Quotes About Decision

Judgement does not come suddenly; the proceedings gradually merge into the judgement.

The longer one hesitates before the door, the more estranged one becomes.

Your will is free means: it was free when it wanted the desert, it is free since it can choose the path that leads to crossing the desert, it is free since it can choose the pace, but it is also unfree since you must go through the desert, unfree since every path in labyrinthine manner touches every foot of the desert's surface.

La comparación del pájaro en mano y ciento volando sólo se puede aplicar aquí muy relativamente. En la mano no tengo nada, volando está todo y sin embargo -así lo determinan las condiciones del combate y las necesidades de la vida- tengo que elegir la nada.

Yes, the wardrobe. It will probably be the object of our first and last fight. I'll say: 'Let's throw it out.' You'll say: 'It must stay.' I'll say: 'Choose between it and me.' You'll say: 'At once. Frank and Schrank, they rhyme. I choose the wardrobe.' 'Good,' I'll say, and slowly descend the stairs (which?) and - if I haven't found the Danube canal, I'll still be alive today.

Gleichzeitig aber vergaß er nicht, sich zwischendurch daran zu erinnern, daß viel besser als verzweifelte Entschlüsse ruhige und ruhigste Überlegung sei.

U ruci nemam ništa, na krovu je sve, a ipak moram izabrati ništa. Tako odre?uju borbeni odnosi i životna potreba.

Kafka earned his doctorate in law in 1906 but decided against practicing, to the disappointment of his father.

Perhaps if he were to open the door to the next room, or even the door to the hall, the two would not dare stop him, perhaps the best solution would be to bring the whole matter to a head. But then they might indeed grab him, and once subdued he would lose any degree of superiority he might still hold over them. Therefore he preferred the safety of whatever solution would surely arise in the natural course of things and returned to his room without a further word having passed on either side.

he had acted with no thought at all for what might follow and had been made to suffer for it.

Pero tales cosas por lo visto no se toman en consideración en el momento decisivo, en ninguno de los continentes, ni en Europa ni en América, sino antes bien se toman decisiones según el rapto de furia del primer momento y conforme a la primera sentencia que salga de la boca.

Para el sospechoso es mejor moverse que sentarse, ya que puede estar, sin saberlo, sobre una balanza y ser pesado según sus pecados

Mein Großvater pflegte zu sagen: 'Das Leben ist erstaunlich kurz. Jeztz in der Erinnerung drängt es sich mir so zusammen, daß ich zum Beispiel kaum begreife, wie ein junger Mensch sich entschließen kann ins nächste Dorf zu reiten, ohne zu fürchten, daß - von unglücklichen Zufällen ganz abgesehen - schon die Zeit des gewöhnlichen, glücklich ablaufenden Lebens für einen solchen Ritt bei weitem nicht hinreicht.

Folgte er aber wirklich dem Rat […] so bliebe er dann trotz allem in seiner Fremde, verbittert durch die Ratschläge, und den Freunden noch ein Stück mehr entfremdet […] fände sich nicht in seinen Freunden und nicht ohne sie zurecht, litte an Beschämung, hätte jetzt wirklich keine Heimat und keine Freunde mehr; war es da nicht viel besser für ihn, er blieb in der Fremde, so wie er war?

If ever that door offers itself to me again, I swore, I will go in out of this dust and heat, out of this dry glitter of vanity, out of these toilsome futilities. I will go and never return. This time I will stay... I swore it and when the time came — I DIDN'T GO.

The simile of the bird in the hand and the two in the bush has only a very remote application here. In my hand I have nothing, in the bush is everything, and yet—so it is decided by the conditions of battle and the exigency of life—I must choose the nothing.

I've forgotten to ask you what kind of acquittal you want. There are three possibilities: actual acquittal, apparent acquittal, and prolongation.

Der Vergleich von dem Sperling in der Hand und der Taube auf dem Dach paßt hier nur sehr entfernt. In der Hand habe ich nichts, auf dem Dach ist alles und doch muß ich –so entscheiden es die Kampfverhältnisse und die Lebensnot– das Nicht wählen.

Od pewnego punktu nie ma ju? ?adnego odwrotu. Ten punkt nale?y osi?gn??.

Existe um objetivo, mas nenhum caminho; o que chamamos de caminho é hesitação.

Now he remembered this long since forgotten resolution, and quickly forgot it again, like someone pulling a short thread right through the eye of a needle.

I took a semester off to film 'Scream Queens,' which was a great decision because it was an incredibly wild experience that did a lot for me as far as my career.

Being on a grand jury felt like attending a series of hangings in a legal Wild West. Hands up for a true bill. Hands up for a dismissal. A show of hands to save a life, or to end it.

When I was only eleven years old, I decided to become a writer. I told this ambition in a letter to Laura Ingalls Wilder; the die was cast. How could I go back on my word?