"Armpit's economics teacher once told the class about a donkey standing exactly halfway between two identical haystacks. Since it had no reason to choose one haystack over the other, it just stayed in the middle until it died of hunger."
-Small Steps (sequel to Holes)
1) This quote is important to me, because it explains how you need to make a decision; instead of indecision. The donkey died of hunger, because it didn't want to choose, which lead to it's death- though the decision wasn't complicated. The donkey just decided not to choose one.
2) This quotation is about indecision. The donkey had no reason to choose one haystack over the other one, since they were the same and he was the same distance from both haystacks. He didn't want to choose, and since he didn't choose one, he stayed there for the rest of his short life, not choosing one, with no food. Because of not deciding this simple decision, he died of hunger, because of one small simple choice he decided not to make.
3) I think this picture goes with the quotation, because it describes the donkey between two haystacks, not deciding which one to go to. The donkey didn't want to choose, and deciding not to choose lead to his death; so you need to make a decision or something much worse can happen. The choice was simple, so the donkey could have lived.