Quotes About Decisions

good decisions come from experience. experience comes from making bad decisions.

ethics is not about platitudes, let alone tautologies, logic or mathematics, but about difficult choices - dilemmas.

This book does not agree with this view. It cannot be assumed that efficient asset allocation will result if investment decisions are made by the investing equivalent of kelp and plankton of the marine food chain—uneducated passive reactors whose goal in investing is to outperform a market consistently.

One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right when the head is totally wrong

These are the times for real choices and not false ones. We are at the moment when our lives must be placed on the line if our nation is to survive its own folly. Every man of humane convictions must decide on the protest that best suits his convictions, but we must all protest.

We can only do what we can live with.

There were certain moments upon which the whole of the future course of one's life might turn. And almost inevitably they popped out at one without any warning at all, leaving one with no time to consider or engage in a reasoned debate with oneself. One had to make a split second decision, and much depended upon it. Perhaps everything.

Vienas svarbiausi? dalyk? - neleisti, kad žmogaus asmenin?s ypatyb?s tur?t? poveikio tavo sprendimams.

I learned a long time ago, though—you can't live other people's lives. We have to make our own decisions even if we're wrong.

A character is defined by the kinds of challenges he cannot walk away from. And by those he has walked away from that cause him remorse.

We must not forget that the issues of Eternity are settled in Time.

Do you make all your life's big decisions based on mobile phone videos?

Thousands of years of ideological, philosophical, and practical decisions were made. They altered the surface of the earth, the coordinates of our souls. For every one of those decisions, maybe there's another decision that could have been made, should have been made.

Block has a list of questions that she aims to cover with sick patients in the time before decisions have to be made: What do they understand their prognosis to be, what are their concerns about what lies ahead, what kinds of trade-offs are they willing to make, how do they want to spend their time if their health worsens, who do they want to make decisions if they can't? A decade

What were her biggest fears and concerns? What goals were most important to her? What trade-offs was she willing to make, and what ones was she not? Not everyone is able to answer such questions

need to understand how much you're willing to go through to have a shot at being alive and what level of being alive is tolerable to you.

We want progress in medicine to be clear and unequivocal, but of course it rarely is. Every new treatment has gaping unknowns - for both patients and society - and it can be hard to decide what do do about them.

Yet—and this is the painful paradox—we have decided that they should be the ones who largely define how we live in our waning days.

The choices don't stop, however. Life is choices, and they are relentless. No sooner have you made a choice than another is upon you.

THE CHOICES DON'T stop, however. Life is choices, and they are relentless. No sooner have you made one choice than another is upon you.

Precisely when and how many such procedures would be necessary over the years they could not say.

that many decisions made by physicians appear to be arbitrary—highly variable, with no obvious explanation.

Our duties depend on our level of training, but we're never entirely on our own: there's always an attending, who oversees our decisions.

Home is the one place where your own priorities hold sway. At home, you decide how you spend your time, how you share your space, and how you manage your possessions.