Monday, May 18, 2009

"If we wait for the moment when everything is ready, we shall never begin." – Ivan Turgenev

Now is always a better time than later...for the most part.

Especially in matters of business or love. If you are acting from informed choice, then taking any action NOW is better than thinking, waiting, perfecting, hoping, figuring out...WHEN! What usually happens is that NOTHING happens! Procrastination is the killer of most dreams/hopes/plans. Most lives are lived, to quote Thoreau:

"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation." - WALDEN (1854)

So ACT NOW. THINK but also ACT! Take a bold step:

"Then indecision brings its own delays,
And days are lost lamenting over lost days.
Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute;
What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it;
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it."


(John Anster in a "very free translation" of Goethe's FAUST from 1835)

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