William Feather Quotes

As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.

I'm the guy who spends 15 minutes staring out of the window wondering what to have for lunch.

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.

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

I'm the most indecisive person in the world. I'll do three versions of a song, then think, "Is the demo better?"

Indecision is the greatest thief of opportunity.

Second-guess [myself]? Yes, I do. I question everything I do every step of the way. Once I make the decision I'm almost blinded by believing in it, and then I usually hate everything I've done.

When the mind is in a state of uncertainty the smallest impulse directs it to either side.

To be constantly changing one's plans isn't decision at all-it's indecision.

We're mostly macrobiotic, but sometimes I take the family out for a pizza.

Doubt is long-winded. Certainty is brief.

Three people marooned on a desert island would soon reinvent politics.

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.

If you hesitate to map out your future, to make a big plan or to set a goal, you've just gone ahead and mapped your future anyway.

If you don't know what to play, play nothing.

I somehow got this reputation of diddling and dithering. I don't remember dithering at all.

I very rarely made any move to direct anything. I didn't have any faith in myself.

Simple it's not, I'm afraid you will find, for a mind maker-upper to make up his mind

You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

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

We have 51 golf courses in Palm Springs. He [President Ford] never decides which course he will play until after the first tee shot.

Somewhere between the janitor and the CEO, reasons stop mattering.

True' and 'false' are the evasions of people who never want to arrive at a decision. Truth is something without end.

A friend told me to listen to my heart. Another friend told me to listen to my gut. Maybe I need an autopsy, because right now my colon is kind of iffy.

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