Boyan Slat Quotes

I believe one is not going to get anywhere by sitting and planning too much. The point is to keep doing, and what will happen will happen.

Don't wait. If it's not right, move on.

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

If you put off everything till you're sure of it, you'll never get anything done.

Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.

Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.

Change is realized by men who take the next step; not those who theorize about the 20th step.

...we need to stop plotting the course and instead just land the plane on our plans to make a difference by getting to the "do" part of faith.

Stop asking, start doing.

Enough had been thought, and said, and felt, and imagined. It was about time that something should be done.

It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.

The future starts today, not tomorrow.

You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

I'd rather regret doing something than not doing something.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Doing is a quantum leap from imagining.

The future requires action and not mere conversation.

I don't think about doing new. I just do it.

It's not the dreaming, it's the doing.

Decide where you are going and how you are to get there. Then make a start from where you now stand.

It is not a question of starting. The start has been made. It's a question of what's to be done from now on.

Sometimes success isn't about making the right decision, it's more about making some decision.