Jim Thome Quotes

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

Well, this would be nice if it worked out, but I'm not selling the farm.

I think an important lesson from the game is that once you have made a move, you cannot take it back. You really have to measure your decisions. You think a lot. You evaluate your choices very carefully. There's never any guarantee about what's going to follow once you have made a decision.

Responsibility's like a string we can only see the middle of. Both ends are out of sight.

We should not get ourselves committed until we know how everything will come out.

People fall in love with their identity with their own position and are often reluctant to leave.

It appears to me one of those questions which present great inconveniences whichever way it is decided.

If you fire him, you get two for the price of one.

Nobody likes to make a hard decision, because you're running every two years.

You're not going to see me on the sidelines. I enjoy it, I miss it, but not enough to get back.

Every choice you make has higher stakes - or that's how it feels.

When anything can happen, everything matters.

I know, but no matter what I choose I have to live with it. Forever. I have to be able to go forward and not look back anymore. Can you understand that?

But a knife ain't just a thing, is it? It's a choice, it's something you do. A knife says yes or no, cut or not, die or don't. A knife takes a decision out of your hand and puts it in the world and it never goes back again.

And having once chosen, never to seek to return to the crossroads of that decision-for even if one chooses wrongly, the choice cannot be unmade.

You don't push the button that says "Now I will write something that resonates in time." You don't know. It's what happens after a play is finished.

Every great decision creates ripples. Like a huge boulder dropping in a lake. The ripples merge and rebound off the banks in unforseeable ways. The heavier the decision, the larger the waves, the more uncertain the consequences.

I knew it was all or nothing.

Sometimes a man and a woman reach a crossroads and linger there, reluctant to take either way, knowing the wrong choice will mean the end... and knowing there’s so much worth saving.

It's too late to change your mind after you've jumped off the cliff.

Stand at the crossroads if you will, but if you'll not choose, I'll move on without you

Withholding a decision is a decision.

There aren't any answers, only choices

If I look back after 10 weeks and say I really want to stay then maybe I can make that happen. If I say OK it was good, but I’m ready to go then I can go, but for now I’m taking it week by week.

When the door opens, I realize that the only thing worse than waiting is the moment you realize a decision has been made.