Quotes About Decisions

Training your mind to be in the present moment is the #1 key to making healthier choices.

She often made choices based on her heart rather than her desire to get ahead. From what she'd figured out, opportunities went to the ruthless, and she could never seem to act in a way that put her best interests first. Not if it meant stepping on someone else.

you can only do what's right for yourself. You can't control anyone else.

When you only do what is expected of you, you never learn what you would've done had you chosen for yourself.

Freedom cannot simply mean doing whatever strikes you at the moment: that way you're a slave to any whim or passing fancy. Real freedom involves control over your life as a whole, learning to make plans and promises and decisions, to take responsibility for your actions' consequences.

With your family - with your whole life, really - you don't get to have a control group. You don't have any way of knowing how things would have turned out if you'd done something differently, made another choice, followed a different path.

You don't believe a woman should be allowed to make private decisions about her own health.

Macroeconomic policy can never be devoid of politics: it involves fundamental trade-offs and affects different groups differently.

No matter how love-sick a woman is, she shouldn't take the first pill that comes along.

If you want to have sustained joy, you have to not only make sure that you think right, but you also have to make decisions now that are going to guarantee some joy in the future.

Any attempt to explain that they are undecided, rather than declining, should be brushed aside with the explanation that although you need to plan now, you understand that they are not in a position to accept and you wouldn't dream of pushing them.

Faith, my dear son, doesn't keep us from doing stupid things.

Ah, now she knew what divorce really was. Sharing decisions with a person you would run down on the street.

Was die Menschen täglich ihre Entscheidungen nennen, ist nichts weiter als ein gut einstudiertes Spiel.

e Linda capì che ci sono decisioni importanti che la vita prende e basta. Senza nemmeno consultarti. L'unica libertà che resta è quella di opporsi, per essere responsabili almeno della propria infelicità.

What happens, the Stoics think, is that, being in an emotional state, she follows the reasons which go with that state: she seeks revenge because that is how angry people think. But there is no real division within Medea's self. She oscillates between different decisions as a whole; there is no inner battle of parts of her.

You happen to life Eloise...You've always made your own decisions, always been in control

I really wanted to stay in Indiana forever, but this is a business and you've got to respect the decisions that are made.

It is an individual sport and you don't get many opportunities to overturn dodgy decisions.

I just think, as women, we have to give ourselves room to be individuals. So when a woman makes a decision for herself, we as women shouldn't set those hardcore boundaries for another woman. Just like we don't want men setting hardcore boundaries for us.

I think that the best that government can do for you and I as individuals is to empower you and I to make decisions that only you and I should make.

For me, it's infinitely more interesting to read or watch a character making decisions they think are right, but the audience knows differently, and seeing that disconnect. The only way characters can grow and learn is by making the wrong decisions and then learning from them.

I always think about my dad. He's always in the back of my mind. That helps me make good decisions. It has an influence on my life in every decision and everything I do.

People feel that decisions about their jobs, the way their children are educated, how their church functions, and products they buy are made by someone and some place so distant that they can't find anybody to talk to that has any influence over them.