Max Aitken Quotes

I find it very hard to make choices.

When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take - choose the bolder.

The woman that deliberates is lost.

When men think much, they can rarely decide.

I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both.

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

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 can be indecisive about things - and the less important something is, the more indecisive I am.

Would I change anything? I don't know, that's a double edge sword for me.

Caught between the tongue and the taste.

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

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.

By dawn he had surrendered, gratefully, to the old inertia, the product of always seeing both sides of every question.

I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant loosing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.

Seeing too much to deny and too little to be sure, I am in a state to be pitied.

Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.

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

Perhaps, on the whole, embarrassment and perplexity are a kind of natural accompaniment to life and movement; and it is better to be driven out of your senses with thinking which of two things you ought to do than to do nothing whatever, and be utterly uninteresting to all the world.

Withholding a decision is a decision.

Between yea and nay, how much difference is there?

It's hard to move on when you can see too many good possibilities or any kind of possibility really. That's something that always kind of slows me down and can be a bad place to be in.

He who hesitates is poor.

It is worse to be irresolute than to be wrong.

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

I don't want to make any huge decisions before I really know what I'm doing and am sure of myself.