John Burnham Schwartz Quotes

Before you act, consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

I've been accused many times of not talking very much, but I guess I don't believe in talking things to death. You can talk too much on most anything and it stops being productive. There is a time for action. Eventually you have to pull the trigger.

Not deciding is a decision. Let’s all remember that when we decide not to do something.

We always make so many excuses for ourselves - 'I'm so busy, I'm so tired, I don't want to do it.' You know? 'I'm passionate about it, but I'm not going to be the person that changes things.' Why do we tell ourselves that? We totally could. There are so many people who are making so much change just because they're passionate.

It's one thing to speak about it and another to actually do something about it.

Doubt can only be removed by action.

Here's where we are, this is what's happening. So do something, or get out of the kitchen.

The way through the challenge is to get still and ask yourself, 'What is the next right move? What is the next right move?' and then, from that space, make the next right move and the next right move.

A brilliant idea without action is like Mark McGwire playing baseball without a bat.

But if you never did anything you couldn't undo you'd end up doing nothing at all.

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage.

I think the worst decision is usually no decision. If you make the wrong decision you can usually course-correct, but if you don't make it, you've already made it, and it's usually the bad one.

The wrong thing to do about any given circumstance or situation is to do nothing.

Sometimes too much thinking leads to the Death of Doing

There is some risk involved in action, there always is. But there is far more risk in failure to act.

You don't get anything done by planning

Stop rationalizing, stop stewing. Get up out of your chair and start doing.

To wish for change will change nothing; To make the decision to take action right now will change everything.

if a thing is to be done, there is no time like the hour that has not struck.

Dare to begin! He who postpones living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

The difference between doing something and not doing something is doing something.

it is better to act and repent than not to act and regret.

If she doesn't speak, she is making a choice. If she doesn't try, she can lose her chance forever. -An-mei

I’ve learned in a hundred ways that I rarely regretted acting but often regretted NOT acting fast enough.