Antony Beevor Quotes

I've always zoomed through life in a vain attempt to keep up with my sprinting brain. If I have to choose between doing something quickly and doing it right, I often select the speedier option.

Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.

Haste is of the Devil.

To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.

Everybody knows that I am not usually patient enough to actually sit down and watch one of my own films from the beginning to the end - I never do.

Sometimes if you jump into something too quickly, you can screw up something that might have been good two years down the road.

A writer who isn't writing is asking for trouble.

He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.

If you want to know why all writers are a little crazy read 'The Midnight Disease' by Alice W. Flaherty. She talks about the drive to write, writer's block, and the creative brain. I know what's wrong with me!

I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a sense of tension. If they haven't got one immediately available to them, then they usually manage to manufacture it in their private lives.

I'm very impatient. I am. That's the bane of my game. I don't think about what I'm going to do - I just go hit it, I don't stop to wait and think. Costs me two shots a round.

I'm not going to rush anything and scamper around like a mad person and make myself crazy.

He takes the second step before the first

Haste is blind and improvident.

You can't be impatient about growth, because that's what leads people to make mistakes.

The West is very impatient. You want overnight change.

I think we writers are very superstitious. We don't know why it's working when it's working, so we attach cause and effect.

I have only so many songs to choose from when I'm deciding on the album. So I learned that I'm a little slow as far as dishing out music, but I learned to be patient with myself and not rush anything.

I believe when you rush your work, you're not thinking about what you're doing. That's when you make mistakes.

I never allowed writer's block to be a reality. I framed it up for myself early on. I said, 'OK, if I'm not writing, the well is just filling up. I'm going to be patient with this.'

When I have a new idea, I'm charged up and want to start the film immediately, but I simply don't have the patience to wait for stars.

Every time I've rushed into something, that's usually when I have regrets.

Having patience is one of the hardest things about being human. We want to do it now, and we don't want to wait. Sometimes we miss out on our blessing when we rush things and do it on our own time.

I feel like if you rush anything, it's never complete and it's never, never what you want it to be.

You always want to run before you can walk.