Quotes About Decision

If you always make the right decision, the safe decision, the one most people make, you will be the same as everyone else.

It's better to regret what you have done than what you haven't.

Everything we do we choose. So what is there to regret? You are the person you chose to be.

Risks are a measure of people. People who won't take them are trying to preserve what they have. People who do take them often end up having more. Some risks have a future, and some people call them wrong. But being right may be like walking backwards proving where you've been. Being wrong isn't in the future, or in the past. Being wrong isn't anywhere but being here. Best place to be, eh?

Any time you want die, ask me, she replied.

Only fools and criminals didn't know why they did things.

The need is not always the call.

If the supervisor running the meeting is a true leader who wants to hear several perspectives before making an informed decision, that person will want to hear from everyone— including you, the Christian Nice Girl.

Though we all hold our opinions dear, a hard fact of life is that all opinions are not created equal. Someone has to make a final call or else a church will flounder.

so, what happened next will have to go down in my book of Bad Decisions, planted firmly in the chapter entitled, I have no idea what I was thinking

This is her home now...of her own free will.

When in doubt - wash!

Companies often wonder what to outsource and what not to. One possible answer: outsource any job that's not directly exposed to competitive pressure, because outsourcing it will thereby expose it to competitive pressure. (I mean "outsource" in the sense of hiring another company to do it, not the more specific sense of hiring an overseas company.)

This is a good plan for life in general. If you have two choices, choose the harder. If you're trying to decide whether to go out running or sit home and watch TV, go running. Probably the reason this trick works so well is that when you have two choices and one is harder, the only reason you're even considering the other is laziness. You know in the back of your mind what's the right thing to do, and this trick merely forces you to acknowledge it.

Suppose you are a little, nimble guy being chased by a big, fat, bully. You open a door and find yourself in a staircase. Do you go up or down? I say up. The bully can probably run downstairs as fast as you can. Going upstairs his bulk will be more of a disadvantage. Running upstairs is hard for you but even harder for him.

When a student comes and asks, Should I become a mathematician? the answer should be no. If you have to ask, you shouldn't even ask.

The most important decision we make is whether we believe we live in a friendly or hostile universe" - Albert Einstein  [52]

They celebrated in a bar, and after half a dozen cocktails came to the mutual decision that it would be a blast to get married. So Lisa bought a couple of rings in a pawnshop and they did the deed in the hotel chapel, reading their vows in Klingon off an iPhone in front of a guy in golden robes and Spock ears.

Good investment selection means looking at several sources before you decide on a stock.

Facts are almost irrelevant to most people. We make decisions based on emotion and then justify them later with whatever facts we can scrounge up in our defense.

There are risks and costs to a program of action but they are far less than the long range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.

He insisted they were there to help. The reason they reached out to the boys was that they are young and open-minded. "It is the youth who will make the changes necessary to ensure human survival. You can decide to continue or end this experience. If you choose to continue, we will meet again." He walked them to the door and said goodbye.

That's a road. You can take it. Go that way. My bus is too big, but your car can do it.

The Peace Corps was innocent and inefficient, and we weren't under any pressure to join.