Peter Nivio Zarlenga Quotes

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

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

When in doubt, do something.

You've got to bumble forward into the unknown.

You never know what you find once you really get going.

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.

All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.

You have to change things in order to get to where you want to go. And things might get worse. But if you're not getting where you want to be, already, in a sense, it's as bad as it can get.

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.

Things can fall apart, or threaten to, for many reasons, and then there's got to be a leap of faith. Ultimately, when you're at the edge, you have to go forward or backward; if you go forward, you have to jump together.

You’ve got to start somewhere in order to get somewhere.

There is no way of truly knowing where a road will lead until it is walked.

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

At times, you need to be forceful to get things that are stuck unstuck.

The reinvention of daily life means marching off the edge of our maps.

You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is.

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

Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it's no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.

You will never win if you never begin.

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

Sometimes it's bad to do something you've never done before.

Never surrender opportunity for security.

You have to just dive over the edge. You haven't got time to mess about.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.