Impulsive Decision Quotes

Everything I've done I've always kind of jumped in headfirst, and it's been a learning curve. Even MuchMusic, I had never done live television before, and all of a sudden you show up, and they're like, 'You ready kid? Let's go.'

I have done stupid with a lot of zeros on the end of it. I know what it looks like.

If I ever mary, it will be on a suddn impulse - as aman shoots himself

The most erratic thing I ever did was going blonde.

The same day I was supposed to go to college, I ended up hitting the studio and then poppin' out on the block after that.

Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week? Or sell eternity to get a toy? For one grape who will the vine destroy?

There is no passion so much transports the sincerity of judgment as doth anger

As for women that do not think their own safety worth their thought, that impatient of their present state, resolve as they call it to take the first good Christian that comes; that runs into matrimony, as a horse rushes into battle; I can say nothing to them, but this, that they are a sort of ladies that are to be pray'd for among the rest of distemper'd people; and to me they look like people that venture their whole estates in a lottery where there is a hundred thousand blanks to one prize.

Sometimes your whole life boils down to one insane move.

My departure from Juve remains a regret, a mistake that taught me one thing - never make an immediate decision, at the end of the season, when everyone is 'boiling.' I have paid for such an experience.

I quit college so fast I didn't even clean out my locker.

I'll never forget my worst business decision. I bought a Nissan Pathfinder with my first signing bonus. I didn't even have a place to live, but I bought a car. Not a smart move but, believe me, I learned from that mistake.

I saw my wife at a pool, flipped over her, and 14 days later we were married.

The Gulf War was like teenage sex. We got in too soon and out too soon.

[There is] a type of which he [Theodore Roosevelt] is perhaps the master specimen—the politician who could not help being one if he tried…. when Mr. Roosevelt takes a step which the mass of his fellow citizens regard as carefully considered for its political effect, the chances are at least even that he is merely obeying a natural impulse, which may make for either strength or weakness.

I came to San Antonio, and it's known for the River Walk. So I was just doing some sightseeing, I looked at the bridge and I thought, 'Man, if I do a flip off this bridge, that would be super-cool.' I don't recommend anybody jump off that bridge.

The human mind is too apt to rush from one extreme to another; it appears, by the objections that came from the different States … For now the cry is power, give Congress power. Without reflecting that every free nation, that hath ever existed, has lost its liberty by the same rash impatience, and want of necessary caution.

I got married way too young.

I met [my editor] in a bar where alcoholic beverages are served and I bought her one and I told her the idea. And she said that she liked it very much, which embarrassed me because I thought it meant that she was a lightweight and that in the morning, as so many women say to so many men, what seems like a good idea, you know, turns out not to be.

Now, I'm not against sex before marriage, but two minutes before? When the organist played "Here Comes the Bride".

I threw [Picasso's] drawing on the floor and in doing so, threw away about £50m.

When in doubt, blow something up.

There are no truer choices than those made in crisis, choices made without judgment.

If you had half as much brains as you have beard, you would have looked before you leaped.

Passion often makes fools of the wisest men and gives the silliest wisdom.