indecisive behavior Quotes

I am impatient with directors who don't know what they want, and the way you don't know what they want is because they want to do one more. "Let's do one more." So, "What for?" I guarantee you there's not going to be a change.

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

Such is your cold coquette, who can't say "No," And won't say "Yes," and keeps you on and off-ing On a lee-shore, till it begins to blow, Then sees your heart wreck'd, with an inward scoffing.

To be constantly changing one's plans isn't decision at all-it's indecision.

I somehow got this reputation of diddling and dithering. I don't remember dithering at all.

No man is able to make progress when he is wavering between opposite things.

If you don't know what to play, play nothing.

We have all heard of the animal standing in doubt between two stacks of hay and starving to death, the like of which would never happen to Gen. Cass. Place stacks a thousand miles apart: he would stand stock still, midway between them, and eat them both at once; and the green grass along the line would be apt to suffer some, too, at the same time.

There's nothing worse than a director that keeps changing their mind. Because, unlike the directors I work with, I'm not decisive at all.

No man is so dangerous as the man who cannot decide what he fears.

I'm never, never sure which way to go. I'm full of unsureness. That's been a habit for years. I never really want to commit.

Make up your mind, Snail! You are half inside your house, And halfway out!

Feeble and timid minds . . . consider the use of dilatory and ambiguous measures as the most admirable efforts of consummate prudence.

Irresolution and mutability are often the faults of men whose views are wide, and whose imagination is vigorous and excursive.