In this world second thoughts, it seems, are best.
Second thoughts have aborted more dreams than all the difficult circumstances, overwhelming obstacles, and dangerous detours fate ever could throw at you.
I love revisions...We can't go back and revise our lives, but being allowed to go back and revise what we have written comes closest.
Repentance follows hasty counsels.
Time...give us enough time and our best-supported decisions will seem wobbly, our certainties whimsical.
For every woman who's ever wondered about the path not taken, Fenton and Steinke mine—with tremendous humor and insight—the mixed blessing of unexpected second chances.
In some ways, getting away from the headquarters and having a little time to reflect allows you to find errors in your strategy. You get to rethink things. Often, that helps me correct a mistake that I made or someone else is about to make.
I don't want to be George Lucas and go back after the fact.