Quotes About Decision

People don't wind up in Montauk because they were just drifting through and stopped. People make a decision to come to Montauk. It's a peninsula. You are at the end of something.

Ask: is giving this choice to a user going to make the experience more interesting, valuable, or pleasurable? If the answer is no, leave it out.

What if we had walked a different path one day, would some small incident have nudged us elsewhere the way a pebble tossed into a brook might change the course a hundred miles downstream?

She'd just committed to doing something she'd sworn never to do again. She was going home. She was going where the devil lived.

If she hadn't wanted to marry him, she could have thought up a good dozen ways to break it to him besides running from the altar like a scalded cat.

The issue isn't, Am I good enough? No. The issue is, Do I not have any other choice? Will and desire don't matter. Ability doesn't matter. Need is the only thing that matters.

And saying yes to this version of her life would mean saying no to another version of her life.

I'm quitting the business today. I'm going to open up an appliance store, I've always really been into toasters. I'm giving it all up.

He didn't even have a chance . . . no, he had only one chance, and he gave it to me.

O pensemos, por ejemplo, en el referéndum de Grecia de julio de 2015, en el cual el electorado griego rechazó rotundamente las demandas de más austeridad de los acreedores extranjeros del país: el Banco Central Europeo, el Fondo Monetario Internacional y los otros gobiernos de la eurozona, encabezados por Alemania. Sean cuales sean los méritos económicos de la decisión, la voz del pueblo griego se hizo oír fuerte y clara: no lo vamos a aceptar más.

The story always starts with the character. In a way, there's no decision. If there's no character there's no story.

Courage, the writer Ambrose Redmoon said, "is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something is more important than fear.

At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do.

Seventy years of public controversy about "the decision to drop the bomb" have been almost entirely misdirected. It has proceeded on the false supposition that there was or had to be any such decision. There was no new decision to be made in the spring of 1945 about burning a city's worth of humans.

McGeorge Bundy wrote in Foreign Affairs, "In the real world of real political leaders—whether here or in the Soviet Union—a decision that would bring even one hydrogen bomb on one city of one's own country would be recognized as a catastrophic blunder; ten bombs on ten cities would be a disaster beyond human history;

This is precisely the explanation given to the president in Dr. Strangelove for his lack of ability to send a Stop order to the planes that have been launched by the mad base commander General Jack D. Ripper.

I asked, "How do you think that would work?" The major said, "If they didn't get any Execute message? Oh, I think they'd come back." Pause. "Most of them." The last three words didn't register with me right away because before they were out of his mouth, my head was exploding. I kept my face blank but a voice inside was screaming, "Think? You think they'd come back?!

When you have a deficiency of progesterone and an imbalance of hormones, it literally feels like the "decision part" of your brain has been taken away from you. Women describe feeling like they are watching themselves handle situations with anger and frustration, as if they were someone else.

As students of the silver screen recall, Bogart's admonition about future regret led Bergman to board the plane and fly away with her husband. Had she stayed with Bogey in Casablanca, she would probably have felt just fine. Not right away, perhaps, but soon, and for the rest of her life.

The fact that we often judge the pleasure of an experience by its ending can cause us to make some curious choices.

He had an impeccable sense of timing, knew when to wait and when to move, and declared the state even before it was ready, because he knew that another opportunity might never arise. Not

What you decide not to do is probably more important than what you decide to do.

When feeling is for thinking and thinking is for doing, regret is for making us better.

Foundation regrets sound like this: If only I'd done the work.