A little bear cub was confused about how to walk. "What do I do first?" He asked
his mother. "Do I start with my right foot or my left? Or both front feet and
then my back feet? Or do I move both feet on one side and then both feet on the
other?"
His mother answered, "Just quit thinking and start walking."
She was wise, for things will happen only after we put aside thinking and
talking and start doing.
Nolan Bushnell, the founder of Atari, said that everyone who has ever taken a
shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and
does something about it who makes a difference. Or, as columnist Sydney Harris
puts it, "Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for
the things we did not do that is inconsolable."
One of the most important lessons we can learn is to act on a good idea.
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