Paul Walker Quotes

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

You're unwilling to go out on a limb because it just might break underneath you.

Indecision is the seedling of fear.

He who hesitates is poor.

I've made lots of mistakes. Probably the worst one - I would say they tie. It's either when I didn't move fast enough on something, or I didn't take a big enough risk.

Unwillingness to risk failure is always there, but it gets harder when you feel you have more to lose.

In a way, I'm always trying to do something I'm not qualified to do. So I feel that lack of qualification. And I'm scared. And I have a tendency to think things may not/probably won't work out. That's my basic mindset.

You aren't sure if you're making the right decision - about anything, ever.

I am very indecisive. I'm always afraid of making the wrong decision.

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

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

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

Decision-making is very scary for me.

If you take risks, you may fail; but if you don't take risks, you will surely fail

I've never stayed awake at night over a chance I took that failed, but I've stayed awake over chances I didn't take.

Playing it safe is the riskiest choice we can ever make.

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

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

But to procrastinate and prevaricate simply because you're afraid of erring, when others - I mean our brethren in Germany - must make infinitely more difficult decisions every day, seems to me almost to run counter to love. To delay or fail to make decisions may be more sinful than to make wrong decisions out of faith and love.

And indeed there will be time to wonder, 'Do I dare?', and 'Do I dare?

Everything tells me that I am about to make a wrong decision, but making mistakes is just part of life. What does the world want of me? Does it want me to take no risks, to go back to where I came from because I didn't have the courage to say "yes" to life?

Those were the 'ifs' that kept me from making a fool of myself.

There's a tremendous bias against taking risks. Everyone is trying to optimize their ass-covering.

My parents didn't want me to be an actor. They didn't think I could take the rejection, and I have to say they were probably right.

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.