Denis Norden Quotes

Television is so dictated by time constraints that you have to make quick decisions and go with them.

When I need things to happen, I need them to happen now, you know. I don't want to be having a meeting about a meeting about a meeting, which is what can happen in Britain.

Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately.

Those who play badminton well take decisions quickly.

There is no time for normal General Staff procedure. Speed is essential and your efforts should be informal.

There are but few commanders who properly appreciate the value of celerity.

If certain facilities, local facilities have to be arranged, the local authorities have to come. And that makes the Indian system slow moving, Indian administrative system slow moving.

I'm not a musical theatre person, and I never will be, especially after seeing the way it operates. It's so incredibly inefficient. It takes three weeks to effect a change. It can be a lighting change, a script change, a musical change - you have to meet with six different departments, and about a month later, it may happen.

Getting through the reads in an efficient manner. I don't want to stay on receivers too long to where a bad decision is made.

A tweet is fast. But everything about policy change is very slow. And a lot of us are impatient.

The speed of decision making is the essence of good governance.

One of the key principles we have at Amazon is 'by a fraction.' We like to get things done quickly.

I like the feeling when you don't have much time and you have to think fast.

When you have to wait 10 and 15 years for an approval and then you don't even get the approval, it's no good.

A decision will be made before it's too late or soon thereafter.

Anything that brings you to a decision will be answered. The stronger the decision is, the faster it's answered. So if you're in a situation where it seems life or death, and the desire is strong, it is answered now, because it must be answered now to be answered at all.

I like to go in right away as soon as I have things.

Therefore, if you are attacked, retaliate instantly. Be sudden. Be quick. Speed is your salvation.

Outside of traffic, there is nothing that has held this country back as much as committees.

Sometimes, the decisions have to be taken in minutes, even seconds, and there would be no time to make the right decision. We understood that this could have ended in catastrophe.

Hurry is only admissible in catching flies.

It takes our government an awful lot of time to do most things competently, and that's part of the problem here.

It is better to act too quickly than it is to wait too long.

One should make his decisions within the space of seven breaths.