Quotes About Indecision

Cineva trebuie s? duc? acest r?zboi, altfel, ?sta-i viitorul nostru. Matematica îl garanteaz?. Omenirea se complace acum într-un purgatoriu al nehot?rârii, al procastin?rii È™i al l?comiei personale... dar cercurile iadului aÈ™teapt? imediat sub picioarele noastre, gata s? ne înghit? pe toÈ›i.

Mankind is hovering now in a purgatory of procrastination and indecision and personal greed... but the rings of hell await, just beneath our feet, waiting to consume us all.

In his twenties, John Bridgens most identified with Hamlet. The strangely aging Prince of Denmark—Bridgens was quite sure that the boy Hamlet had magically aged over a few theatrical weeks to a man who was, at the very least, in his thirties by Act V—had been suspended between thought and deed, between motive and action, frozen by a consciousness so astute and unrelenting that it made him think about everything, even thought itself.

The best lack all conviction," he thought, "while the worst are full of passionate intensity.

Siri, am I doing the right thing?

Maybe, Gwen said, instead of yes yes yes yes yes yes yes.

Even with the right boy I'd wreck it," I said. "I'd join the navy on impulse and sail off right when he needed me, or we'd have a baby and I'd accidentally put it in my purse. The right boys I always toss and the wrong ones I keep on top of me like paperweights. I know they're the wrong boys and I just go to them.

He who believes is strong he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions. He who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

So we stood there, not knowing either how to stay or how to go, and felt the weight of that failure.

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

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

More options, even good ones, can freeze us and make us retreat to the default plan

What happened here is decision paralysis. More options, even good ones, can freeze us and make us retreat to the default plan, which in this case was a painful and invasive hip-replacement surgery. This behavior clearly is not rational, but it is human.

decision paralysis. More options, even good ones, can freeze us and make us retreat to the default plan

Ambiguity does, too. In times of change, you may not know what options are available. And this uncertainty leads to decision paralysis

All that time tying herself up in knots because she simply couldn't think of  a good reason not to be with him

I'm a man of no convictions. At least, I think I am.

I don't know which is right!

Many families remain for years in the same place, though both husband and wife are sick of it, simply because there is neither complete division nor agreement between them.

When in doubt, my dear fellow, do nothing.

Nekhludoff laughed as he compared himself to the ass in the fable who, while deciding which of the two bales of hay before him he should have his meal from, starved himself.

There are always such people who begin everything but never finish, and I am such a one.

We spend our days in deliberating, and we end them without coming to any resolve.

But being in the middle of it, it wasn't that obvious.