Richard Dawkins Quotes

Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun.

I should have done more. I did too little of everything.

I always want to learn but I am sure on my dying day I will feel like I left something in the bucket.

The greatest weariness comes from work not done.

I get sidetracked very easily.

This man will never finish anything. He thinks about the end before he thinks about the beginning.

I only finish probably one out of every ten things I start. I give up all the time.

Everything interests me, but nothing holds me.

I remember so clearly as a kid, my biggest problem in life was I used to never follow up on anything.

I'm one of those people who doesn't understand how it was that I went to bed at 3 o'clock in the morning or what I was doing. Like, I looked at 'Bon Appetit' magazine for three hours for things I'm never going to cook. Or I'm just on Pinterest for no logical reason.

I didn't make any mark on Barcelona. It was a blip in my career in terms of what I did as a coach.

Anyone can sit down and write two pages of a novel, then forget about it, and a week later write five pages of a screenplay, then forget about it, and a week later start another novel... etc, etc.

I'm the kind of person who will set time aside to do something and then do everything but that thing.

There's nothing worse than the guy who at the party goes, 'Oh, I had that idea two years ago.' Well, then, why didn't you do something two years ago?

I have a short attention span. And when I'm in the middle of one thing, I'm then drawn to the next thing.

I get this weird feeling that there's bigger things to do still, and I can't wait to figure it out.

I'm one of those guys that gets bored with things pretty fast, so I've got to keep it mixed up.

My frustration is I quit Arsenal too soon. I left a club I loved without really showing how good I was.

I'm so proud of what we accomplished during our era of Colts football, but I think every person, down to the last man, would tell you that he expected to win more than one ring in Indy. If there's any regret I have from my career, it's that.

My biggest hurdle usually has to do with concentration. I have a tendency to kind of start working on something, and then, all of a sudden, I'll totally divert and do something totally different.

I love basketball, and I didn't get a chance to finish my career the way I wanted.

The enemy often tries to make us attempt and start many projects so that we will be overwhelmed with too many tasks, and therefore achieve nothing and leave everything unfinished. Sometimes he even suggests the wish to undertake some excellent work that he foresees we will never accomplish. This is to distract us from the prosecution of some less excellent work that we would have easily completed. He does not care how many plans and beginnings we make, provided nothing is finished.

He has the attention span of a hummingbird.

Perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my entire life I've never been able to start or finish anything.

I have reached the end of my time, and have hardly come to the beginning of my task.