Quotes About Indecision

And yet when the cup of power neared his lips, he became strangely hesitant, reluctant, perhaps coy.

Naming the plane has not been easy. I initially suggested 'The Charles T. Munger.' Charlie countered with 'The Aberration.' We finally settled on 'The Indefensible.

There is a sense in which I am pretty sure this makes no sense. I don't know where this is going. I don't know how it ends.

The effort of decision, we have seen, is the greatest effort of life; not the doing of the thing, but the making up of one's mind as to which thing to do first. It is commonly this sort of mental indolence, born of indecision, which leads to dawdling habits.

You're clear you don't want to act on your crush, so trust that clarity and be grateful that you have it. My inbox is jammed with emails from people who are not so clear. They're tortured by indecision and guilt and lust. They love X but want to fuck Z....Z is like a motorcycle with no one on it. Beautiful. Going nowhere.

How many evenings did I stand in the middle of grocery store aisle, paralyzed with fear and indecision? It's not just the time I regret; it's the loss of who I might have been if I wasn't so consumed. It's who I might have loved, how I might have lived, what I might have accomplished. I might have been a force to be reckoned with.

People are torn between the pathetic safety of not knowing, and the desire to know.

I left school unsure of what I wanted to do in life.

I think possibly what people working for one hate the most is indecision. Even if I'm completely unsure, I'll pretend I know exactly what I'm talking about and make a decision. The most important thing I can do is try and make myself very clearly understood.

Certainty regarding your career aged 15 is very unusual.

Who hesitate and falter life away and lose tomorrow the ground won today.

If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.

I have never stopped considering not becoming a writer.

But now suddenly it occurs to me that by far the main protagonist of twentieth-century literature must be the chattering mind, which usually means the mind that can't make up its mind, the mind postponing action in indecision and, if we're lucky, poetry.

He just keeps looking left to the hay, and right to the water, trying to decide. Hay or water, hay or water? He's unable to decide, so he eventually falls over and dies of both hunger and thirst. A donkey can't think of the future.

El perfeccionismo genera indecisión, lo cual conduce a la parálisis.

Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?" "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to," said the Cat. "I don't much care where …" said Alice. "Then it doesn't matter which way you go," said the Cat. —LEWIS CARROLL, Alice in Wonderland The

Uncertainty can be the most difficult and frightening of mental states. If you're always wondering which way to go, you might freeze up and not go anywhere. If you're afraid you can't do something, you might not even try.

I am always afraid of your something shall be done.

Often, when I want to consult my impulses, I cannot find them.

Once I make up my mind, I'm full of indecision.

Oh, I don't know, you know, don't you know?

But, Ed! Say! Are you going to let him get away with it? Am I going to let him get away with it! said Mr. Cootes, annoyed by the foolish question. Wake me up in the night and ask me! But what are you going to do? Do! said Mr. Cootes. Do! I'll tell you what I'm going to... He paused, and the stern resolve that shone in his face seemed to flicker. Say, what the hell am I going do? he went on somewhat weakly.

Therese frowned, floundering in a sea without direction or gravity, in which she knew only that she could mistrust her own impulses.