Quotes About Decision

action is illusory. Like appointing a committee to study a problem. The more people on the committee, the more preconceptions applied to the problem.

famed intelligence had become a kind of shrewdness, relying mostly on past observations and past decisions rather than on what she saw in the immediate present.

And always, he fought the temptation to choose a clear, safe course, warning "That path leads ever down into stagnation.

The Guild navigators, gifted with limited prescience, had made the fatal decision: they'd chosen always the clear, safe course that leads ever downward into stagnation.

Abandonem a certeza! Esse é o comando mais profundo que a vida nos dá. É o que constitui a vida, no final das contas.

to be conscious by choice

Yes, it was a matter of opening doors, he thought. You opened one door and that let you into a place where there were other doors. You chose a door in this new place and examined what that revealed to you. There might be times when you were forced to try all of the doors but the more doors you opened, the more certain you became of which door to open next. Finally, a door would open into a place you recognized. Then you could say: Ahhhh, this explains everything.

The whole theory of warfare is calculated risk

On se bat quand il le faut, et pas lorsqu'on en a le cœur!

Princess-daughter," my father said, "I would that you'd been older when it came time for this man to choose a woman.

Early in my career...I had to choose between an honest arrogance and a hypercritical humility... I deliberately choose an honest arrogance, and I've never been sorry.

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change.

The devil you know is better than the devil you don't.

I remember what my uncle Pa Keating would say, there are times when you wouldn't know whether to shit or go blind.

I never enter any trade without correction

Correct thoughts will generate correct courses of action, which leads to favorable results. Wrong thoughts will lead to wrong courses of action, which brings about bad results.

In times of crisis, we must all decide again and again whom we love.

He was the man. He was the representative man. For the angels the testing had been individual; each angel who fell did so by his own decision.

Joe came down to join Chet Morton, who sat at the car's wheel. "Where to?" he asked.

Big stone house," Joe answered. "Slate roof. Stands back from the road a way. Nobody's been living there for some time, though." "You're observant," the banker commented. For a moment he was silent, as if trying to make a decision. He pulled nervously at his hatbrim. "Okay, boys," he said finally. "You want to be detectives. Take a look around there on your hike.

Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

There is a destination but no way there; what we refer to as way is hesitation.

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back.