Quotes About Decision

Things are always different than what they might be...If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.

The great tragedies of history occur not when right confronts wrong but when two rights confront each other.

Because complexity inhibits flexibility, early choices are especially crucial.

Because information is so accessible and communication instantaneous, there is a diminution of focus on its significance, or even on the definition of what is significant. This dynamic may encourage policymakers to wait for an issue to arise rather than anticipate it, and to regard moments of decision as a series of isolated events rather than part of a historical continuum. When this happens, manipulation of information replaces reflection as the principal policy tool.

Especially when ultimate decisions of peace and war are involved, a strategist must be aware that bluffs may be called and must take into account the impact on his future credibility of an empty threat.

To undertake a journey on a road never before traveled requires character and courage: character because the choice is not obvious; courage because the road will be lonely at first.

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

Something is wanting, and something must be done, or we shall be involved in all the horror of failure, and civil war without a prospect of its termination.

Voting is simply a way of determining which side is the stronger without putting it to the test of fighting

but the world is apt to make an erroneous estimate: ignorant of the dispositions which constitute our happiness or misery, they bring to an undistinguished scale the means of the one, as connected with power, wealth, or grandeur, and of the other with their contraries.  Philosophers and poets have often protested against this decision; but their arguments have been despised as declamatory, or ridiculed as romantic.

Informed consent' sounds so easy in principle – the surgeon explains the balance of risks and benefits, and the calm and rational patient decides what he or she wants – just like going to the supermarket and choosing from the vast array of toothbrushes on offer. The reality is very different.

If patients were thinking rationally they would ask their surgeon how many operations he or she has performed of the sort for which their consent is being sought, but in my experience this scarcely ever happens.

We can make our own choices. We get to choose how we react to all that happens to us.

It is often said that it is better to leave too early rather than too late, whether it is your professional career, a party, or life itself.

Se dice con frecuencia que más vale partir demasiado pronto que demasiado tarde, ya se trate de una carrera profesional, de una fiesta o de la vida misma.

He would have finished Goddam off then and there, but pity stayed his hand. 'It's a pity I've run out of bullets,' he thought.

I've said it before and I say it again: "A man's got to do what a brainless idiot's got to do.

Tez dan??man?n?z? seçerken çok dikkatli olun. Ö?renci olarak verece?iniz en önemli kararlardan biri budur.

God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only question is how.

I wouldn't undertake tew korrekt a mans sektarian views enny quicker than i would tell him which road tew take at a 4 corners, when i didn't know miself which waz the right one.

I'd rather end up wishing I hadn't than end up wishing I had.

The question of how things will settle down is the only important question...

What is reason given me for, if I am not to use it to avoid bringing unhappy beings into the world!

If in Doubt, don't do it