Quotes About Indecision

Policy making invariably involves taking measured risks in the face of uncertainty, for one has neither a prior template nor the luxury of indecision.

Policy making invariably involves taking measured risks in the face of uncertainty, for one has neither a prior template nor the luxury of indecision. As an aside, that initial

Autobiographies are always written as if the author had it all mapped out with perfect foresight, ignoring the risks and uncertainties at that time. This misleads, as much as those beautiful photographs of a past holiday abstract from the heat, the mosquitoes, and the lack of connectivity. Policy making invariably involves taking measured risks in the face of uncertainty, for one has neither a prior template nor the luxury of indecision.

Though at every point you showed that what you were saying was true, yet I, convinced by that truth, had no answer to give you except merely slow and sleepy words: "At once"—"But presently"—"Just a little longer, please." But "At once, at once" never came to the point of decision, and "Just a little longer, please" went on and on for a long while. . . .

Deciding not to decide is, of course, among the most important things done by the Supreme Court. It takes a lot of doing, but it can be done.

You aren't sure if you're making the right decision - about anything, ever.

He became nervous, things blurred in his mind, and he would sometimes make a decision simply in order to have the matter settled rather than because he knew what he wanted.

Ana Iris once asked me if I loved him and I told her about the lights in my old home in the capital, how they flickered and you never knew if they would go out or not. You put down your things and you waited and couldn't do anything really until the lights decided. This, I told her, is how I feel.

Unsichere Fragen und ungeeignetster Augenblick, sie zu stellen!

When men think much, they can rarely decide.

There is nothing in the world more pitiable than an irresolute man, oscillating between two feelings, who would willingly unite the two and who does not perceive that nothing can unite them

I spend my money...I don't know on what.

Action cures fear. Indecision, postponement, on the other hand, fuel fear.

Life is so brief and time is a thief when you're undecided.

He who hesitates is lost.

If mankind was playing a baseball game, he would still be choosing his lineup after the game was over.

Damned Neuters in their Middle way of Steering Are neither Fish nor Flesh nor good Red Herring.

Far from having taken any positive step, I have not yet even fommed any resolution.

It is, after all, hard to know what to choose when you aren't really sure what you want.

When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.

As Hitler quipped to his staff, Beck was only ever able to make up his mind when his decision was against doing something!)

I totally don't know what to do." He got up and started pacing. "Am I supposed to get you a present? Or maybe a card. I'm completely lost.

Well, limbo is not a good place to be.

I am not a good decision maker; that's one of the things I don't like about myself.