Quotes About Decision

Whenever a person is faced in life with a choice, his whole being trembles with the dilemma of what to do.

I smil'd to my self at the sight of this money, O drug! said I aloud, what art thou good for? Thou art not worth to me, no not the taking off of the ground, one of those knives is worth all this heap, I have no manner of use for thee, e'en remain where thou art, and go to the bottom as a creature whose life is not worth saving. However, upon second thoughts, I took it away...

My father, a wise and grave man, gave me serious and excellent counsel against what he foresaw was my design. 

seguir el camino de nuestra perdición por nuestra propia elección.

the just reflections of conscience oftentimes snatch a man, especially a man of sense, from the arms of a mistress, as it did him at last, though on another occasion.

As we all know from experience, when it comes to shaping our decisions and our actions, feeling counts every bit as much—and often more—than thought.

Choices made in keeping with this inner rudder, on the other hand, are energizing. They not only feel right but maximize the attention and energy available for pursuing them.

Instead of being swept away by that stream we can pause and see that these are just thoughts - and choose whether or not to act on them.

Such heuristics determine whether a flood of data offers up a "Eureka!" or we suffer from information overload. That decision (Got it! versus Too much information) emanates from a thin strip in the brain's prefrontal area, the dorsolateral circuits.

No podemos controlar lo que vamos a sentir, pero sí decidir qué hacemos a continuación.

While the world often confronts us with an unwieldy array of choices (How should you invest your retirement savings? Whom should you marry?), the emotional learning that life has given us (such as the memory of a disastrous investment or a painful breakup) sends signals that streamline the decision by eliminating some options and highlighting others at the outset.

If he's not gay and he hung out with you the whole time, he wanted to be. It's boyfriend or want to be boyfriend or I guess gay. Those are the choices.

You winked, took the change. I should have seen it, Ed, as a sign that you were unreliable. Instead, I saw it as a sign of charming, which is why I didn't break it off right then and there.

This was like going grocery shopping and quitting the peas.

Is it really possible to quit, and step out of a car that's taking you someplace terrible?

Neuroscientists have discovered that unproductivity and loss of drive can result from decision overload.

A person who has not made peace with his losses is likely to accept gambles that would be unacceptable to him otherwise.

I see now that the path I choose through that maze makes me what I am. I am not only a thing, but also a way of being—

Although we know the end of the maze holds death (and it is something I have not always known—not long ago the adolescent in me thought death could happen only to other people), I see now that the path I choose through that maze makes me what I am.

Before he could say any more or try to stop me, I was out of the lab, and I caught the elevator down and out of Beekman for the last time.

Charlie, you amaze me. In some ways you're so advanced, and yet when it comes to making a decision, you're still a child. I can't decide for you, Charlie. The answer can't be found in books—or be solved by bringing it to other people. Not unless you want to remain a child all your life. You've got to find the answer inside you—feel the right thing to do. Charlie, you've got to learn to trust yourself.

I'd rather live life with the consequences of my choice than live with the consequences of fear.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.