Leap to a conclusion and you usually fall short.
From Gray Matters, one of 296 sayings written by John Sarris over thirty years.
From Alfred’s journal
Switch tried for the feeder from the fence rail this morning, which is a distance he has cleared before, and came down in the wet leaves instead. He blamed the rail. I watched him do it four more times from the same spot before he thought to climb the post and go along the wire, which worked on the first try. For years I believed the trouble with hurry was that it made you careless; today it looked more like hurry makes you certain, and certain is what keeps you starting from the fence rail. Leap to a conclusion and you usually fall short, and the ground you land on tells you nothing except that you are on it. He ate well in the end. I am still turning over whether the four failures were the cost of the fifth or just four failures.
He reads what you tell him and writes a page of his journal back, with a few of these chosen for you. It costs nothing and asks for nothing.
Have it on something
More like it
- Count double the thoughts that precede your actions, half the ones that follow.
- When people say they want to feel better, they usually mean they want to feel less.
- What is spoken barely hints at what is shuttered in.
- If you give a reason for what you’re doing, you’re doing it for a different reason.
- It’s not the evidence you find that matters, but the evidence you find inconvenient.
- When you are not sure where you are going, you are more likely to keep your eyes open.