Quotes About Decisions

If you keep doing the same things, you will keep getting the same results. You are where you are right now financially as a sum total of the decisions you've made to this point.

The good thing about principles is that they make life easy. I have heard it said that when someone bases his life on principle, 99 percent of his decisions are already made.

Just because you can do something that may benefit yourself doesn't necessarily make it right to do so.

I feel a sense of anticipation of going into a situation where I will be forced to take action and make decisions. Since my actions and decisions can affect or endanger the lives of others, that anticipation takes on a sense of urgency. To me, that is excitement.

You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That's what natural history programmes should be for.

There are consequences for everything we do in life.

Há apenas duas coisas na vida que vocês têm que fazer. Vocês têm que morrer e fazer escolhas. Dessas não há como escapar.

Think of that hard before your emotions jump in and start loaning people money that you will never see again

Your time is not free, how you decide to use or not use your time will be paid at the end of your life

I don't think there is a right or wrong anymore. Only horrible and not-quite-so-horrible.

When decisions on nuclear power stations and runways are delayed and the government dilly-dallies, people think they aren't important.

Crucial decisions in business are taken as much for emotional reasons as for logical ones, perhaps even more so. The tabulators inspired a level of emotion in Flint and in other powerful American businessmen that did indeed make these people feel certain they were witnessing a momentous breakthrough in humankind's mastery of information.

the working majority that actually makes current decisions, and not even to the whole of the living population, but to those who came before us, who provided our traditions and our physical patrimony as nations, and to those who will come after us, and who will inherit what we leave behind. Decisions in the environmental arena often touch on this broader sense of public responsibility, and we cannot afford to lose it among the numbers.

when we want decisions more than we want disciples, we get tares instead of true converts and Ichabod, departed glory for the church.

When God is recognized for the infinitely holy being that He is, you don't stand around questioning His decisions.

Every state of life, every decision, includes some pain that must be accepted if you are to enter fully into those decisions, and into new life. "All symphonies remain unfinished," said Karl Rahner. There is no perfect decision, perfect outcome, or perfect life. Embracing imperfection helps us relax into reality. When we accept that all choices are conditional, limited, and imperfect, our lives become, paradoxically, more satisfying, joyful, and peaceful.

Good decisions mean a wholehearted yes to both the positives and negatives that come with any choice.

To be able to love and live in freedom means to be able to make godly decisions. To make godly decisions we have to surrender our egos and all the falsity and shame that goes with it.

We look on childhood and youth as those "times of life" rich with possibility only because there still seem to remain so many paths open to a successful outcome. Each year that passes, however, increases the competitive value of making strategically correct decisions. The errors of childhood can be more easily amended than those of adulthood.

Taxes cause the most bad business decisions.

Will our grandchildren enjoy the freedom and prosperity we enjoy, or will they ask us, "Where were you when freedom died?" The choices we make in the next few years—in our personal lives, families, churches, and politics—will determine the answer.

Choices have to be made…before we are left with none.

Uncertainty is a key aspect of human reasoning. Without uncertainty, we would never doubt ourselves or our decisions. We would be certain that we're right all the time. It's this certainty that can make an AI's ability to learn turn brittle over time. But if an AI is uncertain and capable of doubt, it can begin to judge itself, to question whether an action or decision will have the consequence it desires and test it more thoroughly.

Diversity and independence are important because the best collective decisions are the product of disagreement and contest, not consensus or compromise.