Quotes About Decision

Sometimes you wonder, I mean really wonder. I know we make our own reality, and we always have a choice, but how much is preordained? Is there always a fork in the road, and are there two preordained paths that are equally preordained? There could be hundreds of paths where one could go this way or that way -- there's a chance, and it's very strange sometimes.

Turn left at Greenland....

Just what Khrushchev intended to do with his Cuban missiles is, even now, unclear: it was characteristic of him not to think things through.

After crossing the Rubicon—the real one—in 49

El poder, no obstante, abre la puerta a cometer grandes idioteces.[36]

Somewhat ironically, Clarke later committed suicide as a result of a 'violent and hopeless passion for a very beautiful lady of a rank superior to his own'. To decide the method he tossed a coin: heads he would hang himself, tails he would drown. The coin landed on its side in a mud patch, so he shot himself.

when faced with desperate patients, doctors often do not have the heart—or, more accurately, they have too much heart—to do nothing.

Consciousness, these experiments suggested, is merely a bystander observing a decision already taken, almost like watching ourselves on video.

Writing is selection. Just to start a piece of writing you have to choose one word and only one from more than a million in the language. Now keep going. What is your next word?

When I finished high school, I was 16, and in Argentina you have to choose a career right after high school. There is no such thing as a liberal arts education.

Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or because they didn't.

The essential difference between emotion and reason is that emotion leads to action while reason leads to conclusions.

I'm not emotional about investments. Investing is something where you have to be purely rational and not let emotion affect your decision making - just the facts.

There are times when you should be completely out of the market, for emotional as well as economic reasons.

I believe this choice is ethical, and what makes it ethical is it is a choice.

It is reason, and not passion, which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision.

There are no safeguards that can protect the emotional investor from himself.

The emotions aren't always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.

Who has the right to tell me that I don't deserve this choice?

Voting is as much an emotional act as it is an intellectual one.

You are 100% emotional in everything you think, feel and decide. You decide emotionally and justify logically.

When civilization stands at the edge of a cliff, a step forward doesn't make much sense.

One has the right to be wrong in a democracy

She finally said: 'I want to provide you with the opportunity to be free to make a choice of belonging with someone, but never to someone else'.