Quotes About Decisions

Men always have their reasons. But the fact is that they always wind up leaving.

Two of the hardest decisions in life: the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage to accept whatever you encounter.

diplomacy is also the art of postponing decisions until the problems resolve themselves.

Close some doors today. Not because of pride, incapacity, or arrogance, but simply because they lead you nowhere.

The outer self, that which you believe yourself to be. is nothing more than a limiting place, a stranger to the true self. This is why people have such a hard time listening to what their souls are telling them; they try to control the soul so that it does exactly as they have already decided - their wants. their hopes, their futures.

Supreme Court arguments and decisions are fascinating to a few of us and really pretty boring to most.

Simply making decisions, one after another, can be a form of art.

Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.

Don't make decisions out of fear. They never get yo anywhere you want to go.

Whatever we decide we don't want in life (whether it's dating, houses, neighborhoods, jobs, partners, or dogs), the fates usually intervene to open our eyes and prove us wrong.

women couldn't afford dead-end relationships after the age of twenty-eight, or they ran the risk of getting stuck in them for years

I kept telling myself it was just temporary, but one day temporary becomes your whole life. You wake up, and you're not twenty or twenty-seven anymore, you're thirty-eight and you've given up all your dreams. I don't want to do that again. That's why I came here. From now on, I want things to be different, and this was the first step. I want to make decisions, not just float along letting life happen to me. I want more than that.

The only time you have no opportunities is when you decide to stop taking them.

So few of our days contain actions that are irrevocable. Our lives are designed not to allow for anything irrevocable. The school part of our lives continues to be the school part for eighteen years, the work parts stay the work parts, and if we're lucky nothing disarranges them; the small inconsistencies get buried under talk, explanations, rescheduling. If everything couldn't continue as planned, no real plans could be made.

tienen el poder toman decisiones que crean pobreza. No lo hacen bien, no porque se equivoquen o por su ignorancia, sino a propósito.

Allowing people to make their own decisions via markets is the best way for a society to efficiently use its resources. When the state or a narrow elite controls all these resources instead, neither the right incentives will be created nor will there be an efficient allocation of the skills and talents of people.

Poor countries are poor because those who have power make choices that create poverty. They get it wrong not by mistake or ignorance but on purpose. To understand this, you have to go beyond economics and expert advice on the best thing to do and, instead, study how decisions actually get made, who gets to make them, and why those people decide to do what they do. This is the study of politics and political processes.

la libertad comienza cuando la gente se libera de la violencia, la intimidación y otros actos degradantes. Las personas deben ser capaces de adoptar libremente decisiones sobre su vida y tener los medios para llevarlas a cabo sin la amenaza de un castigo inaceptable o unas sanciones sociales draconianas.

The easy way is not always the right way.

Have it your own way," she said, "but I always thought detectives waited until they had every little detail fixed in—" "And then wonder why the suspect's had time to get to the farthest country that has no extradition treaty.

How many times in life can we make decisions that are important but will not hurt anyone? Are we obligated- maybe we are- to say yes to any choice when no one will be hurt? We use the word hurt when talking about things like this because when these things go wrong it can feel as if you were hit in the sternum by a huge animal that's run for miles just to strike you.

He had made a series of foolish decisions in his life. He had not planned well. He had not had courage when he needed it. His decisions had been short sighted. The decisions of his peers had been short sighted. These decisions had been foolish and expedient.

You can't organize what's incoming—you can only capture it and process it. Instead, you organize the actions you'll need to take based on the decisions you've made about what needs to be done.

In knowledge work . . . the task is not given; it has to be determined. 'What are the expected results from this work?' is . . . the key question in making knowledge workers productive. And it is a question that demands risky decisions. There is usually no right answer; there are choices instead. And results have to be clearly specified, if productivity is to be achieved.