Quotes About Decision
Spontaneity and playing it by ear is fine for those who can afford it, but a boy from Eloe had to have a strategy
~ Tayari Jones
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When a woman tells you she is having your baby, your first mind is to get the hell out. It's like if the house is on fire. You don't think to escape, you just do It's human nature because you now she is asking you for your whole life. And a man don't have but one life.
~ Tayari Jones
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You could marry somebody else." I hardly got the words out. "It's legal." "When I want somebody else, I'll find somebody else," Big Roy said. "But if all I want is a meal, then I'll cook.
~ Tayari Jones
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It is a stern fact of history that no nation that rushed to the abyss ever turned back. Not ever, in the long history of the world. We are now on the edge of the abyss. Can we, for the first time in history, turn back? It is up to you. ~Taylor Caldwell
~ Taylor Caldwell
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We all choose how to look at life. -- A Prologue to Love
~ Taylor Caldwell
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Holding out until you get your price to sell an investment is playing a fool's game.
~ Taylor Larimore
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Experiments have determined that at the emotional level, we feel the pain of a $100 loss twice as much as we enjoy the benefit of a $100 gain. Consequently, many people once burned by a stock market loss vow to never invest in it again. As Mark Twain said, "A cat who sits on a hot stove will never sit on a hot stove again, but he will probably never sit on a cold one either.
~ Taylor Larimore
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Just being a human being, Ive realized that before every big problem you create for yourself, before every huge mess you have to clean up, there was a crucial moment where you couldve just said no.
~ Taylor Swift
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I go back to December, turn around and make it alright I go back to December, turn around and change my own mind I go back to December all the time.
~ Taylor Swift
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I don't think you should wait. I think you should speak now.
~ Taylor Swift
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Why leave when you can stay, why stay if you have to go
~ Taylor Swift
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Everybody has that point in their life where you hit a crossroads and you've had a bunch of bad days and there's different ways you can deal with it and the way I dealt with it was I just turned completely to music.
~ Taylor Swift
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There's a joke that I once heard a comedienne tell. It goes like this: "I'm not sure if I'm ready to have children. I asked a friend of mine who has children, 'Suppose I do have kids. What if when they grow up, they blame me for everything that's wrong with their lives?' She laughed and said, 'What do you mean, if?'
~ Ted Chiang
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The ray of light has to know where it will ultimately end up before it can choose the direction to begin moving in" "Fermat's principle sounds weird because it describes light's behavior in goal-oriented terms. It sounds like a commandment to a light beam: "Thou shalt minimize or maximize the time taken to reach thy destination.
~ Ted Chiang
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If you could see your whole life laid out in front of you, would you change things?
~ Ted Chiang
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I'm not sure if I'm ready to have children. I asked a friend of mine who has children, "Suppose I do have kids. What if when they grow up they blame me for everything that's wrong with their lives?" She laughed and said "What do you mean if?
~ Ted Chiang
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The years she spent raising Jax didn't just make him fun to talk to, didn't just provide him with hobbies and a sense of humor. They were what gave him all the attributes Exponential is looking for: fluency at navigating the real world, creativity at solving new problems, judgment you could entrust with an important decision. Every quality that made a person more valuable than a database was a product of experience
~ Ted Chiang
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Whatever he decides to do, he'll have to do it without Wendy; they've decided to file for divorce. The reasons are complicated, of course, but one thing is clear: raising a pair of digients is not what Wendy wants from life, and if Derek wants a partner in this endeavor, he'll have to find someone else.
~ Ted Chiang
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the ray of light has to know where it will ultimately end up before it can choose the direction to begin moving in.
~ Ted Chiang
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With my near-total recall and my ability to correlate, I can assess a situation immediately, and choose the best course of action for my purposes; I'm never indecisive. Only theoretical topics pose a challenge.
~ Ted Chiang
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There's a joke that I once heard a comedienne tell. It goes like this: "I'm not sure if I'm ready to have children. I asked a friend of mine who has children, 'Suppose I do have kids. What if when they grow up, they blame me for everything that's wrong with their lives?' She laughed and said, 'What do you mean, if?' " That's my favorite joke.
~ Ted Chiang
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I believe the primordial humans made a choice. They found themselves in a world full of possibilities but with no guidance as to what to do.
~ Ted Chiang
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This search is my purpose; not because you chose it for me, Lord, but because I chose it for myself.
~ Ted Chiang
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We shouldn't automatically accept that natural is better, nor should we automatically presume that we can improve on nature. It's up to us to decide which qualities we value, and what's the best way to achieve those.
~ Ted Chiang
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