Karl Pilkington Quotes

I've been accused many times of not talking very much, but I guess I don't believe in talking things to death. You can talk too much on most anything and it stops being productive. There is a time for action. Eventually you have to pull the trigger.

It's better to do it than to talk about how perfect it could be.

Stop rationalizing, stop stewing. Get up out of your chair and start doing.

The difference between doing something and not doing something is doing something.

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

The shortest answer is doing the thing.

Be a doer, not a stewer.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

Delay is the enemy of progress.

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.

I prefer doing things rather than sitting around talking about doing things.

Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow. Don't wait for an inspired ending to come to mind. Work your way to the ending and see what comes up.

Don't talk of what you're "going to do!" Do it!

Who reflects too much will accomplish little.

Planning is extremely important, but at some point you have to go out and do it.

Experience has taught me that there is one chief reason why some people succeed and others fail. The difference is not one of knowing, but of doing. The successful man is not so superior in ability as in action. So far as success can be reduced to a formula, it consists of this: doing what you know you should do.

Go and do, don't sit and stew.

When something has to be done, do it! In France we are full of good ideas, but we rarely put them into practice.

Sometimes too much thinking leads to the Death of Doing

People have to decide on priorities if they want to get anywhere. The best lessons I learned was to just do it.

If you think of something, do it. Plenty of people often think, “I’d like to do this, or that.

It is a great deed to leave nothing for tomorrow.

He who puts off nothing till tomorrow has done a great deal.