Quotes About Decisions

we go through life grumbling about what should be at the expense of accepting what is. Within that bubble of delusion, we grant ourselves an autonomy and superiority we have not earned. We imagine how much better the world would be if we had the power to make the decisions. We don't.

Fate is the hand of cards we've been dealt. Choice is how we play the hand.

There's an old saying that in order to be successful I have to first believe I am capable of it – before it even shows up. That without that inner belief I'll make small decisions without even knowing it that can make it harder to become successful. There's that hindsight thing again and from my perch, two and a half years later – I can see a lot of those little places.

in truth, the engaged culture lives and dies in the moment-to-moment decisions and behaviors of supervisors and managers. So it only stands to reason that engagement can be born anywhere inside the company.

You can gussy them up with all the pretty rationales you want, but most major life decisions are whims.

I didn't react visibly, because I'm used to clients making bad decisions, and I was getting a lot of practice at controlling my expression.

I stared straight ahead. If there was one thing good about this situation, it was reinforcing how great my decisions to (a) hack my governor module and (b) escape were. Being a SecUnit sucked. I couldn't wait to get back to my wild rogue rampage of hitching rides on bot-piloted transports and watching my serials.

I was not in control of this situation and I could see at least ten instances now where I'd made wrong decisions and being in control of the situation was really important because otherwise it was in control of me and that felt like a short step to being back in the company's control.

No such thing as late. Destiny picks its own time.

Anything that requires energy, like being in the outside world, having people in her space, dealing with conflict, and interacting with others, requires energy output and so is draining. She likes the familiar (since these situations burn less energy), needs to ease into new situations, and may not be able to think or make decisions around too much stimuli or too many people.

Moving state and behavior between classes is the very essence of refactoring. As the system develops, you find the need for new classes and the need to shuffle responsibilities around. A design decision that is reasonable and correct one week can become incorrect in another. That is not a problem; the only problem is not to do something about it.

Depuis le début de cette lettre, j'ai réfléchi à la violence. A la tienne, à la violence en général. Tu as réagi radicalement, entièrement, comme l'expression honnête de ce que tu es : un être capable de résister. Je te comprends mieux, d'autant plus que j'identifie cette violence en moi, par exemple, dans ma décision de m'isoler . Je ne frappe pas les gens, je les fais disparaitre

The most frequent cause of failures in business is not people who answered the right questions incorrectly, but people who answered the wrong questions correctly. I have seen many companies "incrementalize" themselves into a corner, through a series of small—what appeared optimal—decisions, often based on erroneous assumptions.

Each day we make dozens and dozens of small decisions. Each individual decision seems trivial and inconsequential. But together they add up to a habitual pattern that is either life-giving or life-quenching.

A wise woman gives the Lord Jesus Christ first place in her heart. Her feet follow the inclination of her heart, so she makes cautious, wise, godly decisions about her relationships with men.

My story will change, and so will yours. We'll just go on changing, making a new set of choices, then living them out. That's what life is anyway, just a long string of choices.

Fairness has its place but not in the big things.

We've got two lives -- one we're given and the other one we make.

The past cannot be changed, the future is still in your power

Love is the foundation from which your decisions about your life should be made.

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

I remember Mr. Bender's comment about us only being here for two weeks, too. It's true. How could Mother and Father have known? After I spent over a year in a coma, how could they have predicted exactly when I would wake up and then move to California precisely at that time? Was it only coincidence? Or did they decide when I would wake up? Why would they keep me in a coma for so long? Why would they steal a year and a half of my life? What kind of parents are they?

He nodded. "You're right. It's probably for the best." Bitterness rose in my throat. I hated things being for the best. They never really were. It was a phrase that sugarcoated the leftover crumbs of our options.