“If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.” ~Neil Peart

“It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.” ~Roy Disney

“… the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.” ~T. S. Eliot

“Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.” ~Bertrand Russell

“Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I call the Ready-Aim-Aim-Aim Syndrome. You must be willing to fire.” ~T. Boone Pickens

“In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse. ”
~T. S. Eliot

“No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. ” ~Isaac Asimov

“There will be time, there will be time
To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet;
And time yet for a hundred indecisions,
And for a hundred visions and revisions,
Before the taking of toast and tea.”
~T. S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

“People don't ask for facts in making up their minds. They would rather have one good soul-satisfying emotion than a dozen facts.” ~Robert Keith Leavitt

“Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.” ~Samuel Johnson

“Better to steer by a lodestar than to drift across a meaningless sea.” ~Edward O. Wilson

“There are periods when the principles of experience need to be modified, when hope and trust and instinct claim a share with prudence in the guidance of affairs, when, in truth, to dare is the highest wisdom.” ~Ellery Channing

“Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.” ~Dr. Joyce Brothers

“The moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforseen incidents and meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius power and magic in it. Begin it now.” ~Goethe

“Whenever you're called on to make up your mind,
   and you're hampered by not having any,
the best way to solve the dilemma, you'll find,
   is simply spinning a penny.
No—not so that chance shall decide the affair
   while you're passively standing there moping;
but the moment the penny is up in the air,
   you'll suddenly know what you're hoping.” ~Piet Hein

“Be true to your beliefs to stay strong.” ~unknown

“You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” ~Eleanor Roosevelt

“When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to look like a nail.” ~A. Maslow



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