Quotes About Decision

So there had better be a good damned reason for [war], because even if it is good, it is still damned.

Dü?ünmenin alternatifi duygular de?il, dü?ünmemektir.

Madem tüm seçenekler saçma, o zaman gelin en asilini seçelim." - Flaubert

Better to stay on the boat, though, and fetch it about. Better to remain alive, and throw the lifebuoy. Surely!" Excerpt From: Michael Frayn. "Copenhagen

Instead of simply telling you what the science shows and then letting you make up your own mind, experts patronize the population by advocating what they think is practical rather than ideal. By making the decision for you, they undermine those willing to make even greater changes for optimal health.

Note that to break a bad habit or create a new one, we have to select a new action (eat an apple) rather than just give up an existing behavior (don't eat potato chips).3798 To activate the habit-forming mechanism, you likely need a new alternative response, rather than a nonresponse.

A lot of what people called courage was only undifferentiated energy cut loose by the intensity of the moment, mind loss that sent the actor on an incredible run; if he survived it he had the chance later to decide whether he'd really been brave or just overcome with life, even ecstasy.

But we got up there and decided to stick to this mix of power chords and funk and that's where it really started for us. In having the courage to take that decision. To take a gamble not just with our music but our lives.

Going public was a difficult decision, and I had misgivings. My subjective experience was now an objective fact in the wider world. It didn't belong to just me anymore - though I quickly learned that it hadn't belonged to just me in the first place. More than a million Americans and their families were going through the same thing; some openly, some in secret due to concerns of being misunderstood and marginalized.

Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool, or you go out in the ocean.

In a probabilistic environment, you are better served by focusing on the process by which you make a decision than on the outcome

Once I made a decision, I never thought about it again.

Donald checked the box beside Venezuela on his list and kept scrolling down.

Like any man who has two masters with opposing interests, he was torn between them.

He kept the gun in his lap as he drove, and he prayed. It was the strangest prayer he'd ever offered. He asked for strength to do the wrong thing, and then forgiveness for doing it.

A good managerial record is more a function of which boat you get into rather than how effectively you row"1 Warren Buffett

By the middle of the summer, the team was even bearing his name. An early name-the-team contest had resulted in the club announcing, in the spring of 1946, that it would be known as the Cleveland Panthers. But when the owner of a failed minor league franchise of the '30s claimed rights to the name, Brown decided to ditch it.

On the metro home that night, I struggled with a dilemma that would haunt me for decades. Was I an activist or an academic?

Putin clearly had signaled that engagement with us was not in his portfolio. Yet we understood from that session that he remained the primary decision maker in Russia.

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them." ? Denis Waitley

They were often the first students in their family to go to college and the very idea of higher education was still foreign to them. They had to make a conscious and often difficult decision to come to college.

If it feels like you're choosing between the lesser of two evils, don't. There is always a higher choice.

During our lives all of us will experience opportunities for change which involve risk. These occasions may come at inconvenient times. We may not act upon them, but the challenge is there for us. The purpose of reincarnation is the exercise of free will. Without this ability, we would be impotent creatures indeed.

Love without freewill is semantics holding no intrinsic value.