Quotes About Decision

Acting out of obligation, form or tradition is deadly, because giving up one's ability to act out of free choice is equivalent to giving up life itself.

Mistakes, on the other hand, result from incorrect choices. Rather than blundering into them while we are distracted, we usually make mistakes because of insufficient knowledge, lack of experience or training, inadequate information (or inability to interpret available information properly), or applying the wrong set of rules or algorithms to a decision

all I could think about was how both sets of parents had needed to make their decision, on whether to medicate their child, in a scientific vacuum. (p. 35)

Every existentialist in good standing must own a gun, and every week the existentialist rulebook says that gun ought to be inserted barrel first into the mouth. Then you make a choice. Is life worth the trouble it takes to live it?

What next?" Pete asked. "It's up to you," the doctor replied. "If you're sure you want to go forward, there are more tests and the doctors taking care of Mr. Hightower need to be informed." "I'm sure. I've had plenty of time to think about

lasting love is something a person has to decide to experience. Lifelong monogamous devotion is just not natural -not for women even, and emphatically not for men. It requires what, for lack of a better term, we can call an act of will.

When we decide to do something, we decide on the basis of a feeling.

Søren Kierkegaard: «Atreverse es perderse un instante, no atreverse es perderse para siempre».

Se imaginaban nuevamente en un desmesurado salón de muros encristalados cuyo centro lo ocupaba una mesa redonda. Sus cuatro secretarios con papeles en las manos y las plumas tras de la oreja se acercaban a consultarle, mientras que en un rincón, con los sombreros en las manos, inclinadas las cabezas canosas, estaban los delegados de los obreros. Y Erdosain volviéndose hacia ellos les decía simplemente: «O mañana vuelven al trabajo o los fusilaremos».

Como dicen los gángsters, no es nada personal, Max. Por supuesto, en esa aseveración hay algo de verdad y algo de mentira. Siempre es algo personal. Hemos llegado indemnes a través de un túnel del tiempo porque es algo personal. Te he elegido a ti porque es algo personal

sobre todo si se tiene en cuenta que el futuro es un misterio y que uno nunca sabe a ciencia cierta en qué momento se tuerce el camino y hacia qué extraños lugares lo encaminan sus pasos.

Many a promising career has been wrecked by marrying the wrong sort of woman. The right sort of woman can distinguish between Creative Lassitude and plain shiftlessness.

If you don't hurry up and let life know what you want, life will damned soon show you what you'll get.

It doesn't matter, Cat. Really. I wouldn't have even entered the science fair this year if Mr. Fizer didn't require it." "But you knew that's the only thing his class was about - that's the whole point of it. WHy did you even take it in the first place?" Matt brought his lips against my ear. "Because I knew you'd be in there.

Amanda and I both paused to take in that bit of wisdom. And try to decide if it even was wisdom.

The two important things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavour is taking the first step, making the first decision.

Never do what you can't undo until you've considered well what you can't do once you've done it.

If you don't decide what you will do with the rest of your life, someone else will decide it for you.

Perhaps having the courage to find a better path is having the courage to risk making new mistakes.

So, with all the wide world to choose from, you didn't choose at all. You simply stopped wandering one day

Doing something stupid and reckless is not a better proof of your love than doing something measured and powerful.

I do not know whom I wish to win; until I do, I will let no player be eliminated.

None of us ever know what we are choosing when we choose life. If certainty is so important to you, than you should have chosen to be dead. That is a certain thing.

Some calls you cannot ignore, no matter how it may tear your heart.