Paul Samuelson Quotes

When you come to a fork in the road, take it.

There is such a choice of difficulties, that I own myself at a loss how to determine

I could go back in the direction I had come from, or I could go forward in the direction I intended to go.

I'm standing at a crossroads. I'm not entirely sure what the future holds ... I'm at a crossroads, but it's a little bit different than the crossroads I've been at before because I'm doing what I do because I love it, and doing what I do because it's pure passion.

Do not stand in the middle, go to the right or to the left.

He can't decide whether to leave his visor half open or half closed.

When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.

Sometimes there are two very opposite directions, and we go with the stronger one at the end. It's an impulse thing, like, 'Oh, I love both so much, but it's got to be one or the other because the two don't work together.'

You can and you can't You will and you won't You'll be damned if you do You'll be damned if you don't

To remove or not to remove? That is the question.

Where there is no alternative there is no problem.

This fork in the road happens over a hundred times a day, and it's the choices that you make that will determine the shape of your life.

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth.

All paths are present, always... and we can but choose among them.

It’s like having to make a choice: a blessing or a curse. The one thing you can’t do is choose neither.

In all crises of human affairs there are two broad courses open to a man. He can stay where he is or he can go elsewhere.

I'm sort of like a rat in a maze - I'm moving forward, and any choice I make at the time seems like the only one I can make.

To know there is a choice is to have to make the choice: change or stay: river or rock.

He saw before him two roads, both equally straight ; but he saw two; and that terrified him — him, who had never in his life known but one straight line. And, bitter anguish, these two roads were contradictory.

There is no such thing as no choice. There is always a choice. The only question is whether it's a bearable one.

Even if you're happy with the life you've chosen, you're still curious about the other options.

You can't have your kayak and heat it.

We all make decisions, and within those decisions, we have consequences.

I feel like humans, when you're faced with decisions, you can go up and down: duality.

When you make something you are always offering some choices and denying others.