Quotes About Decision

Identity is such a crucial affair that one shouldn't rush into it

There is supercomputer somewhere in the Nevada desert whose sole function is to count the number of times that I have said the following, because it is unquantifiable by human minds at this point, but this time it's really true: I should have stayed home.

Yes is the brave ally of serenity; no is the scared accomplice of anxiety.

And so someone not even twenty years old was expected to decide what they wanted to do everyday for a lifetime four times as long as what they had lived up to that point.

We all often think about what's easy to think about, rather than what's right to think about.

I find myself thinking, "I'm not so sure this is a great idea." I find myself saying, "Great.

The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.

The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn...?

The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which bridge to burn

He had guessed right; they were headed to the airport. But why Olney, Illinois?

even a pawn must not be sacrificed to no purpose.

Investing entails risk, and risk means that you could lose money occasionally for reasons that are beyond your control. However, you can make sure to reduce the possibility of errors by controlling your decision making process.

He understood that during depressed markets, if you can get a decent average price at a bottom price range, it would make the selling part much easier, even if you misjudged the timing of the sales. To

when a publicly listed company decides to go private again, as Dell Computers did in 2013. Take this setback with decorum, receive your cash, keep it in your cash portfolio, and wait for the next opportunity. A proxy fight or even becoming a private investor in a new entity is not worth your work and time -- especially for individual investors. Listen

Don't follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise.

we cannot choose for our children whether they live or die. It is a devastating realization, but also liberating. I finally chose life for myself. I chose the perilous but essential path that allows me to accept that Nic will decide for himself how—and whether—he will live his life.

George had filled up his head with all the necessary bits and pieces for resolving a problem—all the individual trees—but then hit the forest and was overwhelmed. Finally deciding to accept failure, he let his mind get distracted and . . . plop. There it was: the answer.

In life, I regret the things I didn't do far more than the missteps I made along the way.

Wisdom is knowing what to do next. Virtue is doing it.

One of the most trying experiences an individual can go through is the period of doubt, of soul-searching, to determine whether to fight the battle or fly from it," Nixon wrote in Six Crises. "It is in such a period that almost unbearable tensions build up, tensions that can be relieved only by taking action, one way or the other. And significantly, it is this period of crisis conduct that separates the leaders from the followers.

For a former slave and then an orator and an editor whose political consciousness had awakened with the Mexican War and the Compromise of 1850, who had seen the fate of the slaves bandied about in one political crisis after another, and who had struggled to sustain hope in the face of the Dred Scott decision's egregious denials, a resolute stand by the North against secession and the Slave Power was hardly a sure thing.

Zoe had to do something or she would be roadkill.

carry him. That fateful afternoon the boy vowed that he would never ever

Most people already know what they are supposed to do, but they choose not to do it.