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In any decision for action, when you have to make up your mind what to do, there is always a 'should' involved, and this cannot be worked out from, 'If I do this, what will happen?' alone.

— Richard P. Feynman

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Most of us don't mind doing what we ought to do when it doesn't interfere with what we want to do, but it takes discipline and maturity to do what we ought to do whether we want to or not.

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.

— Tony Robbins

If you're feeling intransigently ambivalent, it might pay to formally accept what's already happening - that is, decide not to decide.

— Martha Beck

Remember, a real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

— Tony Robbins

Think 100 times before you take a decision, But once that decision is taken, stand by it as one man.

— Muhammad Ali Jinnah

So if I think of something in my head I don't have to do it. If I can't do I don't do it, I do something else.

— Marian McPartland

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

— Desiderius Erasmus

✗Opposing Perspectives

Never forget that the key to the situation lies in the will and not in the imagination.

— Evelyn Underhill

When you make the right decision, it doesn't really matter what anyone else thinks.

— Caroline Kennedy