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Quotes About Indecision

The river was nowhere and everywhere, for he could not decide which of a hundred green lagoons offered the most pleasant and least speedy path to the Gulf. So he traveled them all, and so did we. He divided and rejoined, he twisted and turned, he meandered in awesome jungles, he all but ran in circles, he dallied with lovely groves, he got lost and was glad of it, and so were we. For the last word in procrastination, go travel with a river reluctant to lose his freedom in the sea.
~ Aldo Leopold
In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.
~ William James
There's a big difference between me and other YouTubers - a lot of them have big, concrete plans. I'm still this weird chicken with my head cut off. I don't know what I want to do next and haven't known that since I started.
~ Jenna Marbles
I think when people ask me, 'Who's your favourite player?' it's hard for me to answer.
~ Ada Hegerberg
The idea of taking off my shoes and trying on all these clothes is so exhausting, I just leave.
~ Lexa Doig
We think we want to do something and when it comes to it, we don't. We don't like to commit.
~ Linda McCartney
The way we always want to compromise between everything, I think that's really Belgian. I think I'm really Belgian for that, because I never make choices. That's my problem, actually.
~ Stromae
When it comes to being confused about what to do about life, that's been me and will always be me.
~ James L. Brooks
When I was younger - up until I was 19 years old and in college - I was surrounded with people in high school who felt like they knew what they wanted to do with their lives, and that was intimidating to me because I didn't.
~ James Marsden
If you see something that speaks to you and you can swing it, don't question. I don't regret anything that I've ever bought, only the things that slipped away.
~ Bryan Batt
I don't know. I just feel stuck, like I'm afraid to take any steps, in case they're the wrong ones.
~ Rebecca Stead
What did it matter what he did? Life would be equally purposeless no matter what his decision was.
~ Richard Matheson
Having come to the conclusion that there was so much to do that she didn't know where to start, Mrs Fowler decided not to start at all. She went to the library, took Diary of a Nobody from the shelves and, returning to her wicker chair under the lime tree, settled down to waste what precious hours still remained of the day.
~ Richmal Crompton
I wasn't sure whether I was supposed to kneel or buy stamps from him or what.
~ Rick Riordan
He didn't know what he wanted. He only knew what he didn't want.
~ Kathryn Lasky
Depression affects not only mood but the nature and content of thought as well. Thinking processes almost always slow down, and decisiveness is replaced by indecision and rumination. The ability to concentrate is usually greatly impaired and willful action and thought become difficult if not impossible.
~ Kay Redfield Jamison
Damned indecision and cursed pride.
~ Michael Jackson
Prime Neuron Untriggered? First Decider Undecided?
~ William Peter Blatty
Procrastination is what we often call 'resistance.'
~ William Peter Blatty
We have done but greenly,In hugger-mugger to inter him.
~ William Shakespeare
Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any fantasy. Explain away any goal. I'm so smart I can negate any dream.
~ Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
Así son las cosas, nos pasamos toda la vida buscando algo y cuando por fin lo tenemos al alcance de la mano, nos asaltan las dudas y no sabemos qué hacer.
~ Javier Tomeo
In a thousand little ways, it seemed as though Grant was fated to fight this civil war. In battle, what galled Grant most was indecision. Once, an aide asked if he thought he was always right. "No!" Grant ripped back. "I am not, but in war anything is better than indecision. We must decide. If I am wrong we shall soon find it out and can do the other thing. But not to decide… may rum everything.
~ Jay Winik
You need an infinite stretch of time ahead of you to start to think, infinite energy to make the smallest decision. The world is getting denser. The immense number of useless projects is bewildering. Too many things have to be put in to balance up an uncertain scale. You can't disappear anymore. You die in a state of total indecision.
~ Jean Baudrillard