Richard Dawkins Quotes

I try to make good decisions as decisions come up.

The hardest time to tell: when to stop.

It is profitable wisdom to know when we have done enough: Much time and pains are spared in not flattering ourselves against probabilities.

The timing of your decision is just as important as the decision you make.

When the time for decision arrives, the time for preparation is past.

If there was one thing life had taught her it was that there are times when you do not go back for your bag and times when you do. It had yet to teach her to distinguish between the two types of occasion.

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

The courage to say no, the courage to say yes. Decisions do determine Destiny.

I'm going with the flow. I feel when the time is right to stop, it will be flashing in neon lights for me, like this is it. It could be this year, it could be next year, I have no idea. Anyone in their profession seems to think it's fairly clear when it's the right time. I haven't had that moment of clarity.

Stay alert. The big moral crossroads in your life may not come labeled as such.

Never settle. There is no reason to rush.

you must be careful never to allow doubt to paralyze you. always take the decisions you need to take, even if you're not sure you're doing the right thing. You'll never go wrong if, when you make a decision, you keep in mind an old German proverb: 'The devil is in the detail.' Remember that proverb and you'll always be able to turn a wrong decision into a right one.

When you have a time of crisis what happens depends on what ideas are floating around, and what ideas have been developed, and thought through, and are made effective.

Playing for complications is an extreme measure that a player should adopt only when he cannot find a clear and logical plan.

Investment decisions and personal decisions don't wait for the picture to be clarified.

That is the trouble with many inventors; they lack patience. They lack the willingness to work a thing out slowly and clearly and sharply in their mind, so that they can actually "feel it work." They want to try their first idea right off; and the result is they use up lots of money and lots of good material, only to find eventually that they are working in the wrong direction. We all make mistakes, and it is better to make them before we begin.

We are all living this dance and it is clearly fraught with making choices. Lots of my choices are bad and that's normal. None of us are attractive at all times. What is attractive to me is authenticity.

Your life~the way it looks today is a result of your choices...What will you choose today for your tomorrows?

I've never regretted saying no to anything, or finishing something. When I'm in the middle of doing something I love, I can have a better idea, and I'll go, "Oh God, I can't finish this." Maybe I've got some sort of disorder.

Life is full of choices, but you never get any!

When we deliberate it is about means and not ends.

Anything worth doing, is worth doing all the way. Just know you'll have to live with all the choices that you make.

When you're making a critical decision, you have to understand how it's going to be interpreted from all points of view. Not just your point of view, not just the person you're talking to, but the people that aren't in the room. Everybody else.

What shapes our lives are the questions we ask, refuse to ask, or never think to ask.

There's a point when you go with what you've got. Or you don't go.