Quotes About Decision

Maybe that was the answer I needed, the one route back. So simple. To decide to love the age.

You're saying maybe you're taking something that has the side effect of impairing memory." "Either I'm taking something and I don't remember or I'm not taking something and I don't remember. My life is either/or. Either I chew regular gum or I chew sugarless gum. Either I chew gum or I smoke. Either I smoke or I gain weight. Either I gain weight or I run up the stadium steps.

There is a piece of Chinese wisdom," she said. "To know and not to act is not to know.

She cleaned it up now. She didn't wait for later. There was something in the moment that she needed to keep.

To know and not to act is not to know

Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.

To love is just a choice. We choose love, or we choose fear; we cannot serve two masters.

Of course we did everything right, insofar as we were able to imagine what right was.

Well, what shall I do next? What is the next thing demanded of me by history?

The Shark and the Flipper need to have the ability to recognize the signs, interpret them correctly, and then act without hesitation.

Decide early on if it's a short- or long-term play. Speculators can make money by buying in new condo developments very early and then flipping the units at the first opportunity for a quick profit.

First of all, you don't necessarily need the best location. What you need is the best deal.

point is that the real money isn't made in real estate by spending the top dollar to buy the best location. You can get killed doing that, just as you can get killed buying a bad location, even for a low price. What you should never do is pay too much, even if that means walking away from a very good site. Which is all a more sophisticated way of looking at location.

I can't do it. It would be like, say, trying to fall in love with somebody, or trying to convince yourself that your favorite food is pancakes. You don't decide those things, they just happen to you. If God is real, He needs to happen to me.

The inciting incident is how you get (characters) to do something. It's the doorway through which they can't return, you know. The story takes care of the rest.

And once you know what it takes to live a better story, you don't have a choice. Not living a better story would be like deciding to die, deciding to walk around numb until you die, and it's not natural to want to die.

Simply put, we must show people the cost of not doing business with us.

And once you know what it takes to live a better story, you don't have a choice. Not living a better story would be like deciding to die, deciding to walk around numb until you die, and it's not natural to want to die.

You're assuming that love is a feeling. It isn't. It can involve feelings, but often it doesn't. Love acts out of faith, which rarely involves feelings. Love is action; it's deciding something is true and living out of that belief.

To know there is a better story for your life and to choose something other is like choosing to die.

the human heart uses the tools of reality to create elements of story, and the human heart responds to climax in the structure of story, this means that climax, or point of decision, could very well be something that exists in the universe.

The truth is, if what we choose to do with our lives won't make a story meaningful, it won't make a life meaningful either.

The repentance we are called to is about choosing one audience over another.

At the curiosity stage we are really only making two large piles: keep and discard.