Quotes About Decisions

Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

It is our choices . . . that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.

It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

But then life is never neat, it is made up of doors and trapdoors. You move down baroque corridors, and even when you think you know which door to open, you still need to have the courage to choose.

Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.

So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

In most cases,our so-called limitations are nothing more than our own decision to limit ourselves.

Bloody Men Bloody men are like bloody buses— You wait for about a year— And as soon as one approaches your stop Two or three others appear. You look at them flashing their indicators, Offering you a ride. You're trying to read the destinations, You haven't much time to decide. If you make a mistake, there is no turning back. Jump off, and you'll stand there and gaze While the cars and taxis and lorries go by And the minutes, the hours, the days. Wendy Cope

My hope is that this book will help us all make those decisions with more facts than emotions, and more awareness than fear.

Eighty percent of global carbon emissions come from only 10 countries. Their leaders, along with the executives of the world's most powerful corporations, have disproportionate influence on the decisions that affect emissions

In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.

The decisions of our past are the architects of our present.

If Stu chews shoes, should Stu choose the shoes he chews?

You have only a limited amount of time in tournaments to make money before the blinds devour you, so put the whip to your genuinely good hands, and let them carry you home. Hand 5-14 Situation: A major tournament, an hour or so into play. You're in first position, and behind you is a random mix of loose and tight players. Your

We all want more information available when making health care decisions for ourselves and our families.

I think positive. I always think we're going to score. Two minutes is a lot of time if you have timeouts and you're throwing every down. You have to make the right decisions. I've always had great receivers, which helps. It's not just me doing it.

I've become convinced that our lives are shaped less by the mistakes we make than when we make them. There is less elasticity now. Less time to bounce back. And so I heed the urgent whisper and move with greater and greater deliberation.

We are tyrannized by our options.

used to plan endlessly, but it never made much difference. Everything happens in the actual writing, for me. Now I just live in a book for three years or so. The computer is always on. I make decisions. I revise decisions. The book falls apart. The book comes together in a different way. The new book falls apart. I hold my nerve. The book I start writing—the easy, confident, public book—always turns fraudulent, for me, and I realize that I have

Leadership is not about doing what's popular, it is about doing what's right

Why do teenagers make bad decisions?" he asks, not waiting for an answer "Because all the neurons are there, but they are not fully insulated. Until the whole circuit is insulated, that circuit, although capable, will not be instantly available to alter impulsive behavior as it's happening. Teens understand right and wrong, but it takes them time to figure it out.

files in the McNamara study offices, I had discovered that this assumption was mistaken. Every one of these crucial decisions was secretly associated with realistic internal pessimism, deliberately concealed from the public, just as in 1964–65.

Consistent happiness is about making the right decisions again and again over time, which builds the neural pathways of feeling good.