P. J. Harvey Quotes

I'm pretty good at thinking about everything - all of my consequences - before I make a decision, and I think about everything that's going to happen because of that decision. I'm a Libra, and I'm very strategic.

People who deliberate fully before they take a step will spend their lives on one leg

I'm a Libra, I always have two sides of everything.

People who think too much before they act don't act too much.

The woman that deliberates is lost.

When men think much, they can rarely decide.

Every decision you make in life, not just on the sporting field - a lot of time and energy goes into it. You think things through before you make decisions and you always think the decision you make at the time is going to be the right one.

I always come to conclusions very fast. Well, that is one way of thinking, and the other way would be that I lack the necessary perseverance to stick to one thing that really fits me. I don't know if it's a good thing or bad thing.

I'm an October baby, yes.

If you try and cover all your bases, like the ECB tend to do, you end up with muddled decisions.

The way we always want to compromise between everything, I think that's really Belgian. I think I'm really Belgian for that, because I never make choices. That's my problem, actually.

Timorous minds are much more inclined to deliberate than to resolve.

Nowadays not even a suicide kills himself in desperation. Before taking the step he deliberates so long and so carefully that he literally chokes with thought. It is even questionable whether he ought to be called a suicide, since it is really thought which takes his life. He does not die with deliberation but from deliberation.

When "Why not do it?" barely outweighs "Why do it?" — don't do it.

When you're having trouble making a decision you're making it too soon.

Dudley thought for a moment. It looked like hard work.

When the mind is in a state of uncertainty the smallest impulse directs it to either side.

Each human being was given two possibilities: action and contemplation. Both lead to the same place.

I am seriously considering it.

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.

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

A person sometimes can't make a decision unless they know what decision to make.

We re all muddlers. The thing is to see is when one's got to stop muddling.

Yes and no are soon said, but give much to think over.

We associate leadership with decisiveness. That perception of leadership pushes people to make decisions fairly quickly, lest they be seen as dithering and indecisive.