Quotes About Decision

This physics constrains all projects to obey an unassailable trade-off called the Iron Cross of project management. Good, fast, cheap, done: Pick any three you like. You can't have the fourth.

You must understand that when you marry a framework to your application, you will be stuck with that framework for the rest of the life cycle of that application. For better or for worse, in sickness and in health, for richer, for poorer, forsaking all others, you will be using that framework. This is not a commitment to be entered into lightly.

Mrs Frisby could not bear to watch; and yet, even more, she could not bear not to watch. She

Where to Begin?" Printed in Stuttgart in March 1902, under the title What Is to Be Done? Burning Questions of Our Movement,

In troubled times the last thing you want to do is to stick your money into a film. It's such a gamble.

Part of waging war is knowing when you're outgunned.

When you reach the point at which even the most trivial acts are punishable by the death of the species, then obviously, obviously, you're at a critical juncture, a different kind of point of no return.

Whistleblowers get fired and shot or crack up. You have to decide what you want to do. Do you want a career, or do you want to be an advocate? And where I've been an advocate, I do it not in my backyard. If I'm going to fight, I don't do it in the backyard. In other words, I can get more done by not doing it in the backyard. I can train my students in the right way to do things.

So after that I had a new rule. If I'm hired by the plant engineer, I only go over his head if I'm in project failure mode. If the project is going to fail, then I'll go over his head. But as long as the project is going to come out, I never go over his head. Now, that's a rule I still follow today.

Siempre hay momentos en que el lugar del comandante no es la retaguardia con su estado mayor sino la vanguardia con sus tropas.

Hesitation puts obstacles in your path, boldness eliminates them.

What was leadership, after all, but the blind choice of one route over another and the confident pretense that the decision was based on reason?

Politics is a country idiot capable of concentrating on only one thing at a time.

The line between accident and suicide isn't always clearly defined. You could kill yourself without really making up your mind.

Some men […] choose to seek greatness, while others are forced to it. It is always better to choose than to be forced. A man who is forced is never completely his own master. He must dance on the strings of those who forced him.

By the way, I saved Moiraine. Chew on that as you try to decide which of the two of us is winning. -Mat

It is every man's right to choose when to Sheathe the Sword. --- Ingtar Shinowa ---

Should and would build no bridges. -Lini

Does it make you brave to stick your hand in a bear's mouth? Would you do it again just because you didn't die?

Two hands. One to destroy, the other to save. Which had he lost?

If you ask the lion to protect from from wolves, you have only chosen to end in one belly instead of another.

Victory settles a lot of arguments in most men's heads.

Kill a man who needs killing, and sometimes others pay for it. The question is, was it worth doing it anyway? There's always a balance, you know. Good and evil. Light and Shadow. We would not be human if there wasn't a balance.

Rand, maybe that's the answer they give to everybody. Those snake people, I mean. Got to Rhuidean. Maybe we don't have to be here at all.' He did not believe it, but with that fog staring him in the face. ... Rand turned his head to look at him, not speaking. Finally he said, 'They never mentioned Rhuidean to me, Mat.' 'Oh, burn me,' he muttered.