Quotes About Decision

After having acknowledged that you choose to do a particular activity, get in touch with the intention behind your choice by completing the statement, I choose to … because I want ….

If you want to change anything about yourself, the best time to start is now. Ask yourself, "What am I willing to change now?" Just do that. That's more than enough. For now.

The most thankless decision I make is the one that prevents something bad from happening, because I can never prove that I prevented something even worse.

The most reliable predictor of what you will be doing five minutes from now is what you are doing now.

Why wouldn't you? You have a plan. A plan is a good thing. At that moment, you are functioning as a leader. But later on in the same day, with little to no awareness, you assume a different role. You become the follower, the person who has to execute the leader's wishes. As

We do not appreciate inertia's power over us. Given the choice, we prefer to do nothing

Every decision in the world is made by the person who has the power to make the decision. Make peace with that.

Sometimes the better part of valor—and common sense—is saying, "I'll pass.

Il coraggio a volte è una via obbligata.

La cuestion esta en decidirse en algo, alguna vez. The gist is in deciding on something, at some time.

Sometimes a psychic tells you something and it feels wrong and others may be right on the money. It's your choice about whom to trust, and giving that trust is something we do ourselves.

For a choice is always a choice among possible alternatives; and it is a rare agent for whom everything is possible. The special agony of this situation is that none of the possibilities is even harmless.

The next step after this is applying that state of being—that thin sliver of sliding into place that feels wrong and so right at the same time, that makes you question your sanity—to your green lights. Feel your way through them instead

Always remember there is more to be lost from standing still than there ever was from risking it all.

I believe that most of us cannot know what we would do, trapped in a situation that required such a seemingly no-win decision. But I do know that anyone wanting to recover from psychological trauma must face just this kind of dilemma, made yet more harrowing because her circumstance is not anything so rescuable as being locked in a house, but rather involves a solitary, unlockable confinement inside the limits of her own mind.

Right, so the only smart way out of this was to kill all of them. I was going to have to take the dumb way out of this.

Can I ask you a question?" I never know how to answer this. Should I go with my first impulse, which is always "no" or just give in to the inevitable?

But I couldn't ignore it. I mean, I guess I couldn't. Ignoring stuff is always an option, up until it kills you.

Iris: "Peri, you can't bomb the colony." Perihelion: "You are incorrect, Iris, I can bomb the colony.

Target Two's gray face went surprised, then furious. It was kind of funny. This was a point where if I was a human (ick) I might have laughed. I decided to go with my first inclination and kill the shit out of some ass-faced hostiles instead. I told the Targets, "Angry, then afraid, then dead. Is that the right order?

I was still disoriented, and having a moment where I wondered if hey, maybe all the humans were right for once and this was a terrible idea.

It was the logical choice, it was the obvious choice, and I would still rather peel my human skin off than do it. I was going to have to do it.

At thirty-seven hours since arrival, I sat up. I said, aloud, "That was stupid." Everything was clear, sharp. Note to self, never, ever jump into a gunship with a bot pilot and fight off a construct Attacker code again. You almost deleted yourself, Murderbot.

With rueful resignation, she added, "Stone said I should just take you, fight it out, and get it over with." That was typical. "He gives me lousy advice, too.