Quotes About Decisions

You'd leave the farm? I asked. He nodded. You'd leave school?

Emotion and instinct were the basis of all our decisions, our actions, everything we valued, the way we saw the world. Reason and rationality were a thin coat of paint on a ragged surface.

The idea of our own rationality...was convincing to us only because we so wished to be convinced. To any impartial observer, could such a thing exist, the sham was patent. Emotion and instinct were the basis of all our decisions, our actions, everything we valued, the way we saw the world. Reason and rationality were a thin coat of paint on a ragged surface.

We have complete choice as individuals: the only decisions we can take are our own. And yet so many species use the state of being an individual as an excuse for inaction, helplessness and irresponsibility.No situation is so overwhelming that action is pointless. Targassat of Surang.

She had to start making decisions rather than having life make decisions for her.

But it is the actions of a moment that often have the most permanent of consequences.

History is all about 'what ifs

On the outside of the bedroom door there was a plaque that said Valerie . On the way up, Jackson noticed that other bedrooms also had names - Eleanor, Lucy, Anna, Charlotte .Jackson wondered how you decided on a name for a room. Or a doll. Or a child, for that matter. The naming of dogs seemed even more perplexing.

How can a man marry wisely in his twenties? The girl he's going to wind up wanting hasn't even been born.

It's not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions.

To say that a man is a reasoning animal is a very different thing than to say that most of man's decisions are based on his rational process. That I don't believe at all.

Egoistical opinion that a man is the king of nature was created by the man himself, so he can justify his wrong decisions.

No happy man bases his decisions on fear.

Between eigtheen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

One of the odd things about middle age, he concluded, was the strange decisions a man discovers he's made by not really making them, like allowing friends to drift away through simple neglect.

As a young man, you get to a point in your life where you feel like you have grown up and have to make decisions and not having that father figure in your life to guide you to making those decisions.

[There will be movement toward] behavioral economics... [which] involves study of those aspects of men's images, or cognitive and affective structures that are more relevant to economic decisions.

Trees on a riverbank, a woman in another man's house, and kings without counselors go without doubt to swift destruction.

You can measure a man's worth by the breed of person he throws out of his office.

Least of all shall we preserve democracy or foster its growth if all the power and most of the important decisions rest with an organization far too big for the common man to survey or comprehend.

We shouldn't have a bunch of politicians, a majority of whom are men, making health care decisions on behalf of women.

Sadly, the timing's never been right. There have been men who would have married me but I didn't feel the same, and vice versa.

Isn't it odd how the little things can change a man's entire life?

The whole universe sat there, open to the man who could make the right decisions.