Jay Asher Quotes

I hesitated for all the right reasons. And I accepted for all the wrong ones.

If you have any question in your mind, don't do it. If you go in thinking it's going to fix something that's wrong, don't do it.

It is worse to be irresolute than to be wrong.

You aren't sure if you're making the right decision - about anything, ever.

Indecision may or may not be my problem.

I have reservations about everything I do.

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

When you doubt, abstain.

I was disappointed a little in Stevenson because I did think he couldn't make up his mind. It's the feeling I always had. Perhaps all of us have self-doubt, and we should have, and most of us do, but it doesn't show. It doesn't show as much as it did in Adlai; he seemed to do it in public.

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.

I'm not a big believer in second-guessing decisions.

Even the things we are certain about are only an illusion. We are born with a female side and a male side, and these two sides are always fighting and challenging each other. This is why anything we want to do, we have the other side of telling us not to do it, to be careful about it.

It's only human to have a few doubts whether to play or not.

The thing to do when you're feeling ambivalent is to wait.

A lot of times, I'll be shooting and think, 'Maybe I should pass.'

You've got to stop going back and forth. You've got to make up your mind.

I had two thoughts about it. One was I could do that, and the next one was I'll never get to do that.

There wasn't a time where I felt fearful that I couldn't make the best decisions possible.

When you're put in a position where you're having to decide, Is this a good decision? Is this the right decision for everybody involved? - it makes me feel a little unsteady, unsure.

I know I should just leave. Just go. Because there's a point where a mistake turns into a big mistake, and I should probably come to my senses before I get there.

Second-guess [myself]? Yes, I do. I question everything I do every step of the way. Once I make the decision I'm almost blinded by believing in it, and then I usually hate everything I've done.

A changeableness, too, as if beneath my visible face there was another, having second thoughts.

It's uncomfortable to resist the urge to settle.

When in doubt, doubt the doubt!

What should I do—how should I act now, this very day . . . What she would resolve to do that day did not yet seem quite clear, but something that she could achieve stirred her as with an approaching murmur which would soon gather distinctness.