A Quote by Morris L. Ernst

More errors arise from inhibited indecision than from impulsive behavior.

Morris L. Ernst

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Morris L. Ernst
August 23, 1888 - May 21, 1976

Indecision is fatal. It is better to make a wrong decision than build up a habit of indecision. If you're wallowing in indecision, you certainty can't act - and action is the basis of success

Marie Beynon Lyons Ray

More is lost by indecision than wrong decision. Indecision is the thief of opportunity. It will steal you blind.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The errors which arise from the absence of facts are far more numerous and more durable than those which result from unsound reasoning respecting true data.

Charles Babbage

The designer shouldn't think of a simple dichotomy between errors and correct behavior; rather, the entire interaction should be treated as a cooperative endeavor between person and machine, one in which misconceptions can arise on either side.

Donald A. Norman

While I have corrected agreed factual errors, I have not been inhibited from writing what I felt to be the truth about The Prince of Wales.

Jonathan Dimbleby

Errors of omission, lost opportunities, are generally more critical than errors of commission. Organizations fail or decline more frequently because of what they did not do than because of what they did.

Russell L. Ackoff

The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.

Warren Buffett

Most deadly errors arise from obsolete assumptions.

Frank Herbert

There are tons of things in your home and life that you don't use, need, or even particularly want. They just came into your life as impulsive flotsam and jetsam and never found a good exit. Whether you're aware of it or not, this clutter creates indecision and distractions.

Tim Ferriss

People are more impulsive and they get slightly less impulsive as they get older and the impulsiveness interacting with the depression is particularly devastating and lethal, potentially lethal.

Kay Redfield Jamison

I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision.

Alan Rickman

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

William James

I'm afraid I'm not sufficiently inhibited about the things that other women are inhibited about for me. They feel that you've given away trade secrets.

Mary McCarthy

The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

Thomas Huxley

When people get more frustrated by their indecision than by the situation that prompted it, clarity often follows.

Carolyn Hax

Zoocentrism is the primary fallacy of human sociobiology, for this view of human behavior rests on the argument that if the actions of "lower" animals with simple nervous systems arise as genetic products of natural selection, then human behavior should have a similar basis.

Stephen Jay Gould

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