Frederick the Great Quotes

A hasty judgment is a first step to recantation.

Haste is blind and improvident.

I'm very impatient. I am. That's the bane of my game. I don't think about what I'm going to do - I just go hit it, I don't stop to wait and think. Costs me two shots a round.

He who decides in haste repents in haste.

It slightly worries me that when people find a problem, they rush to judgment of what to do.

He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.

Every time I've rushed into something, that's usually when I have regrets.

All haste implies weakness.

Act quickly, think slowly.

I've always zoomed through life in a vain attempt to keep up with my sprinting brain. If I have to choose between doing something quickly and doing it right, I often select the speedier option.

Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.

To begin impatiently is the worst mistake a writer can make.

Sometimes if you jump into something too quickly, you can screw up something that might have been good two years down the road.

Haste is of the Devil.

I'm not going to rush anything and scamper around like a mad person and make myself crazy.

One cannot move so fast so as to invite a backlash.

Certainly none of the advances made in civilization has been due to counterrevolutionaries and advocates of the status quo.

… a closed world. … an almost perfect record of resisting change. … fragmented, loosely managed, and poorly coordinated. … often unable to gather intelligence about the things we care the most about. … analysts do not always tell the decision makers just how limited their information really is. … increasingly irrelevant to the new challenges presented by weapons of mass destruction. … espionage is always chancy at best. Still we have no choice but to do better.

Where Mr. McKinley was patient, cautious, tactful and a very good listener…, Roosevelt is impetuous, impatient, and wholly lacking in tact.

Things happen slower than you think that they will, but when they do occur, they happen much faster than you think they will.

The West is very impatient. You want overnight change.

The quickest way may not necessarily be the best.

When you start rushing into things, that's when you get some deals that may not be the right ones.

Publish in haste and repent at leisure.

A fooles bolt is soone shot.