Decision Delay Quotes

The essence of liberalism is negotiation, a cautious half measure, in the hope that the definitive dispute, the decisive bloody battle, can be transformed into a parliamentary debate and permit the decision to be suspended forever in an everlasting discussion.

If we learned anything from the depression we will not allow ourselves to run around in new circles of futile discussion and debate, always postponing the day of decision.

He does not however postpone making decisions.

When you're having trouble making a decision you're making it too soon.

We need to talk about what we are going to do and see and decide. We'll have to wait and see.

Prudence does not mean failing to accept responsibilities and postponing decisions; it means being committed to making joint decisions after pondering responsibly the road to be taken.

A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.

I've learned one thing in politics. You don't take a decision until you have to.

Never make a big decision without sleeping on it.

I've got to that stage in my life where, difficult decisions I don't have to make, I push them into the future until such time I have to make them.

Ask yourself, "When does this decision have to be taken?" and having answered it, defer the decision until then, in order to give yourself maximum pondering time.

'Referring the matter to a committee' can be a device for diluting authority, diffusing responsibility and delaying decisions.

One of the difficulties of not knowing for so long whether we were doing a fifth season or not was that we weren't really allowed to go out shopping for work.