Quotes About Decision

The problem is that many people treat morality as a list of rules. But in reality, every moral system rests on a worldview. In every decision we make, we are not just deciding what we want to do. We are expressing our view of the purpose of human life.

The problem is that many people treat morality as a list of rules. But in reality, every moral system rests on a worldview. In every decision we make, we are not just deciding what we want to do. We are expressing our view of the purpose of human life. In the words of theologian Stanley Hauerwas, a moral act "cannot be seen as just an isolated act, but involves fundamental options about the nature and significance of life itself.

Anger is "a movement generated by decision" that "can be eliminated by decision." What these Stoic-inspired teachers are trying to teach is control at that pivotal first moment of decision—the "assent to an evaluative impression." It's that assent to an impression of having been cheated in the case of these young kids, that gets the impulse of anger going.

it's good to know where you want to be, but sometimes you have to go in the opposite direction to get there.

I'd hope Dad could talk her out of going along on her daughter's honeymoon. Somebody had to.

No hay otro camino por el cual pueda pasar por eso camino en este.

Allie says: Are you trying to tell me there's literally no right choice here? The voice says: There's never been a right choice, honeybun. The whole idea that there are two things and you have to choose is the problem.

There's never been a right choice, honeybun. The whole idea that there are two things and you have to choose is the problem.

A dead end street is a good place to turn around.

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But it was all the same choice, every time. The choice between the one death and all the little ones.

I decided that Orion needed to die after the second time he saved my life.

The committee was divided, but it was divided 8–1, with the dissenter appointed by the Reagan White House.

So industry executives made a fateful decision, one that would later become the basis on which a federal judge would find the industry guilty of conspiracy to commit fraud—a massive and ongoing fraud to deceive the American public about the health effects of smoking.24 The decision was to hire a public relations firm to challenge the scientific evidence that smoking could kill you.

The most precious thing every human being has in this life is the freedom to choose how to live.

you will never catch up. Walk around feeling like a leaf know you could tumble at any second. Then decide what to do with your time. --The Art of Disappearing

He's nine. It's my job to protect him. He'll understand why when he's older." "Or else he'll blame you for it," my father suggests. "Don't make the mistake of choosing for him.

Second life lesson, kid: always know what you're getting yourself into.

I remember that on the day before you left, I told you that I wanted to change my way of life, and you asked me why I didn't resign from my company right away. This is no place for me to go into details, but I really do want another kind of life. But here, too, I seem incapable of doing anything. That I myself at times become tired of my own weakness is, I'm afraid, no consolation to you.

I have seen in the most significant of circumstances, that some little thing always decides great events.

There are times when a battle decides everything, and there are times when the most insignificant thing can decide the outcome of a battle

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.