Quotes About Decision

einst ein braver Mann namens Gottfried Nickleby, der sich ziemlich spät noch in den Kopf gesetzt hatte zu heiraten. Da er aber weder jung noch begütert war und daher nicht auf die Hand einer vermögenden Dame rechnen durfte, so verehelichte

This may be premature. I have set it down too soon, perhaps. But let it stand.

No less a question than this: Whether he should allow himself to fall in love with Pet?

The speculative thinker makes Christianity into theology, instead of recognizing that a living relationship to Christ involves passion, struggle, decision, personal appropriation, and inner transformation.' (Moore's summary of Kierkegaard)

No plan can prevent a stupid person from doing the wrong thing in the wrong place at the wrong time--but a good plan should keep a concentration from forming.

Beyond the age of information, there is the age of choices.

Even the most thorough change happens once choice at a time

We delude ourselves when we suppose than the main impact of speech lies in the words (as opposed to the voice), just as we delude ourselves when we cite logical reasons, which are actually rationalizations or justifications, for our decisions.

As I mentioned earlier, the time to do is when you know what to do. When you don't know what to do, and act anyway, you are probably acting out of habit.

I am in the process of trying to decide whether I can make a substantive and productive contribution to the policy-making process. I was always there because I wanted to work on the pressing issues of the day - I'm interested in energy, I'm interested in the climate bill and technology policy.

God will never mislead or abandon you, no matter what decision you must make. He will direct you in the best path possible if you will follow Him. If that doesn't give you peace, I don't know what will!

Competency or capacity in relation to a particular decision is the ability to receive, weigh, process, and retain the relevant information. It also implies an ability to communicate the decision made once the information is processed. The words 'in relation to a particular decision' are crucial. Capacity is not an all-or-nothing thing. One might well have capacity for one decision but not for another.

If an advance decision has complied with any relevant formalities, was appropriately informed at the time it was made, applies to the relevant clinical circumstances, and if there is no indication that the patient might have decided differently were she to be able to make the decision himself as of now, the advance decision will be honoured, and quite right too. But there are many 'buts' here.

WebMD is like one of those choose your own adventure books where the result is always death.

Someone asked me the other day if I had my life to live over would I change anything. My answer was no, but then I thought about it and changed my mind... I would have eaten less cottage cheese and more ice cream.

Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, While meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray...

A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

Life: A compromise between Fate and Freewill.

If you wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. If you don't wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes.

If you had to decide between being given a million dollars and eating tacos, which would you choose — corn or flour?

We go all wrong, by too strenuous a resolution to go all right.

Five snoozes into your Monday alarm clock and you wonder if the $36 in your account will last the rest of your life if you quit.

Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons!

Night is the mother of Councels.