Paralysis Quotes

We regret the things we don't do more than the things we do.

The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.

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

Not to decide is to decide.

Most people don't really do too many things because they're afraid they'll fail. There are people failing all the time, all around you. And nobody is going to notice your failure. Your failure is not going to be so spectacular that people write news stories about it. Your failure will be boring.

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Fear of failure is a far worse condition than failure itself, because it kills off possibilities.

It is not failure itself that holds you back; it is the fear of failure that paralyzes you.

People always try to be perfect. That's why they don't start anything. Perfection is the lowest standard in the world. Because if you're trying to be perfect, you know you can't be. So what you really have is a standard you can never achieve. You want to be outstanding, not perfect.

Fear has no brains; it is an idiot. The dismal witness that it bears and the cowardly counsel that it whispers are unrelated.

… the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.

Attention to detail and a perfectionist instinct, far from stimulating action, are character qualities that lead to renunciation. Better to dream than to be.

Let me explain: there are dragons, and then there are drakons. Drakons are several millennia older than dragons, andmuch larger. They look like giant serpents. Most don't have wings. Most don't breathe fire (though some do). All are poisonous. All are immensely strong, with scales harder than titanium. Their eyes can paralyze you; not the turn-you~to-stone Medusa-type paralysis, buttheoh~my~gods-that~big~snake~is~going~to~eat~me type of paralysis, which is just as bad.

Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favourable do nothing.

Ideas without action are worthless.

If you see a snake, just kill it - don't appoint a committee on snakes.

Worry is a state of mind based upon fear. It works slowly, but persistently. It is insidious and subtle. Step by step it “digs itself in” until it paralyzes ones reasoning faculty, destroys self-confidence and initiative. Worry is a form of sustained fear caused by indecision therefore it is a state of mind which can be controlled.

I have a paralyzing fear of snakes.

The cost of being wrong is less than the cost of doing nothing.

When I broke my neck, I was told that I came within a millimeter of dying or being paralyzed from the neck down. When it happened, I was numb on one side. In spite of how serious they were telling me it was, I never took it seriously. I kept saying it's going to be OK, I trained too hard to get hurt. Which is silly.

Fear is the mind-killer.

The only thing I am afraid of is fear.

Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time.

I'm scared of him," said Piggy, "and that's why I know him. If you're scared of someone you hate him but you can't stop thinking about him. You kid yourself he's all right really, an' then when you see him again; it's like asthma an' you can't breathe.

But the only way never to do the wrong thing is never to do anything.