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Quotes About Decision

If "what is the size of the market?" is the first question your company asks itself, then you are taking the wrong road to success.
~ Al Ries
There is a longing for a return to a time without the need for choices, free of the regret at the inevitable loss that all choice (however wonderful) has entailed.
~ Alain de Botton
The more people you have to ask for permission, the more dangerous a project gets.
~ Alain de Botton
He feared that by leaving her he would ruin her life - so he stayed, and did just that.
~ Alain de Botton
I will despise whatever lies in the domain of Fortune, but if a choice is offered, I will choose the better half.
~ Alain de Botton
He asks her to marry him because it feels like an extremely dangerous thing to do: if the marriage were to fail, it would ruin both their lives.
~ Alain de Botton
The only problem with unrestricted choice, however, is that it tends not to lie so far from outright chaos.
~ Alain de Botton
Del resto i libri, come certo saprà, è raro che inducano ad agire. In genere confermano solo quello che, magari inconsapevolmente, si è già deciso di fare. Si ricorre ad un libro per avere conferma delle proprie convinzioni. In altri termini per chiudere un capitolo.
~ Alan Bennett
No, in the end what persuaded me was simply Ã¢â'¬Â¦ that he had asked me. My father would have made such a decision on his own and only informed my mother after the fact. That Jae-sun sought my opinion—my consent—meant more to me than I could say. And because of that, I could not gainsay him this job.
~ Alan Brennert
Beyond the light was that distant line of horizon she had glimpsed from on high—a line like a solitary prison bar, needing no intersection with other bars to keep her jailed. And she decided then and there that she would not stay here and be mocked; she would not.
~ Alan Brennert
Agony is not something that happens to you. To agonize is a choice.
~ Alan Cohen
All of life is a self-fulfilling prophecy. You get to decide which prophecy your self will fulfill.
~ Alan Cohen
This moment has nothing to do with the last one unless you choose the past to continue.
~ Alan Cohen
When you are clear on the purpose behind your act, you have the answer as to whether or not you should do it.
~ Alan Cohen
You can still have children. We'll buy out your contract. You'll get everything you deserve. We owe you.' She wavered. 'You're not going to take it back?
~ Alan Dean Foster
One downward cut, she saw. One quick, final strike, and she could kill him. The landing lights of a shuttle appeared in the distance, coming over the trees in her direction. She had to make a decision, now. Kill him, a voice inside her head said. It was amorphous, unidentifiable, raw. Pure vengeful emotion. So easy, she told herself. So quick.
~ Alan Dean Foster
One downward cut, she saw. One quick, final strike, and she could kill him. The landing lights of a shuttle appeared in the distance, coming over the trees in her direction. She had to make a decision, now. Kill him, a voice inside her head said. It was amorphous, unidentifiable, raw. Pure vengeful emotion. So easy, she told herself. So quick. She recoiled from it. From the dark side.
~ Alan Dean Foster
I never answer that question until after I've done it.
~ Alan Dean Foster
I know what I have to do, but I don't know if I have the strength to do it." Ren moved out onto the walkway toward Han. "Will you help me?" "Yes," Han told him. "Anything.
~ Alan Dean Foster
On the other hand, Andrea had decided last month, on the occasion of her twelfth birthday and for no discernible reason (at least, none that an adult could discern), that from then on her given name would be Fitzwinkle. And then
~ Alan Dean Foster
Usually a senile old fool knows when to retire. But sometimes he simply needs to be retired.
~ Alan Dean Foster
One of three things would occur when she thumbed it, she knew: They would lift off, the ship would blow up, or nothing at all would happen.
~ Alan Dean Foster
They had refused payment, their spying was an act of conscience. Sincere Christians, German Lutherans, they had watched with horror as the Nazis violated every precept sacred to them. .... They didn't care to be paid. They had prayed together for hours, they explained, down on their knees, trying to make this decision, but now it was made. The people who led Germany were evil, and they were obliged, by their faith, to act against them.
~ Alan Furst
You can live as a ghost, waiting for death to come, or you can dance.
~ Alan Gratz