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Quotes About Decisions

Now imagine a life in which every day a person is presented with not two or even three but dozens of choices, and you can begin to grasp why the modern world has become, even with all its advantages, a neurosis-generating machine of the highest order.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
There are always two figures in a marriage, two votes, two conflicting sets of decisions, desires and limitations.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
There's plenty of room in this vehicle for all of us, so make yourself at home, but understand this: Creativity and I are the only ones who will be making any decisions along the way. I recognize and respect that you are part of this family, and so I will never exclude you from our activities, but still—your suggestions will never be followed. You're allowed to have a seat, and you're allowed to have a voice, but you are not allowed to have a vote.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
I don't want to be afraid of bright colors, or new sounds, or big love, or risky decisions, or strange experiences, or weird endeavors, or sudden changes, or even failure.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
En un mundo de posibilidades tan variadas, la indecision nos puede dejara paralizados
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
It is the prerogative of all humans to make ludicrous choices, to fall in love with the most unlikely of partners, and to set themselves up for the most predictable of calamities.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Your ego's job isn't to serve you. Its only job is to keep itself in power. And right now, your ego's scared to death cuz it's about to get downsized. You keep up this spiritual path, baby, and that bad boy's days are numbered. Pretty soon your ego will be out of work, and your heart'll be making all the decisions.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
make mistakes, you must account for them. There will be instances when you must cast aside your impulses and take a higher stance than another person—a person without honor—might take. Such instances may hurt, but that's why honor is a painful field.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Man kan måle sit værd på sin loyalitet over for sine valg, ikke på sine succeser eller fiaskoer.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime.
~ Elizabeth Kübler-Ross
Politicians who talk about purity usually end up deciding who is pure and who is not.
~ Elizabeth Kostova
What I've learned, Uncle, in a life you despise, is that everything we do has more than one consequence, and half those or more we never anticipate.
~ Elizabeth Moon
Think tanks support so-called experts who will offer an opinion on anything—if the price is right. The result is that the rich and powerful flourish, while everyone else is left further and further behind. The cumulative impact of decades of these decisions has been to hollow out America's middle class and to leave us, as a nation, weakened. The game is rigged. It is deliberately, persistently, and aggressively rigged to help the rich and powerful get richer and more powerful.
~ Elizabeth Warren
Doänt thou marry for munny, but goä wheer munny is!
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
More and more, the pressing human dilemma: how to walk a clean path between obscenities. Bernice
~ Ali Smith
boredom dulls your ability to make the right decisions. Boredom creeps up on you slowly, wraps its tendrils around you and tugs at you in such a subtle yet constant way, you'll do anything to escape it. You'll behave recklessly and stupidly.
~ Alison Gaylin
Mount Shady is a lovely town, but it's also homogenous and boring, and boredom dulls your ability to make the right decisions. Boredom creeps up on you slowly, wraps its tendrils around you and tugs at you in such a subtle yet constant way, you'll do anything to escape it. You'll behave recklessly and stupidly. You'll trust the wrong people, with disastrous results. Emily would still be alive if we'd stayed in New York.
~ Alison Gaylin
Puedes tomar decisiones mejores tomando decisiones no tan buenas y luego corrigiéndolas.
~ Alison Gopnik
Now you have more knowledge of yourself and the world; you are equipped to make choices, but there are none left to make.
~ Alison Lurie
He must have courage, not the physical courage required on a battlefield but the moral courage to make and carry out decisions that might directly counter to the wishes of his superiors. He must have great willpower. and, perhaps above all, he must have the gift of leadership.
~ Alistair MacLean
Decisions can be like car accidents, sudden and full of consequences.
~ Allison Glock
Your mom said I could plan the wedding. She doesn't care, and between you and me I'm so relieved. It was going to be really hard to manipulate her into letting me make all the decisions anyway. - Macey
~ Ally Carter
Life is a series of tiny choices.
~ Allyson Lewis