Mark Hatfield Quotes

No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken.

Sometimes too much thinking leads to the Death of Doing

Without execution, thinking is mere idleness.

Be a doer, not a stewer.

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

I wish I had fair justification for not being as informed as I should be, but I don't.

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

Science is about knowing; engineering is about doing.

Realize that if you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.

It is not the knowing that is difficult, but the doing.

Don't talk of what you're "going to do!" Do it!

We can't create change until we recognize and check our own actions.

All I know about method is that when I am not working I sometimes think I know something, but when I am working, it is quite clear I know nothing.

Most of the problems in life are because of two reasons, we act without thinking or we keep thinking without acting.

Talk is cheap, let's go play.

Knowing and knowing what to do about it were two different things.

It is much easier to settle a point than to act on it.

You can blame people who knock things over in the dark or you can begin to light candles. You're only at fault if you know about the problem and choose to do nothing.

Go and do, don't sit and stew.

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.

Wringin' your hands only stops you from rollin' up your sleeves.

Knowing what to do and not doing it is the same as not knowing what to do.

It's better to do it than to talk about how perfect it could be.

You don't get anything done by planning

Saying that I've THOUGHT about it doesn't mean that I'm DOING it.