Quotes About Decision

The letter will tell you to write down ten things you want to happen, because that's the first step to getting what you want in life: deciding what that is. Some of those things will happen for you, some won't, and some will turn into things you don't want anymore" -Aunt Jenny

It is a criterion of love. In moments of decision, we are to try to make what seems to be the most loving, the most creative decision. We are not to play safe, to draw back out of fear. Love may well lead us into danger. It may lead us to die for our friend. In a day when we are taught to look for easy solutions, it is not always easy to hold onto that most difficult one of all, love.

No driven man hears unwanted counsel.

An act made in fear is not the same thing as an action taken for necessity.

What is a flaw but a human mistake, or an ignorance that sees without options?

The day you decide to do it is your lucky day

I'm not waiting until my hair turns white to become patient and wise. Nope, I'm dyeing my hair tonight.

The only reason my wife agreed to marry me is because Christian Bale wasn't around to propose to her.

The wisdom of crowds works when the crowd is choosing the price of an ox, when there's a single numeric average. But if it's a design or something that matters, the decision is made by committee, and that's crap. You want people and groups who are able to think thoughts before they share.

But to cast my life away just like that for nothing at all -- that I won't do.

Of women who choose not to have children, most are undermothered and fear they won't know how. Sometimes they fear they will "mess up" their kids like they feel they have been messed up. (Although let's not forget that there are other important reasons someone may choose not to become a parent.)

We ought to be moved to choose the good not simply through a cold and gritty decision driven by our intellect or our will, but also by our heart.

Wanting something more, and ready to take a risk, Elizebeth quit her job at the Indiana high school in the spring of 1916 and moved back in with her parents to think about what was next.

No is easier to do, yes is easier to say. No is no to one thing. Yes is no to a thousand things. No is a precision instrument, a surgeon's scalpel, a laser beam focused on one point. Yes is a blunt object, a club, a fisherman's net that catches everything indiscriminately. No is specific. Yes is general.

Most people should miss out on most things most of the time.

The future is a major abstraction, riddled with a million vibrating variables you can't control. The best information you'll ever have about a decision is at the moment of execution.

Questions bring options, decrees burn them.

Not doing something that isn't worth doing is a wonderful way to spend your time.

It was amazing that it could be done, but we had forgotten to ask whether it should be done.

Besides, the perfect time never arrives. You're always too young or old or busy or broke or something else. If you constantly fret about timing things perfectly, they'll never happen.

The owner actually tried the oil and chooses to carry it based on its taste. It's not about packaging, marketing, or price. It's about quality. He tried it and knew his store had to carry it. That's the approach you should take too.

you can brainstorm, you can argue, you can survey, but only shipping will tell you whether you're going to sink or swim.

People are creatures of habit. That's why they react to change in such a negative way. They're used to using something in a certain way and any change upsets the natural order of things. So they push back. They complain. They demand that you revert to the way things were. But that doesn't mean you should act. Sometimes you need to go ahead with a decision you believe in, even if it's unpopular at first.

borrowed an idea from academia: office hours. All subject-matter experts at Basecamp now publish office hours. For some that means an open afternoon every Tuesday. For others it might be one hour a day. It's up to each expert to decide their availability.