When you don't know what to do, get still. Get very still until you do know what to do.

About Phocylides

Phocylides (Greek: Φωκυλίδης ὁ Μιλήσιος), Greek gnomic poet of Miletus, contemporary of Theognis of Megara, was born about 560 BC.

More quotations tagged with “decisions”

If it doesn't feel right, don't do it. That's the lesson. That lesson alone, will save you a lot of grief. Even doubt means don't.

—Oprah Winfrey

Check your ego at the door and check your gut instead. Every right decision I have ever made has come from my gut. Every wrong decision I've made was the result of me not listening to the greater voice of myself

—Oprah Winfrey

A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.

—Lord Falkland

An executive is a person who always decides; sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.

The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.

—John H. Patterson

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