Decisiveness

The celebrated journalist, Heywood Broun once wrote:

It is better, I think, even to be wrong upon occasion than to be forever an “Inquiring Neutral”…Into every life must come a time to step left or right, forward or back. To insist on a programmless existence is to glorify the donkey stationed midway between two stacks of hay. As you may remember, he starved to death. He spent his life evaluating the two stacks of grain. And he preferred to die rather than to sacrifice his “Inquiring Neutrality.”