Undecided Quotes

• The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.

  Casey Stengel

  Motivational, Business, Hate

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• Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Business, Intelligent, Thinking

  "Peter's Almanac". Book by Laurence J. Peter. Entry for September 24, 1982.

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• Most people fail at whatever they attempt because of an undecided heart. Should I? Should I not? Go forward? Go back? Success requires the emotional balance of a committed heart. When confronted with a challenge, the committed heart will search for a solution. The undecided heart searches for an escape. A committed heart does not wait for conditions to be exactly right. Why? Because conditions are never exactly right.

  Andy Andrews

  Heart, Emotional, People

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

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• Life is so brief and time is a thief when you're undecided.

  Rod Stewart

  Philosophy, Thieves, Life Is

  Song: Young Turks

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• Decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.

  Winston Churchill

  Powerful, Fluidity, Adamant

  Speech in House of Commons, 12 Nov. 1936

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• The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted: thence proceeds mawkishness.

  John Keats

  Life, Ambition, Character

  'Endymion' (1818) preface

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• Never think of failure, for what we think will come about.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Thinking

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• When confronted with a challenge, the committed heart will search for a solution. The undecided heart searches for an escape.

  Andy Andrews

  Motivational, Determination, Heart

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

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• That's the trouble with trying to influence an undecided voter. First you have to find one

  Pat Sajak

  Trying, Voters, Firsts

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• When we think of failure; failure will be ours. If we remain undecided nothing will ever change. All we need to do is want to achieve something great and then simply to do it. Never think of failure, for what we think, will come about.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Change, Yoga, Thinking

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• In 1948 I entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, undecided between studies of chemistry and physics, but my first year convinced me that physics was more interesting to me.

  Burton Richter

  Technology, Years, Interesting

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• I am undecided whether or not the Milky Way is but one of countless others all of which form an entire system. Perhaps the light from these infinitely distant galaxies is so faint that we cannot see them.

  Johann Heinrich Lambert

  Light, Way, Form

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• Campaigns fail if they waste resources courting voters who are unpersuadable or already persuaded. Their most urgent task is to find and persuade the few voters who are genuinely undecided and the larger number who are favorably disposed but need a push to actually vote.

  James Surowiecki

  Numbers, Tasks, Needs

  "Calculating Campaigns". www.newyorker.com. September 24, 2012.

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• Man is too quick at forming conclusions.

  Edward E. Barnard

  Men, Conclusion

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• It is well to fetter the wings of our fancy and restrain its flights.

  Edward E. Barnard

  Wings, Fancy, Flight

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• Pride and curiosity are the two scourges of our souls. The latter prompts us to poke our noses into everything, and the former forbids us to leave anything unresolved and undecided.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Pride, Two, Soul

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Essays”

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• I mean by intellectual integrity the habit of deciding vexed questions in accordance with the evidence, or of leaving them undecided where the evidence is inconclusive. This virtue, though it is underestimated by almost all adherents of any system of dogma, is to my mind of the very greatest social importance and far more likely to benefit the world than Christianity or any other system of organized beliefs.

  Bertrand Russell

  Integrity, Mean, Leaving

  Bertrand Russell (1992). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell, 1903-1959”, p.598, Psychology Press

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• A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there in a book, you may have your question answered

  E. B. White

  Book, Library, May

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• Where one is hopelessly undecided as to what to say, there (as Confucius would have said, if they had given him the opportunity) silence is golden.

  Lewis Carroll

  Opportunity, Silence, Golden

  Lewis Carroll (1979). “The Letters of Lewis Carroll: ca. 1837-1885”

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• It's no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another.

  George H. W. Bush

  Funny, Stupid, Patriotic

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• All argument is against it; but all belief is for it.

  Samuel Johnson

  Atheism, Belief, Argument

  Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 31 Mar. 1778)

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• Often undecided whether to desert a sinking ship for one that might not float, he would make up his mind to sit on the wharf for a day.

  Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook

  Mind, Desert, Might

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• Then they began to say: 'Yes, but how can we know what is God's Word, and what is right or wrong? We must learn this from the Pope and the councils.' Very well then, let them conclude and say what they please, yet I will reply, you cannot put your confidence in that nor thus satisfy your conscience, for you must determine this matter yourself, for your very life depends upon it. Therefore God must speak to your heart: This is God's Word; otherwise you are undecided.

  Martin Luther

  Heart, Matter, Speak

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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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• A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you may find encouragement and comfort. A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there, in a book, you may have your question answered. Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people - people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.

  E. B. White

  Inspiring, Encouragement, Book

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