quotes about Indecision
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Error often is to be preferred to indecision.
-- Aaron BurrSource : Aaron Burr, Matthew Livingston Davis (1837). “Memoirs of Aaron Burr”, p.337
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If the history of the American sentence were a John Ford movie, its second act would conclude with the young Ernest Hemingway walking into a saloon, finding an etiolated Henry James slumped at the bar in a haze of indecision, and shooting him dead.
-- Adam HaslettSource : "How To Write a (Good) Sentence" by Adam Haslett, www.slate.com. January 23, 2011.
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I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision.
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What is fear after all? It is indecision. You seek some way to resist, escape. There is none.
-- Anne Rice -
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Be decisive. A wrong decision is generally less disastrous than indecision.
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Indecision with the passing of time becomes decision.
-- Bill W. -
Ambivalence is like carbon monoxide - undetectable yet deadly.
-- Cherie Carter-ScottSource : Cherie Carter-Scott (2010). “If Success Is A Game, These Are The Rules”, p.16, Random House
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War's very object is victory, not prolonged indecision. In war there is no substitute for victory.
-- Douglas MacArthur -
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Endurance is frequently a form of indecision.
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Twilight was the worst hour, because it was the hour of indecision.
-- Helen EustisSource : Helen Eustis (2015). “The Horizontal Man: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.69, Library of America
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Fears, indecision, and frustration feed on words. Without words they usually stop. . . . Words are at times good for looking back, but they are confining when I need to act in the present.
-- Hugh Prather -
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Indecision is the greatest thief of opportunity.
-- Jim Rohn -
Things can harden meaningfully in the moment of indecision
-- John AshberySource : John Ashbery (1986). “Selected Poems”, Penguin Group USA
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Indecision is the key to flexibility.
-- Kathy ReichsSource : Kathy Reichs (2006). “Break No Bones: A Novel”, p.99, Simon and Schuster
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Inaction and indecision in the present is because of fear of consequences of the future.
-- L. Ron Hubbard -
Once he makes up his mind, he's full of indecision. - On Dwight D. Eisenhower
-- Oscar Levant -
Once I make up my mind, I'm full of indecision.
-- Oscar Levant -
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I don’t believe for a second that weightlifting is a sport. They pick up a heavy thing and put it down again. To me, that’s indecision.
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Through indecision opportunity is often lost.
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Indecision is actually the individual’s decision to fail.
-- Raymond Charles BarkerSource : Raymond Charles Barker (2011). “The Power of Decision: A Step-By-Step Program to Overcome Indecision and Live Without Failure Forever”, p.28, Penguin
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Delay and indecision are first weapons in the armory of moviemakers.
-- Shirley Temple -
Always remember, indecision is decision - usually against you.
-- Venita VanCaspelSource : Venita VanCaspel (1983). “The power of money dynamics”, Simon & Schuster
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More errors arise from inhibited indecision than from impulsive behavior.
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