Daniel Gilbert Quotes

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

My biggest worry is that sometimes you know the problem, but you don't do anything about it until it gets too big to be fixed.

Even when we know what is right, too often we fail to act. More often we grab greedily for the day, letting tomorrow bring what it will, putting off the unpleasant and unpopular.

The most life destroying word of all is the word tomorrow.

People sometimes fail to live because they are always preparing to live.

That's human nature. Nobody does anything until it's too late.

I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide.

Some people spend the whole of their lives sitting waiting for one train, only to find that they never even made it to the station.

There aren’t enough people who care about the future. They are too busy worrying about today and what they can grab now

Most people stand on the dock of life waiting for their ship to come in when deep down inside they know it has never left port.

Most people are fast to stop you before you get started but hesitate to get in the way if you're moving.

There is one thing about Englishmen, they won't fix anything till it's just about totally ruined. You couldn't get the English to fix anything at the start. No! They like to sit and watch it grow worse. Then, when it just looks like the whole thing has gone up Salt Creek, why, the English jump in and rescue it.

You hear people say: "One day, when I'm in a good position I can make my passion project." I've seen a lot of people get into that position and not make it.

Lazy people always intend to start doing something.

It's easy to do nothing, but your heart breaks a little more every time you do.

He who will not when he may, may not when he will.

I'm basically a very lazy person who likes to get credit for things other people actually do.

While it is true that without a vision the people perish, it is doubly true that without action the people and their vision perish as well.

Withholding a decision is a decision.

Later is always my first choice.

Our trouble is not ignorance, but inaction.

It's surprising how many people get bogged down in analysing, planning, and organizing when what they really need to do is take action.

He who feared that he would not succeed sat still.

One of the most interesting things in the world to me is the vast difference between what people say they are going to do, and what they actually do.

And there is a chance that everything we did was incorrect, but stasis is itself criminal for those with the means to move, and the means to weave communion between people.