T. S. Eliot Quotes

The woman that deliberates is lost.

Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.

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

Indecisiveness wears a person out.

I'm holding back, delaying the information. I'm lingering in the prior moment because it was a time when other outcomes were still possible.

He who hesitates is poor.

I second-guess and overthink and rethink every single thing that I do.

It is worse to be irresolute than to be wrong.

I question every move. I'm constantly second-guessing myself.

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

I used to second guess myself all the time. I can sit there and work in circles when I'm nervous about what I'm doing.

He who hesitates is sometimes saved.

I have hesitation making any kind of decision, really in my life. I'm really slow at it.

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

To delay action until there Is one hundred percent certainty Is always to postpone political action forever.

I'm the worst at making decisions!

There's always a reason not to do anything... to flee the need to make decisions.

Hesitation is often like procrastination. One may have vague doubts and feel a need to mull things over; meanwhile, other issues intrude on thought, and no decision is taken. Ask people why they procrastinate, and you probably won't get a crisp answer.

I'm not good with decisions.

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

That's the one thing I don't like hearing, when someone says, 'We'll see what happens, see what happens here, see what happens there.' Forget all of that.

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.

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