Paul Valery Quotes

He who considers too much will perform little.

He suffered from paralysis by analysis.

Making no decision is a decision. To do nothing. And doing nothing always brings you to nowhere.

Sometimes inaction is worse than action.

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

I second-guess and overthink and rethink every single thing that I do.

Leave undone whatever you hesitate to do.

People who think too much before they act don't act too much.

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

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.

Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all.

However, don't let perfectionism become an excuse for never getting started.

I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything.

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

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

Indecision and reveries are the anesthetics of constructive action.

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

I'm the worst at making decisions!

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

Hesitation is often like procrastination. One may have vague doubts and feel a need to mull things over; meanwhile, other issues intrude on thought, and no decision is taken. Ask people why they procrastinate, and you probably won't get a crisp answer.

I'm the kind of person who can paralyze myself very easily by over-thinking decisions.

As entrepreneurs, or artists, or just people with dreams, the worst thing you can do is get so caught up in planning the perfect idea that you never get around to actually... well, doing it. I call this building castles in your mind.

Most of the problems in life are because of two reasons, we act without thinking or we keep thinking without acting.

Perfectionism has nothing to do with getting it right. It has nothing to do with fixing things. It has nothing to do with standards. Perfectionism is a refusal to let yourself move forward. It is a loop-an obsessive, debilitating closed system that causes you to get stuck in the details of what you are writing or painting or making and to lose sight of the whole.

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