Dan Millman Quotes

Most of the problems in life are because of two reasons, we act without thinking or we keep thinking without acting.

People who think too much before they act don't act too much.

I can be indecisive about things - and the less important something is, the more indecisive I am.

I think the worst decision is usually no decision. If you make the wrong decision you can usually course-correct, but if you don't make it, you've already made it, and it's usually the bad one.

He who considers too much will perform little.

Not to decide is to decide.

He suffered from paralysis by analysis.

Who reflects too much will accomplish little.

Sometimes too much thinking leads to the Death of Doing

Overthinking is often a product of underdoing.

Withholding a decision is a decision.

If you're too smart it can limit you because you spend so much time thinking that you don't do anything.

Leave undone whatever you hesitate to do.

I have hesitation making any kind of decision, really in my life. I'm really slow at it.

I'm the worst at making decisions!

Sometimes inaction is worse than action.

I think sometimes when things have too much time to develop you overthink it and you start making changes that aren't necessary.

He who hesitates, meditates horizontally

The native hue of resolution is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought; and enterprises of great pitch and moment, With this regard, their currents turn awry, and lose the name of action.

People who deliberate fully before they take a step will spend their lives on one leg

Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows.

Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.

The more time you have to think things through, the more you have to screw it up.

Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.

If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin.