Quotes About Decisions

Always regret the things you did do, never the things you didn't.

Three central themes, then, run through the chapters of this book. The first is that regulating Black women's reproductive decisions had been a central aspect of racial oppression in America.

Sometimes there are no good decisions, only impossible ones. Which doesn't—necessarily—make those forced to make these decisions evil.

Her timing with men had been bad before. But never this bad.

I had been taught that going into battle with someone you loved—especially a subordinate—was a terrible idea, because it led to suboptimal decisions.

A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent.

There is a gigantic modern fallacy at work here. For of course people only think that they would have acted better in history because they know how history ended up. People in history didn't – and don't – have that luxury. They made good or bad choices in the times and places they were in, given the situations and shibboleths that they found themselves with.

We're all operating on borrowed time and borrowed money. We need to make a choice.

If a measurement matters at all, it is because it must have some conceivable effect on decisions and behaviour. If we can't identify a decision that could be affected by a proposed measurement and how it could change those decisions, then the measurement simply has no value

measure what matters, make better decisions.

The fact is that the preference for ignorance over even marginal reductions in ignorance is never the moral high ground. If decisions are made under a self-imposed state of higher uncertainty, policy makers (or even businesses like, say, airplane manufacturers) are betting on our lives with a higher chance of erroneous allocation of limited resources. In measurement, as in many other human endeavors, ignorance is not only wasteful but can also be dangerous.

Make decisions from the strong part of you, not the weak.

Podemos influir en unas cosas pero no en otras. Sin embargo, siempre tenemos la libertad de decidir quién queremos ser frente a los desafíos que la vida nos plantea.

Para vivir, el hombre debe actuar; para actuar, debe tomar decisiones; para tomar decisiones, debe definir un código de valores; para definir un código de valores, debe saber qué es y dónde está; esto es, debe conocer su propia naturaleza y la naturaleza del universo en el cual actúa.» Ludwig Wittgenstein

Spendin all the money I just worked my ass off for doing things that I wont regret.

The good ones go, if you wait too long. So you should go, before you stay too long.

The whole trend and quality of anyone's life is determined in the long run by the choices that are made.

I look back on my 20s. It's supposed to be the prime of your life, the most vital, the most beautiful. But you're making your critical decisions and sometimes your most critical mistakes.

You may be sorry that you spoke, sorry you stayed or went, sorry you won or lost, sorry so much was spent. But as you go through life, you'll find - you're never sorry you were kind.

You have to understand that in a person's life there are a few precious moments in which decisions, choices that you make now, will affect you for the rest of your life.

Because our choices are largely based on survival. But if life is eternal, life is not a question.

The way your life plays out depends on which dominoes you chose to push over and which ones you leave alone.

We all create the person we become by our choices as we go through life. In a real sense, by the time we are adults, we are the sum total of the choices we have made.

What, what am I to do with all of this life?