Quotes About Decisions

Every life contains many millions of decisions. Some big, some small.

One day, if you get into a position of power, tell people this: just because you can, it doesn't mean you should.

Her yaÅŸam milyonlarca seçim ihtiva eder. Kimi büyük, kimi küçük. Fakat bir karar?n yerine baÅŸka bir karar geçtiÄŸinde, bütün sonuçlar deÄŸiÅŸir. DönüÅŸü olmayan bir sapma gerçekleÅŸir ve bu da baÅŸka sapmalara yol açar.

You have as many lives as you have possibilities. There are lives where you make different choices. And those choices lead to different outcomes. If you had done just one thing differently, you would have a different life story

Each twig has travelled only one journey. But there are still other twigs. And there are also other todays. Other lives that would have been different if you'd taken different directions earlier in your life. This is a tree of life.

There are many different possible lives ahead of you.

The many-worlds interpretation of quantum physics suggests there are an infinite number of divergent parallel universes. Every moment of your life you enter a new universe. With every decision you make.

Every life contains many millions of decisions. Some big, some small. But every time one decision is taken over another, the outcomes differ. An irreversible variation occurs, which in turn leads to further variations . .

Cada vida está conformada por muchos millones de decisiones. Algunas importantes, otras banales. Cada vez que se elige una opción en lugar de otra, se produce un resultado diferente. Una variación irreversible, que a su vez conduce a otras variaciones.»

Between life and death there is a library,' she said. 'And within that library, the shelves go on for ever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be different if you had made other choices . . . Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance to undo your regrets?

You have as many lives as you have possibilities. There are lives where you make different choices. And those choices lead to different outcomes. If you had done just one thing differently, you would have a different life story. And they all exist in the Midnight Library. They are all as real as this life.

It is easy to mourn the lives we aren't living. Easy to wish we'd developed other talents, said yes to different offers.

We navigate life by making decisions that maximize pleasure and/ or minimize pain.

The time to start worrying about the consequences of our editorial decisions was before we raised a generation of people who get all of their information from television, and who believe that the solution to every problem is simple enough that you can find it before the 21 minutes of the sitcom are over. Or

Lack of recent information is responsible for more mistakes of judgment than erroneous reasoning.

I turn a lot of stuff down - big, big movies, the kind I wouldn't want to go to the cinema to see.

People do stupid things because they mistakenly believe those stupid things will make them happy.

Choices got you here, but if you don't like "here" all you need to do is start making different choices.

We build our lives one choice at a time.

Your essential purpose is to become the-best-version-of-yourself. Plant that one idea at the center of your life. Base every decision upon your essential purpose. Make every choice with your essential purpose in mind. Place this one idea at the center of your inner dialogue and you will very quickly understand why ideas change the world. Everything makes sense in relation to our essential purpose, especially relationships.

This stage involves clear choices and sacrifices that to anyone with a patriarchal focus may look like dropping out.

Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have the right to do and what is the right thing to do." Potter Stewart, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court

Except in such unusual circumstances, get in the habit of selling too soon. And when you've sold, don't torment yourself if the winning set continues without you. In all likelihood it won't continue long. If it does, console yourself by thinking of all the times when selling too soon preserved gains you would otherwise have lost.

There are some situations in human life, it is true, in which it may seem wiser to wait out bad times. But that is seldom a wise course where your money is concerned. If you let it get stuck in a bad venture, and if the problems last, you can go for years without having the use of that money. It's locked up when, instead, it should be out chasing gains for you in other, livelier ventures.