Jim Butcher Quotes

If you put off everything till you're sure of it, you'll never get anything done.

I don't usually suggest going into something you cannot do, but sometimes you gotta jump in and land on your feet.

Let's just start and see what happens.

There’s no such thing as ready,” she says. “There’s only willing.

The biggest threat to a better life is the desire to keep the future under control - to make the world predictable by reining in creativity and enterprise. Progress as a neat blueprint, with no deviations and no surprise, may work in children's cartoons or utopian novels. But it's just a fantasy.

LIfe has got all those twists and turns. You've got to hold on tight and off you go.

For some reason, I like to put myself in situations where I don't even know how I ended up there. I never want to be complacent or comfortable in a role.

You can never plan the future by the past.

You can't plan anything, right? You can try.

I have goals that I want to reach, but you can never plan what's going to happen next.

The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.

The best plan is to have no plan.

Plans get you into things, but you got to work your way out.

You're better off not preparing, because what you prepare will always be wrong.

I'll ride the wave, where it takes me!

Not everything is going to go exactly as you plan. It's what you do when everything breaks down.

Don't let not knowing how it'll end keep you from beginning. Uncertainty chases us out into the open where God is waiting.

Always plan for the fact that no plan ever goes according to plan.

I engage and after that I see what to do.

We cannot truly plan, because we do not understand the future-but this is not necessarily a bad news. We could plan while bearing in mind such limitations. It just takes guts.

I'd rather make a mistake than do nothing.

There are some things that it is better to begin than to refuse, even though the end may be dark.

Any plan conceived in moderation must fail when the circumstances are set in extremes.

One must not expect anything in these times, but be ready for everything.

Who reflects too much will accomplish little.