Quotes About Decision

An elementary rule concerning contracts is that you let it wait. You faced a fait accompli, and you can't do a deal on a fait accompli. I was able to wait until you were in a position where you couldn't simply get up and leave. But when you enter negotiations without this option Ã¢â'¬â€ the option of getting up without signing Ã¢â'¬â€ then you are automatically in a weak position.

Im Grunde, erkannte sie, stimmt es gar nicht, dass man als Mensch freie Entscheidungen trifft. Wenn es um wichtige Dinge geht, dann wählt man nicht "frei", sondern man wählt die Option, die man für die bessere hält - und das Problem ist, dass man das meistens nicht weiß. Also entscheidet man eigentlich nicht, sondern man rät, und das mit mehr oder weniger Glück.

Now he had to decide--what was the right thing to do? Something that required courage. Something that was frightening, because the unknown was lying in wait on the other side.

Choose to choose. One of the great traps of life is being stuck. Stuck in a job you don't like, a relationship that has run its course, your level of healthiness or wealth are all things that you can change if you invoke the right and privilege to choose to choose. Trapping yourself in your own thoughts is a formula for failure and an unhappy life.

Each one of has a bridge to cross to get to the other side. Some choose to take it while others do not. That is the essence of life, choosing to choose. Andreas Simic

Pros and cons Ins and outs Good or bad Happy or sad Mad or glad The balancing act From the poem The Balancing Act by Andreas Simic

When General George Patton tried to convince Eisenhower to make a push to conquer the city first, Eisenhower blithely asked, 'Well, who would want it?

In literature as in love we are astonished at what is chosen by others.

Concentrate; put all your eggs in one basket, and watch that basket...

a clergyman I had come to think of as the Digital Divine, who lived nearby in Barnes, had decided to get rid of his enormous, and wonderful, collection of rare jazz records. He

And until you're sure there's a cage around a tiger, it's pretty dumb to dangle meat in front of it. Right?

I have no idea whether beginning with my accident was the best decision, as I've never written a book before. Truth be told, I started with the crash because I wanted to catch your interest and drag you into the story. You're still reading, so it seems to have worked.

Hell is a choice because salvation is available to anyone who seeks it.

As soon as a man has chosen a side in war, he's already picked the wrong one.

I believe that if you don not listen to your heart on this matter, you will regret it forever.

Before dismissing such men as 'mediocre, timid, and weak,' one might ask oneself how many of us would welcome such a war, especially without the knowledge of hindsight?

People who have no emotional stake in a decision can see what needs to be done sooner.

As compelling as it may be to try and convince our friends to stop investing in that 'bubble' real estate market, or get your parents to move overseas with you, they have to make the decision on their own.

To those who perceived marriage and child-raising as duties rather than as choices

He saw in that instant a life he could not conceive of opening before him, a hopeless abyss. Either way he was doomed: He did what was wrong, and condemned himself, or he did what was right, and remained a ghost.

The Weinberger Doctrine created a series of tests, in essence preconditions for any policy decision that might put American troops into harm's way.

Only influence there—prior to any actual decision to intervene—could prevent feckless civilians from committing the nation to wars or quasi-wars not to the military's own liking. In

The self-assigned role of elite institutions in presidential politics is not to decide who will win, but to assess eligibility to compete.

John Marshall has made his decision: now let him enforce it!