Quotes About Decision

My lack of initiative was the root cause of all my troubles - of my inability to want something before having thought about it, of my inability to commit myself, of my inability to decide in the only way one can decide: by deciding, not by thinking. I'm like Buridan's donkey, dying at the mathematical midpoint between the water of emotion and the hay of action; if I didn't think, I might still die, but it wouldn't be from thirst or hunger.

Being eternally at a point where two paths fork!

Temos, todos que vivemos, Uma vida que é vivida E outra vida que é pensada, E a única vida que temos É essa que é dividida Entre a verdadeira e a errada.

I have to choose what I detest – either dreaming, which my intelligence hates, or action, which my sensibility loathes; either action, for which I wasn't born, or dreaming, for which no one was born.

Amar es fastidioso, pero tal vez sea preferible a no amar.

Which of us turning to look back down the road along which there is no return, could say that we had walked that road as we should have?

I have to choose what I detest - either dreaming, which my intelligence hates, or action, which my sensibility loathes; either action, for which I wasn't born, or dreaming, for which no one was born. Detesting both, I choose neither; but since I must on occasion either dream or act, I mix the two things together.

Que farei eu com esta espada?

Tenho que escolher o que detesto — ou o sonho, que a minha inteligência odeia, ou a ação, que a minha sensibilidade repugna; ou a ação, para que não nasci, ou o sonho, para que ninguém nasceu. Resulta que, como detesto ambos, não escolho nenhum; mas, como hei-de, em certa ocasião, ou sonhar ou agir, misturo uma coisa com outra.

O diabo desta vida é que entre cem caminhos temos que escolher apenas um, e viver com a nostalgia dos outros noventa e nove.

A veces darle demasiadas vueltas a lo que uno va a hacer nos paraliza. Es como cuando echas a andar: si te pones a mirarte los pies y a decir «ahora, el derecho; luego, el izquierdo, etc.», lo más seguro es que pegues un tropezón o que acabes parándote.

La libertad no es una filosofía y ni siquiera es una idea: es un movimiento de la conciencia que nos lleva, en ciertos momentos, a pronunciar dos monosílabos: Sí o No.

Aunque no podamos elegir lo que nos pasa, podemos en cambio elegir lo que hacer frente a lo que nos pasa.

Ya sabes lo que es un «motivo» en el sentido que recibe la palabra en este contexto: es la razón que tienes o al menos crees tener para hacer algo

Libertad es decidir, pero también, no lo olvides, darte cuenta de que estás decidiendo.

I discovered that everything you do is in response to a request or a suggestion made to you by some other party either inside you or outside. Some of these suggestions are good and praiseworthy and some of them are undoubtedly delightful. But the majority of them are definitely bad and are pretty considerable sins as sins go.

No is a better word than Yes

free will does not mean one will, but many wills conflicting in one man. Freedom cannot be conceived simply.

You can do one thing or you can do another, kill a man or take a tire off his car, because sooner or later you're going to forget what it was you done and just be punished for it.

You might as well go one place as another, he said. That's all I know.

You can't just say NO, he said. You got to do NO. You got to show it. You got to show you mean it by doing it. You got to show you're not going to do one thing by doing another. You got to make an end of it. One way or another.

The grandmother decided that she would not mention that the house was in Tennessee.

Le meilleurde la vie se passe à dire: Il est trop tôt, puis Il est trop tard. The better part of life is spent saying: It's too early, and then It's too late.

I have always managed to combine my family life and my career, but there came a point when I had to choose between a career in America and my family. I chose my family.