Decisions, tradition

No decision is a decision. – Robin S. Sharma

Retort 1 

 

Not exactly. It's failure disguised as strategy.

 

Retort 2

 

Not exactly. It’s cowardice posturing as conviction.

 

However, the line has its own payoff, because the full quote apparently is: “Making no decision is a decision. To do nothing. And doing nothing always brings you to nowhere.”

 

 

Tradition is a guide and not a jailer. – W. Somerset Maughan

 

Retort 1

 

Tradition is a jailer that moonlights as a guide.

 

Retort 2

 

Tradition is a guide in the pay of the jailer.

 

Retort 3

 

Where tradition is concerned, the guide and jailer are Jekyll and Hyde.