Patrick Leahy Quotes

Sometimes if you have a difficult decisin to make, just stall until the answer presents itself.

Well, if you're waitin' for a woman to make up her mind, you may have a a long wait.

The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.

He who hesitates is sometimes saved.

Never do today what you can do tomorrow. Something may occur to make you regret your premature action.

I always thought it better to allow myself to doubt before I decided, than to expose myself to the misery, after I had decided, of doubting whether I had decided rightly and justly.

To delay action until there Is one hundred percent certainty Is always to postpone political action forever.

Today, whenever I'm under pressure to make a decision on a transaction but I don't know what the right one is, I try desperately to postpone it. I'll insist on more information - on doing extra laps around the intellectual parking lot - before committing. I take the same approach with people, too.

Never make a decision until you have to.

In any organization there ought to be the possibility of discussion... fence sitting is an art, and it's difficult, and it's important to do, rather than to go headlong in one direction or the other. It's just better to have action, isn't it than to sit on the fence? Not if you're not sure which way to go, it isn't.

Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.

Occasionally and frequently the exercise of the judgment ought to end in absolute reservation. It may be very distasteful, and great fatigue, to suspend a conclusion; but as we are not infallible, so we ought to be cautious; we shall eventually find our advantage, for the man who rests in his position is not so far from right as he who, proceeding in a wrong direction, is ever increasing his distance.

I procrastinate, and I push writing to the last available moment, because I don't like to settle on anything. I guess you can call it indecision or you can call it holding out for inspiration.

He who hesitates is poor.

I'm just never getting there. I'm getting round to it. I'm beginning to understand it a bit more.

It is worse to be irresolute than to be wrong.

Indecision may or may not be my problem.

Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all.

I have hesitation making any kind of decision, really in my life. I'm really slow at it.

The woman that deliberates is lost.

Not to decide is to decide.

When you doubt, abstain.

I have always found that if I move with seventy-five percent or more of the facts that I usually never regret it. It's the guys who wait to have everything perfect that drive you crazy.

If you are the kind of person who is waiting for the 'right' thing to happen, you might wait for a long time. It's like waiting for all the traffic lights to be green for five miles before starting the trip.

When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say.