Jamie Bamber Quotes

Part of executive functions is the ability to look to a goal deadline and assess where an organization is in meeting it.

In the organization of any major sporting event or the planning of a building, long-term thinking is key.

I did parallel entrepreneurship, which was very hard to do. It was hard to keep your head straight and know which ideas were with which company.

No new projects at the moment. There are restrictions to how much I can take on. And I need to finish those that I am committed to do before thinking ahead. But I'd rather they take final shape before we talk of them.

I'm not really sure if I have anything that inspires me.

You aren't sure if you're making the right decision - about anything, ever.

Indecision may or may not be my problem.

Of course, if this season turns out to be terrible for me - if I get injured again and this prevents me from reaching a satisfying level, then I could change my decision again. But at this moment, it absolutely feels like the right thing for me to continue through 2003.

Men should pledge themselves to nothing; for reflection makes a liar of their resolution.

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.

I do have a lot of difficulty figuring out what I want to be working on, but what's the alternative? To be one of those people who has a million things they want to do, and then never does any of them? And then where will you be?

We think we want to do something and when it comes to it, we don't. We don't like to commit.

A New Year's resolution that I can never keep? To be able to make decisions.

There is a time when we must firmly choose the course which we will follow or the endless drift of events will make the decision for us.

There are a couple of projects that are sort of on the plate; I haven't closed any of them yet. I'm trying to figure out which one is going to be the best one for me.

I wait and take on projects that I think can work.

The biggest fragility in a project is often just the inability to be able to explain to people why you are doing it, and when you're going to do it, and what's going to happen.

Whenever I start a project, I have a broad range of possibilities.

I was disappointed a little in Stevenson because I did think he couldn't make up his mind. It's the feeling I always had. Perhaps all of us have self-doubt, and we should have, and most of us do, but it doesn't show. It doesn't show as much as it did in Adlai; he seemed to do it in public.

We should not get ourselves committed until we know how everything will come out.

One of the challenges of a good policy is trying to figure out what your priorities are.

It is most difficult to deal with. There are so many plans, so many schemes, and so many reasons why there should be neither plans nor schemes.

How long halt ye between two opinions?

Two types of choices seem to me to have been crucial in tipping their outcomes towards success or failure: long-term planning, and willingness to reconsider core values.