Quotes About Decision

Algunas veces dejar lo que estás haciendo es la decisión adecuada, incluso si para entonces ya le has dedicado mucho esfuerzo. No insistas en malgastar un tiempo necesario en un trabajo que no lo es.

You don't make a great museum by putting all the art in the world into a single room. That's a warehouse. What makes a museum great is the stuff that's not on the walls. Someone says no. A curator is involved, making conscious decisions about what should stay and what should go. There's an editing process. There's a lot more stuff off the walls than on the walls. The best is a sub-sub-subset of all the possibilities.

You can't build on top of "We'll decide later," but you can build on top of "Done.

Sometimes you need to say, "We're going in a new direction because that's what makes sense today.

You rarely regret saying no. But you often wind up regretting saying yes.

If you constantly fret about timing things perfectly, they'll never happen.

Ben Saunders explicaba que durante su travesía en solitario por el Polo Norte (treinta y un maratones seguidos, setenta y dos días) la «gran decisión» se le presentaba como algo tan imponente que en su día a día se limitaba a decisiones del tipo: «Llegar a aquel trozo de hielo que está a unos metros».

You don't have to live with a decision forever. If you make a mistake, you can correct it later.

Sometimes abandoning what you're working on is the right move, even if you've already put in a lot of effort. Don't throw good time after bad work.

It's like a relationship: Breaking one up is hard to do, but staying in it just because you're too chicken to drop the ax is even worse. Deal with the brief discomfort of confrontation up front and avoid the long-term regret.

Deja de hacer conjeturas. Establece lo que vas a hacer esta semana, no este año. Determina cuál es tu siguiente máxima prioridad y acométela. Toma tus decisiones justo antes de hacer algo, y no con mucho tiempo de antelación.

Once ego and pride are on the line, you can't change your mind without looking bad.

Once ego and pride are on the line, you can't change your mind without looking bad. The desire to save face trumps the desire to make the right call.

Siempre que puedas sustituye «vamos a pensárnoslo» por «decidámoslo». Comprométete a tomar decisiones. No esperes a que llegue la solución perfecta. Decide y sigue avanzando.

right—premature hiring is the death of many companies.

That's enough, Leonis! I'm an honorable man—Kelio and Sina can play tomorrow, but they're out by the championship game. I'll let the two of you decide how to break it to them.

perfect information is a luxury you can rarely afford. All you can do is make the best decision with whatever imperfect information you do have.

The only guarantee in business is if you do nothing, nothing will happen. Also, as the school of hard knocks teaches, most good strategy is made by doing.

By the age of eleven it was . . . too late for the piano and the violin.

Hacer política consiste en ceder en lo accesorio para no ceder en lo esencial.

The Middleman: "So what's it going to be? Keep the secret or death?" Wendy Watson: "What do you think?" The Middleman: "Ma'am specificity is the soul of all good communication.

No vi razon para no decirle la verdad, y sin embargo tuve la sensacion de no hacerlo al hacerlo.

Sólo el primer paso cuesta. Quizá se podría decir eso de todo, o de la mayoría de los esfuerzos y de lo que se hace con desagrado o repugnancia o reservas, es muy poco lo que se acomete sin ninguna reserva, casi siempre hay algo que nos induce a no actuar y a no dar ese paso, a no salir de casa y no movernos, a no dirigirnos a nadie y a evitar que otros nos hablen, nos miren, nos digan.

y sin embargo nos va la vida y se nos va la vida en escoger y rechazar y seleccionar, en trazar una línea que separe esas cosas que son idénticas y haga de nuestra historia una historia única que recordemos y pueda contarse.