Imre Kertesz Quotes

We have been sitting here all night bullshitting and we still don’t know what to do.

Often any decision, even the wrong decision, is better than no decision.

When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take - choose the bolder.

I always make a decision, even if it's the wrong one. I hate being confused.

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.

When in doubt, do something.

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

The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.

I've been accused many times of not talking very much, but I guess I don't believe in talking things to death. You can talk too much on most anything and it stops being productive. There is a time for action. Eventually you have to pull the trigger.

Be decisive even when confused – especially when confused.

You don't know how many times I was in the huddle, asking my teammates to help me call a play.

Nothing will change unless you talk about it.

I love to talk. I love to share. I love to vent. But I prefer action.

Be decisive. A wrong decision is generally less disastrous than indecision.

What am I supposed to do here? What am I supposed to think?

But I still feel I waste a lot of time leaning on my elbow and thinking to myself, 'alright sucker, now what?'

My friend Terry says that when you need to make a decision, in your work or otherwise, and you don’t know what to do, just do one thing or the other, because the worst that can happen is that you will have made a terrible mistake.

When you don't know what to do, do something. I know you don't know what to do and I know you can't do everything right now, but you can do something.

Stand at the crossroads if you will, but if you'll not choose, I'll move on without you

When it gets down to it you just have to act.

It is worse to be irresolute than to be wrong.

Writing crystallizes thought and thought produces action.

So many young people say, 'I'm just going to see what happens.' It's so much more powerful to make things happen and have a plan.

Ambiguity in directors is a hard thing to deal with.

If not me, who? And if not now, when?