Quotes About Decisions

We are a sum of our choices. We are not our single choices.

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

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

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

While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster.

a world where a sparrow's fate and that of a man can be decided in the blink of a cat's eye, such is the true measure of time.

You can't sum it up, my mother says as we are driving and the electronic voice repeats, Turn Left onto Wildwood Canyon Road, so I turn left, happy for the mundane instructions. Let us robot at once. Tell me where to go. Tell me how to get there. She means a life, of course. You cannot sum it up.

Overall, on average, happier people earn more money, get higher performance ratings, make better decisions, negotiate sweeter deals, and contribute more to their organizations. Happiness alone accounts for about 10 percent of the variation between employees and job performance.

There will be times when that will be the obvious and right thing to do. All I want to point out is that if you decide not to give equally, for whatever reason, that's all right too. The children who fail to receive won't go under. Your understanding and acceptance of their disappointment will help them to deal with life's inequities.

All we are given is possibilities— to make ourselves one thing or another.

One of the benefits the authors point out of discussing logical consequences with children rather than handing out arbitrary punishments is that the practice gives THEM the language to discuss One of the benefits the authors point out of discussing logical consequences with children rather than handing out arbitrary punishments is that the practice gives THEM the language to discuss seting boundaries and making decisions, even in conflicts with their friends.

The secret of the miracle of life will never reveal itself to the pale theoretician. He will always see amiss the mighty formative force of existence that he himself most sorely lacks, namely: willpower, boldness in making and carrying out decisions. Speech in the Berlin Zeughaus, Heroes' Memorial Day March 10, 1940

I had a couple rough patches early in my career. I think I might have made some bad choices here and there.

The choices that we make through our lives, the people who intersect us on our path kind of change what our fated destiny is. So some of us are lucky enough for the choices that we make to keep us on our path.

I don't really have control over my path - only the Lord does - but I do have control over my decisions.

I have come to an odd belief, which is that we don't make decisions so much as the decisions make us. The goal of a decision isn't just to find the path forward, but to become someone entirely different than who we might have been as a function of the path we take.

But the path you end up on means that you have to close a lot of doors, too.

We can choose a path that leads us into trouble. It all comes down to our decisions at the end of the day.

Life's all about choices. Everyone's destination is the same; only the paths are different.

People go down bad paths and they make bad decisions, but it's always justified in their head.

Unelected bureaucrats in Washington should not have anything to do with the healthcare decisions made between a patient and their doctor.

You do something when you're 20, and you're still paying for it when you're 40.

We had a big controversy in the United States when there was a limited number of dialysis machines. In Seattle, they appointed what they called a 'God committee' to choose who should get it, and that committee was eventually abandoned. Society ended up paying the whole bill for dialysis instead of having people make those decisions.

As a cohort, millennials are unique in their social consciousness, and they make decisions based on that awareness. Keep them engaged at work by showcasing a culture of paying it forward and tying the day-to-day into the larger purpose of the organization.