Quotes About Decision

The unchosen thing is what causes the trouble. If you don't do something with the unchosen, it will set up a minor infection somewhere in the unconscious and later take its revenge on you. Unlived life does not just "go away"...

The mystery is this: there is one right thing and only one right thing to do at every moment. We can either follow or resist the slender threads.

Everything in life is a matter of choice. There are only two things we have no choice about. We cannot avoid these two things no matter how hard we try. The first is that we must die. Death is an absolute certainty, and the second thing we have no choice about is that we must live until we die. Now understand this - everything else in your life that you think you have to do, or are forced to do, is a choice.

Don't be afraid to be wrong; be more afraid, not to do the right thing.

In investing, what is comfortable is rarely what is profitable.

It's just that smart people are prone to look into matters to see how they might go about buttering their toast. Then they butter their toast.

The idea of potential loss plays a large role in human decision making. In fact, people seem to be more motivated by the thought of losing something than by the thought of gaining something of equal value.

what is more accessible in mind becomes more probable in action,

We will use the actions of others to decide on proper behavior for ourselves, especially when we view those others as similar to ourselves.

The aim is to get someone to want to buy quickly, without thinking too much about it.

Knowing what I now know, if I could go back in time, would I make the same choice?

Once we have made a choice or taken a stand, we will encounter personal and interpersonal pressures to behave consistently with that commitment. Those pressures will cause us to respond in ways that justify our earlier decision.

In large measure, who we are with respect to any choice is where we are, attentionally, in the moment before the choice.

In this case, because we know that the things that are difficult to possess are typically better than those that are easy to possess, we can often use an item's availability to help us quickly and correctly decide on its quality.

Cuando tienes miedo no puedes pensar con claridad

the guiding factor in a decision is often not the one that counsels most wisely; it's one that has recently been brought to mind.

Social scientists have determined that we accept inner responsibility for a behavior when we think we have chosen to perform it in the absence of strong outside pressures.

Obviously, horse-race bettors are not alone in their willingness to believe in the correctness of a difficult choice, once made.

It seems that it was not the whole series of words, but the first one, "because," that made the difference.

foolish purchase decisions,

I needed to determine whether those reasons were genuine or mere justifications for my decision to stop there. So I asked myself the crucial question, "Knowing what I know about the real price of this gasoline, if I could go back in time, would I make the same choice again?" Concentrating on the first burst of impression I sensed, I received a clear and unqualified answer. I would have driven right past.

That's why it is so important to be alert to a sense of undue liking for a compliance practitioner. The recognition of that feeling can serve as our reminder to separate the dealer from the merits of the deal and to make our decision based on considerations related only to the latter.

for small donors to participate, but large donors continue to dominate.) Even before the Supreme Court's grotesque 2010 decision

Capitalism's role is to enlarge the economic pie. How the slices are divided and whether they are applied to private goods like personal computers or public goods like clean air is up to society to decide. This is the role we assign to democracy.