Quotes About Decision

The era of procrastination is coming to a close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences,

Good politicians know when to move on, sooner or later.

It is much easier to settle a point than to act on it.

Sometimes in life we don't realize how one simple action one single mistake will affect our future. - Rukaj

The only action we have to take is to decide whether we are going to stay closed or open up, accept experience as it is or rationalize it to death. This is what Joseph Campbell meant when he said that what we seek is not the meaning of life but the "experience of being alive.

At the exact moment any decision seems to be being made, it's usually long after the real decision was actually made--like light we see emitted from stars.

You could pick your friends, but not your Presidents.

Giving up the opportunity to sell something does not hurt as much as taking the money out of your wallet to pay for it. Opportunity costs are vague and abstract when compared to handing over actual cash.

make an active decision

a nudge is any factor that significantly alters the behavior of Humans

people's choices are pervasively influenced by the design elements selected by choice architects.

The nudge provided by asking people what they intend to do can be accentuated by asking them when and how they plan to do it. This

It turns out that if you ask people, the day before the election, whether they intend to vote, you can increase the probability of their voting by as much as 25 percent!

Hint: always take the largest deductible you can. It will save you a lot of money over the long run.)

When your neighbor tells you that you can't lose money buying (fill in the blank here) that is probably a good sign that it is time to get out of that type of investment.

It is usually good to provide people with lots of options, but when the question is complicated, sensible choice architecture guides people in the right directions.

Choosers are human, so designers should make life as easy as possible.

People will be risk-averse for gains, but risk-seeking for losses

Often we can do more to facilitate good behavior by removing some small obstacle than by trying to shove people in a certain direction.

When people have a hard time predicting how their choices will end up affecting their lives, they have less to gain by numerous options and perhaps even by choosing for themselves. A nudge might be welcomed.

It is a poor head that cannot find plausible reason for doing what the heart wants to do.

It has always seemed to me that there is something big to be felt by a man who has made up his mind to leave the things he knows and go off to strange places. I felt the same for the rose cuttings I took from the garden down to the cemetery. But men are different from flowers for they are able to make up their own minds about things. And that should make the feeling bigger, I think.

Unless the health authorities say schools have to shut down, I don't see why we should keep her home. She's not sick.

What did it matter what he did? Life would be equally purposeless no matter what his decision was.