Nick Hornby Quotes

Delays in or avoidance of decision making was chronic.

The only risk we run is by doing nothing.

Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all.

Not to decide is to decide.

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

Sometimes inaction is worse than action.

Few things are sadder than encountering a person who knows exactly what he should do, yet cannot muster enough energy to do it. "He who desires but acts not," wrote Blake with his accustomed vigor, "Breeds pestilence.

Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.

Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.

Making no decision is a decision. To do nothing. And doing nothing always brings you to nowhere.

Withholding a decision is a decision.

He who considers too much will perform little.

People who think too much before they act don't act too much.

Too many of us fail to fulfill our needs because we say no rather than yes, or perhaps later in life, yes when we should say no.

You freeze with the number of opportunities given to you and just decide to do nothing at all.

Doing nothing is very hard to do... you never know when you're finished.

I do have a lot of difficulty figuring out what I want to be working on, but what's the alternative? To be one of those people who has a million things they want to do, and then never does any of them? And then where will you be?

He suffered from paralysis by analysis.

A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.

Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction?

Indecision and reveries are the anesthetics of constructive action.

I can't stand the kind of paralysis that some people fall into because they're not happy with the choices they've made.

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

Not deciding is a decision. People don't realize that not making a decision is a decision in itself.

My biggest worry is that sometimes you know the problem, but you don't do anything about it until it gets too big to be fixed.