decision avoidance Quotes

A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.

It's a lot easier to let someone else be Caesar.

I've noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it's far enough in the future.

Making no decision is a decision. To do nothing. And doing nothing always brings you to nowhere.

OPTION PARALYSIS: The tendency, when given unlimited choices, to make none.

What you decide not to do is probably more important that what you decide to do.

On Capitol Hill we like to make tough speeches. We don’t like to make tough choices.

I don't know. Your the Jedi Master, you figure it out.

The perfect bureaucrat … is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.

I really enjoy just being an actor. It's fun to be surprised by someone else's writing and to collaborate in creating a character and to leave all the hard decision-making to some other room full of suckers!

But in life you have to take lots of decisions and if you don't take decisions you would never do anything because you would spend all your time choosing between things you could do. So it is good to have a reason why you hate some things and you like others.

A plan relieves you of the torment of choice.

[Cost-benefit analysis is used:] ... to produce lofty academic-sounding reasons for endless inaction.

We’re partial to putting out large amounts of money where we won’t have to make another decision.

Inaction and indecision in the present is because of fear of consequences of the future.

There was a choice to be made, and Lena hadn't made it. The songs never lied. At least, they hadn't yet.

Personally, I like it much better when someone else does the decision making. That way you have legitimate grounds to whine and complain. I tend to find both whining and complaining quite interesting and amusing, though sometimes--unfortunately--it's hard to choose which one of the two I want to do. Sigh. LIfe can be so tough sometimes.

Meetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreement and then the people who disagree come to think they have a right to be persuaded. However, they are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.

Never to have occasion to take a position, to make up one's mind, or to define oneself - there is no wish I make more often.

I am irrevocably committed to being permanently indecisive.

Boredom is usually what spurs either bad decisions or any decision at all.

The idea of taking off my shoes and trying on all these clothes is so exhausting, I just leave.

A decision is what a man makes when he can't find anybody to serve on a committee.

Guidelines for bureaucrats: (1) When in charge, ponder. (2) When in trouble, delegate. (3) When in doubt, mumble.