Quotes About Decision

I've turned down all sorts of good things accidentally, too. I read the script for 'Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind' and thought, 'This makes no sense.' Then I went to the cinema to see it. Well, what an idiot.

Going to parties by myself? Yeah, I don't know if it's super cool or super uncool. I haven't decided yet.

There was a time when I was offered two episodes of 'Alias,' that show with Jennifer Garner which J.J. Abrams did back before he became the mega producer and super successful director. I instead decided I wanted to play this family guy on a short-lived UPN 'Second Time Around.' It starred Boris Kodjoe and Nicole Ari Parker.

I've tried to distance myself from the RISE initiative based off a gut feeling I had. I've done little things here and there, but I wasn't included in the Super Bowl thing they did, and it's something I felt in my gut from the beginning. I respect the work that they've done, but things aren't aligning for me so I try to stay away from it.

Why did John Elway not come back for a shot at a third Super Bowl? He just had had enough.

It is a blessed moment of inner life when one decides or resolves from now on to love with all one's strength and unflinchingly that which one fears the most, that which has made us—according to our own measure—suffer too much. Don't you believe that once such a decision has been made, the word "separation" is nothing but a name stripped of all meaning

We often decide in advance how we will respond to something rather than wait for the experience to play itself out according to its proper speed.

What shouldn't a person be able to achieve with precisely the kind of force that is needed to dissolve the powerful, tremendous attachments of life! From that moment on I have known with certainty that the worst things, and even despair, are only a kind of abundance and an onslaught of existence that one decision of the heart could turn into its opposiite. Where things become truly difficult and unbearable, we find ourselves in a place already very close to its transformation.

Sein Sinn ist Zwiespalt. An der Kreuzung zweier Herzwege steht kein Tempel für Apoll.

In those days it was either live with music or die with noise, and we chose rather desperately to live.

Would you like to resurrect God to take responsibility?" He shook his head. "No, Brother, we have to make such decisions ourselves.

Whatever course you decide upon there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires....courage.

When you strike at a king, you must kill him.

God offers to every mind a choice between repose and truth. take which you please--you can never have both. [Essay on Intellect]

Whatever you do you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there will always be someone to tell you that you are wrong.

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be

I am embarrassed to admit what drew me to psychology. I didn't want to go to medical school. I was getting good grades in psychology and I was charismatic and people in the psychology department liked me. It was as low a level as that.

The optimum strategy is to act as if we have free choice and to choose always that which we feel is most in harmony with the way of things.

Calm yourself. Think with your intellect, not your burning heart, and you will see what I must do.

To procrastinate obedience is to disobey God.

Foulgrin: If you can keep Fletcher from saying a definitive no to a temptation, you've won. Whatever is not a no is merely a postponed yes. (advice to the tempter Squaltaint)

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'" —C. S. Lewis

We live our lives in eternity's lobby, walking toward a door that will forever seal our destiny.

In the end, we have two choices: both God and happiness neither God nor happiness