Indecision Quotes - Page 4

• Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

  W. H. Murray

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• I don't do anything with my life except romanticize and decay with indecision.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Decay

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• And indeed there will be time for the yellow smoke that slides along the street rubbing its back upon the window-panes; there will be time , there will be time to prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet; there will be time to murder and create, and time for all the works and days of hands that lift and drop a question on your plate; time for you and time for me, and time yet for a hundred indecisions, and for a hundred visions and revisions, before the taking of toast and tea.

  T. S. Eliot

  Hands, Window Panes, Yellow

  T. S. Eliot (2012). “The Waste Land, Prufrock and Other Poems”, p.8, Courier Corporation

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• The most creative people have learned to tolerate the slight discomfort of indecision for much longer and so, just because they put in more pondering time, their solutions are more creative.

  John Cleese

  People, Choices, Creative

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• The battle of good and evil reduced to a fat woman standing in front of a chocolate shop, saying, Will I? Won’t I? in pitiful indecision.

  Joanne Harris

  Evil, Chocolate, Battle

  Joanne Harris (2000). “Chocolat”, p.26, Penguin

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• Perhaps, on the whole, embarrassment and perplexity are a kind of natural accompaniment to life and movement; and it is better to be driven out of your senses with thinking which of two things you ought to do than to do nothing whatever, and be utterly uninteresting to all the world.

  Margaret Oliphant

  Thinking, Two, Movement

  Margaret Oliphant (2014). “Miss Marjoribanks”, p.430, The Floating Press

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• Do I dare Disturb the universe? In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.

  T. S. Eliot

  Inspirational, Time, Poetry

  T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.6, Faber & Faber

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• The modern version of Buridan's ass [a figurative description of a man of indecision] has a Ph.D., but no time to grow up as he is undecided between making a Leonardo da Vinci in the test tube or planting a Coca Cola sign on Mars.

  Erwin Chargaff

  Growing Up, Men, Mars

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• When I became prime minister last September, I promised the Japanese people that I would not tolerate the politics of indecision. A propensity to delay difficult and weighty decisions has been hurting our country. It is detrimental to our economy, society and future, and it cannot be allowed to continue.

  Yoshihiko Noda

  Country, Hurt, People

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• The enemies inside us: Indifference, Indecision, Doubt, Worry, and Over-caution.

  Jim Rohn

  Worry, Doubt, Enemy

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• The most striking fault in work by young or beginning novelists, submitted for criticism, is irrelevance--due either to infatuation or indecision. To direct such an author's attention to the imperative of relevance is certainly the most useful--and possibly the only--help that can be given.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Irrelevance, Criticism, Faults

  Elizabeth Bowen (1975). “Pictures and conversations”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision. Few, if any, survive their teens. Most surrender to the vague but murderous pressure of adult conformity. It becomes easier to die and avoid conflict than to maintain a constant battle with the superior forces of maturity.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Maturity, Battle

  Maya Angelou (2009). “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”, p.267, Random House

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• Many times through the ages, like as not the chance appears, but because of indecision, man's fond hopes are drowned in tears.

  Ted Turner

  Failure, Men, Tears

  Ted Turner (2010). “Call Me Ted: The Autobiography of the Extraordinary Business Leader and Founder of CNN”, p.18, Hachette UK

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• Pour the bulk of your time into action, not deciding. The state of indecision is a major time waster. Don't spend more than 60 seconds in that state if you can avoid it. Make a firm, immediate decision, and move from uncertainty to certainty to action. Let the world tell you when you're wrong, and you'll soon build enough experience to make accurate, intelligent decisions.

  Steve Pavlina

  Moving, Intelligent, Decision

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• A lobster, when left high and dry among the rock, does not have the sense enough to work his way back to the sea, but waits for the sea to come to him. If it does not come, he remains where he is and dies, although the slightest effort would enable him to reach the waves, which are perhaps within a yard of him. The world is full of human lobsters; people stranded on the rocks of indecision and procrastination, who, instead of putting forth their own energies, are waiting for some grand billow of good fortune to set them afloat.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Procrastination, Rocks, Sea

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• Damned indecision and cursed pride.

  Michael Jackson

  Relationship, Pride, Cursed

  Song: She Is Out Of My Life

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• In our twenties, when there is still so much time ahead of us, time that seems ample for a hundred indecisions, for a hundred visions and revisions—we draw a card, and we must decide right then and there whether to keep that card and discard the next, or discard the first card and keep the second. And before we know it, the deck has been played out and the decisions we have just made will shape our lives for decades to come.

  Amor Towles

  Decision, Vision, Twenties

  Amor Towles (2011). “Rules of Civility: A Novel”, p.323, Penguin

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• Most procrastination is largely indecision. Someone has said that "hell is just truth seen too late."

  Sterling W Sill

  Procrastination, Too Late, Hell

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• Lose the day loitering, 'twill be the same story To-morrow, and the next more dilatory, For indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! What you can do, or think you can, begin it! Only engage, and then the mind grows heated; Begin it, and the work will be completed.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Thinking, Mind, Stories

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1906). “Faust, a Dramatic Mystery”

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• If at first you don't succeed, try management. Indecision is the key to flexibility. If at first you don't succeed, take the tax loss.

  Kirk Kirkpatrick

  Loss, Keys, Trying

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• There is no question that under the Equal Rights Amendment there will be debates at times, indecision at times, litigation at times. Has anyone proposed that we rescind the First Amendment on free speech because there is too much litigation over it? Has anyone suggested the same for the Fourteenth Amendment I don't suppose there has ever been a constitutional amendment with so much litigation?

  Frances Farenthold

  Rights, Democracy, Speech

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• Life will forgive mistakes - Life will not forgive indecision ... Do SOMETHING, take a step.

  Bob Proctor

  Mistake, Forgiving, Steps

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• A committed heart does not wait for conditions to be exactly right. Why? Because conditions are never exactly right. Indecision limits The Almighty and His ability to perform miracles in your life. He has put the vision in you - proceed! To wait, to wonder, to doubt, to be indecisive is to disobey God.

  Andy Andrews

  Life, Heart, Waiting

  Andy Andrews (2005). “The Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions that Determine Personal Success”, p.86, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• 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.

  Anna Wintour

  Hate, Thinking, Talking

  "WWD CEO Summit: Anna Wintour in Conversation With Leslie Moonves". Interview with Leslie Moonves, wwd.com. October 30, 2013.

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• The easiest period in a crisis situation is actually the battle itself. The most difficult is the period of indecision - whether to fight or run away. And the most dangerous period is the aftermath. It is then, with all his resources spent and his guard down, that an individual must watch out for dulled reactions and faulty judgment.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Running, Fighting, Battle

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