Iggy Pop Quotes

I really believe my greatest service is in the many unwise steps I prevent.

He who leaves nothing to chance will do few things poorly, but he will do few things.

You know it's easy to say you shouldn't do something and then something happens and you say, 'Wow, I wish I would have done something.'

The only thing to prevent what's past is to put a stop to it before it happens.

He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things.

A kite needs to be tied down in order to fly. I learned how important restrictions can sometimes be in order to experience freedom.

The river flows at its own sweet will, but the flood is bound in the two banks. If it were not thus bound, its freedom would be wasted.

If people are going to do things which have certain consequences that they would rather avoid, they should do whatever they need to avoid the consequences.

Some of the best things you do are the things you don't do.

Better take counsel early than repent late.

If you spend most of your effort preventing bad things from happening you will also prevent many good things from happening.

The resolution to avoid evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.

Just because you can do something, it doesn't mean you need to - restraint is something I admire.

So finally, I decided that the best response — the safest — was none at all.

Some things you do-or you're about to do-you can just be like, 'Hey, don't do that because it means trouble.' So I've got to back off.

We can look, but we'd better not touch.

Some things are best left alone. Such as interfering in things which are beyond our powers.

Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.

What you decide not to do is probably more important that what you decide to do.

It's not only a matter of when to do things, but whether or not to do them at all.

Perhaps I know to what extent I can go too far.

Trust is fine, but control is better.

Don't make the kinds of mistakes that will bring regret.

Doubt means don't. Don't move. Don't answer. Don't rush forward.

I think the most important thing for us to make judgments about is what can we really do? What can we achieve?