Quotes About Decisions

Avoid making irrevocable decisions while tired or hungry. N.B.: Circumstances can force your hand. So think ahead!

When there is no existential pressure for quick decisions, only prejudice asserts certitude.

A way of living better is to make the decisions you need to make based on what you can control. When you can.

Every leader who wants to make significant change needs a "resident son of a bitch" who can make hard decisions without regard to rank or personality.

I reset the alarm, let myself out, and went to my car. I dumped the yearbooks and files onto the passenger seat, but didn't drive away. I thought about the gun. Amy might have had second thoughts. She might have decided it was too loud or too smelly or just wasn't fun. Maybe having a gun around the house made her feel less safe, so she got rid of it. There were plenty of innocent reasons her gun was missing, but guesses weren't facts. I

To him, refugees were people at the end of the chain of events that had begun with decisions made by those at the top and the beginning of the chain.

It takes a lifetime to build a life. It only takes a second to ruin it.

The Road not Taken [...] I shall be telling this with a sigh somewhere ages and ages hence: two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less travelled by, and that has made all the difference...

Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back.

Most people are perpetually locked in the present. Their decisions are overly influenced by the most immediate event; they easily become emotional and ascribe greater significance to a problem than it should have in reality.

I'd rather judge a person on why they make the choices they do rather than the cold facts of what they choose.

When everything seems to impact everything and there's no easy answer, I ask myself: Will this decision take me closer or farther from you? And then it's so clear. Even if it doesn't make sense at the time.

what has mattered are the moments of exposure to every life, when habit is no longer enough, and choices have to be made. That's when everyone becomes a great man, for a moment; and the choices made in those moments, which come all too frequently, then combine to make history.

Most ignorance is by choice, you know, and so ignorance is very telling about what really matters to people.

Decisions are hard. Everyone has the halting problem.

Because words unsaid can change a course as surely as words said.

Zoey: Wait! Don't go yet. I have so many questions. Nyx: Life will reveal to you the choices you must make to answer them.

There was nothing politicians liked to do more than Monday morning quarterback decisions that they themselves wouldn't have the guts to make.

All your troubles are due to those 'ifs', declared the Wizard.

I have rules for life, but not for love. If I think too hard about a relationship, I'll talk myself out of it

Reason bases its decisions on evidence available to everyone, and allows people to disagree when evidence is lacking. Religion will never do that.

I believe that in this life, we are defined not by the station in life into which we are born, nor by our pedigree, race, or religion, but by the choices we make.

Where defining foreign policy as 'ethical' went wrong was that it implied that all decisions would be exclusive in every respect of any dealings with unethical regimes.

I have to make decisions that people are a little confused about, in a way, and I just express the appreciation, admiration and respect I have. I just try to be the best I can, but I'm human.