Sheila Heti Quotes

It's not like you make a decision and everything inside you is 100 percent happy.

Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.

There is no shame is being ambivalent about almost everything in your life.

I like to sit on things and digest them and then I'll figure out my next move, but I never said I was right for doing anything.

Now I'm confused. Now I don't know what I want.

He can't decide whether to leave his visor half open or half closed.

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.

So basically, I don't know what I'm talking about. But maybe I do.

Everything I do, I'm sort of half in, half out.

I'm not making up my mind about anything right now. Things are happening so quickly for me, and I'm still in the thinking stage.

I don't know whether I like it, but it is what I meant.

How long halt ye between two opinions?

I made up my mind, but I made it up both ways.

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.

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

One of the biggest lessons I've learned recently is that when you don't know what to do, you should do nothing until you figure out what to do because a lot of times you feel like you are pressed against the wall, and you've got to make a decision. You never have to do anything. Don't know what to do? Do nothing.

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

At the moment, I'm certainly not thinking 'never again', but neither am I thinking 'I can't wait to play that part again'. I'm somewhere in between.

They were close enough that he could feel the hurried beat of her heart. He could feel Charlotte's indecision in every word she didn't say and every move she didn't make. She was tense with uncertainty, quivering with irresolution. She might not be leaning into him, but she wasn't pulling away, either.

Make up your mind, Snail! You are half inside your house, And halfway out!

I waited a second. Should I? No... but I will.

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

Often, if there's something that I want to do, but somehow can't get myself to do, it's because I don't have clarity. This lack of clarity often arises from a feeling of ambivalence - I want to do something, but I don't want to do it; or I want one thing, but I also want something else that conflicts with it.

It is worse to be irresolute than to be wrong.

I don't feel real confident expressing myself except when I'm writing. I feel kind of scatterbrained. I can see everything from both sides and that makes it hard to reach conclusions. Writing enables me to clarify things.