"There is no more miserable human being..." - Quote by William James
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
More by William James
“Lets take full advantage of this discovery”
“Out of time we cut 'days' and 'nights', 'summers' and 'winters.' We say what, each part of the sensible continuum is, and all these abstract whats are concepts. The intelletual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of a conceptual order for the persceptual order in which his experience originally comes.”
“Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.”
More on Indecision
“Opportunity never sneaks up on those who straddle the fence of indecision.”
“The worst of all human ailments: indecision.”
“My mind changes often ... People who have no mind can easily be steadfast and firm, but when a man is loaded down to the guards with it, as I am, every heavy sea of foreboding or inclination, maybe of indolence, shifts the cargo.”