think the whole thing that Jamie [Hyneman] and I have in working together is that we are constantly simplifying each other's designs, and we both appreciate that the quickest and the dirtiest solution is usually the most elegant, the least expensive, and the fastest.

We must carry things beyond conversation to conclusion.

No matter how smart you are, you're smarter if you take the easy ways when they are available.

Don't "pole-vault over mouse truds" - by the time you've discussed the many options available to you, the problem itself could have been long behind you had you simply disposed of those rodent droppings with a simple tissue and dumped them into the garbage!

The way to do some things is to do them.

When a young man, I read somewhere the following: God the Almighty said, 'All that is too complex is unnecessary, and it is simple that is needed.' So this has been my lifetime motto – I have been creating weapons to defend the borders of my fatherland, to be simple and reliable.

The whole straight talk thing, which John McCain kind of turned into a slogan at one point in one of his presidential campaigns, what that is, is a symptom of somebody who has no time for messing around. Because he's trying to get stuff done constantly.

There are twenty ways of going to a point, and one is the shortest; but set out at once on one. A man who has that presence of mind which can bring to him on the instant all he knows, is worth for action a dozen men who know as much, but can only bring it to light slowly.

You have to use your judgment. In cases like that, we say, 'let's be simple minded. We know this is a feature that's good for customers. Let's do it.

The man of decision cannot be stopped! The man of indecision cannot be started! Take your own choice.