Indecision is the seedling of fear.
A person sometimes can't make a decision unless they know what decision to make.
Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.
People calculate too much and think too little.
If your fidelity to perfectionism is too high, you never do anything.
If you don't make up your mind, your unmade mind will unmake you.
Too many choices can overwhelm us and cause us to not choose at all. For businesses, this means that if they offer us too many choices, we may not buy anything.
I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual; I'm too abstract; I think too much.
Indecision is the greatest thief of opportunity.
I think a lot of people overthink things.
The first EDSer to see a snake kills it. At GM, first thing you do is organize a committee on snakes. Then you bring in a consultant who knows a lot about snakes. Third thing you do is talk about it for a year.
People who think too much before they act don't act too much.
If you intellectualize and examine the creative process too carefully it can evaporate and vanish. It's not only terribly difficult to talk about, it's also dangerous.
Make a decision! Failure to act is often the biggest failure of all.
I'm not good with decisions.
If you spend more than 13 minutes analyzing economic and market forecasts, you've wasted 10 minutes
When you give people too many choices it makes them hesitate and not buy stuff.
Indecision is a major time waster; 80% of decisions should be made the first time they come up
If every conceivable precaution is taken at first, one is often too discouraged to proceed at all.
I was frequently told at drama school that I was thinking too much.
I think intellectualization is what's killing most people.
I've always felt some kind of connection to people who are kind of over-smart. People who over-think things to the point of some sort of paralysis, and I think that certainly can be me on any given day.
So I went way too in depth? I thought they wanted the hole by hole.
However, don't let perfectionism become an excuse for never getting started.
I do watch some of my losses, but it just makes me think, 'Well, you know, should have done this; could have done that.' But that's why I don't like watching it. It's a shoulda/coulda/woulda thing.
