Franklin P. Adams Quotes

My first husband would never make up his mind in less than five years, so I used to get him to think that whatever course of action needed to be taken was his idea. Then he'd go right ahead.

I have the will of a flip-flop.

You never know with me. I change my mind like I change my job. And I do that very often.

Instability of temper ought to be checked when it disposes men to wander from one scheme to another: since such a fickleness cannot but be attended with fatal consequences.

I'm impressionable, that's for sure.

Even though I'm a chairman, I don't always get my way.

I'm a goofball. I'm always changing my mind.

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.

I have a lot of power. Here, I can decide: training at six in the morning! Training 11 in the night! But my style is not to impose. I would like to convince the players of what they are doing. This takes more time.

I thought a book on miracles might be a great idea, but just because it's a great idea doesn't mean I'm supposed to do it. But my editor persisted, and eventually I thought, 'He's right. I should write this book.'

Salespeople are in the decision business. Their livelihood depends on the decisions of others.

Without an identity, you cannot plan and you cannot convince a player to do what you want.

I'm probably more persuasive than the next person if I want to be, but do I want to be? In my head, I just don't go there.

DECIDE, v.i. To succumb to the preponderance of one set of influences over another set.

He never complicates a desire by overthinking it, unlike Mirabelle, who spins a cocoon around an idea until it is immobile.

Few are open to conviction, but the majority of men are open to persuasion

He [D'Artangnan] succumbs to her [Miledy Winter] level of seduction and gives into it. It's only when the series starts to progress that he realizes what she's doing, and the tables turn slightly. But that relationship really pays homage to how D'Artagnan can be easily swayed. You see him grow into somebody who can actually make a decision where he's not being used and forced into doing something that he doesn't want to do.

He to whom many objects of pursuit arise at the same time, will frequently hesitate between different desires till a rival has precluded him, or change his course as new attractions prevail, and harass himself without advancing.

You change your mind Like a girl changes clothes

Few there were who could change his courses by counsel. None by force.

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink.

Irresolution on the schemes of life which offer themselves to our choice, and inconstancy in pursuing them, are the greatest causes of all our unhappiness.

The intelligent, like the unintelligent, are responsive to propaganda.

I'm quite a compulsive person-I only worked this out recently - I'm compulsive, but I'm also very indecisive. I don't know what I want, but I know that I want it now.

My moods are continuously shifting like the weather.