Alex Trebek Quotes

I prefer thought to action, an idea to a transaction, contemplation to activity.

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

A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.

Talk about it only enough to do it. Dream about it only enough to feel it. Think about it only enough to understand it. Contemplate it only enough to be it.

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Who reflects too much will accomplish little.

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

There is always a gap between intention and action.

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

Do you always think this much? It's just that sometimes people use thought to not participate in life.

Our problem is not the lack of knowing; it is the lack of doing. Most people know far more than they think they do

Sometimes too much thinking leads to the Death of Doing

As long as he doesn't convert it into action, it does not matter how much a man thinks about his repentance.

To meditate is to labour; to think is to act.

To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome.

At every moment, step by step, one must confront what one is thinking and saying with what one is doing, what one is.

You don't get anything done by planning

Contemplation is necessary to generate an object, but action must propagate it.

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

Remembering is part of thinking, but not all of it.

Don't just put it off and think about it!

If you think of something, do it. Plenty of people often think, “I’d like to do this, or that.

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

Say it to them. Or say it to yourself in the mirror. Say it in a letter you'll never send or in a book millions might read someday. I think you deserve to look back on your life without a chorus of resounding voices saying 'I could've, but it's too late now.'