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Quotes About Indecisiveness

I change my mind so much, I'm better going on my own. Shopping is a selfish activity anyway.
~ Sophie Kinsella
In a life, it is the in-betweens that are fatal. It is the indecisiveness that killed his son.
~ Abraham Verghese
Did I want meat or fish for dinner? I couldn't decide. Hair up or down? Either. Would I prefer to walk or bike? Neither. I wanted to sleep. It felt as if in making any inconsequential decision, I might choose wrongly and forever close a door; there would go my other life.
~ Adrienne Brodeur
My head spins. One moment I'm told I'm too edgy, then people say I'm too angry, then that I show too much passion... make your minds up.
~ Nick Clegg
If I were your enemy, I'd magnify your fears, making them appear insurmountable, intimidating you with enough worries until avoiding them becomes your driving motivation. I would use anxiety to cripple you, to paralyze you, leaving you indecisive, clinging to safety and sameness, always on the defensive because of what might happen. When you hear the word faith, all I'd want you to hear is "unnecessary risk.
~ Priscilla Shirer
I've waffled before. I'll waffle again.
~ Howard Dean
I change my mind every five minutes. I'm very brutal with my own process. I throw everything away very quickly, and then I have to go out and rummage through the rubbish in the middle of the night to try to find a bit I'd written a week ago.
~ Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Even now she can't decide. She thinks about flipping a coin. Heads she goes, tails she stays. But isn't indecisiveness an early sign of mental illness?
~ Judy Blume
When in doubt, mumble.
~ James H. Boren
It makes one feel such a fool," said Mrs. Oliver, ruefully, "not to be able to be definite.
~ Agatha Christie
I'd like to be more decisive. I can take an hour to choose between two brands of washing powder in the supermarket.
~ Victoria Coren Mitchell
He had discovered love; but he had also begun to discover that love, far from making him 'what he was', far from spreading deep content all over him like carnation oil, would make him self-conscious and indecisive. He loved Tanya most clearly when he was away from her. When they were together, there were expectations on both sides which he was either unable to identify or couldn't respond to.
~ Julian Barnes
All my life I have struggled with making decisions—which I blame on being a true Libra—
~ Julie Andrews Edwards
My problem is I'm a man of no convictions - at least, I think I am.
~ Christopher Hampton
The irresolute man flecks from one egg to another, so hatches nothing.
~ Owen Feltham
I like freedom. I wake up in the morning and say, 'I don't know, should I have a popsicle or a donut?' You know, who knows?
~ Oscar Nunez
As Hitler quipped to his staff, Beck was only ever able to make up his mind when his decision was against doing something!)
~ David Irving
I think that's in my case everything I do takes so long because I don't have one direction. I'm just doing what I feel at the moment. It would probably be good, though, to have some direction.
~ Uffie
I'm the guy who will eat something that looks nice when I'm out, but when I take it home in a doggie bag, it'll sit in the back of my refrigerator until it starts to move.
~ Dustin Diamond
Tonight's show is about doubt. Or maybe it isn't - haven't made my mind up yet.
~ Bill Bailey
To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.
~ Eva Young
You want to be the one making the decisions. Sitting on the fence is one thing, but what happens when the fence is taken away from you? Do you jump off joyfully or fall crashing to the floor?
~ Alexandra Potter
Not many college students know what they want to do.
~ Andie MacDowell
People with anxiety disorders such as OCD know that nothing can be more paralyzing than having too many options. Go to a store to buy a sweater, find four that you like and the odds are pretty good you'll stare and stare... and buy nothing at all.
~ Jeffrey Kluger