Quotes About Decision

It's fine to experience regret when we abandon a sunk cost. It's a mistake to stick with one simply because we can't bear the regret.

el coste de equivocarse es inferior al coste de no hacer nada.

A curious person embraces the tension between his religion and something new, wrestles with it and through it, and then decides whether to embrace the new idea or reject it.

The difference between backing off and doing nothing may appear subtle, but it's not. A leader who backs off is making a commitment to the power of the tribe, and is alert to the right moment to step back in. Someone who is doing nothing is merely hiding. Leadership is a choice. It's the choice to not do nothing. Lean in, back off, but don't do nothing.

You don't have to die in the next year if you die this year.

I go and it is done. The bell invites me. Hear it not, Duncan, for it is a knell that summons thee to heaven or to hell.

I wonder at how many of us, feeling unsafe and unprotected, either end up running far away from everything we know and love, or staying and simply going mad. I have decided today that neither option is more or less noble than the other. They are merely different ways of coping, and we each must cope as best we can.

Perhaps many of them shared my sentiments, but our options then were black and white, between this and that. The grey area of freedom we longed for existed only in dreams.

Pull over here, Bruno said. At the mall. Here? Alex Aaro scowled over his shoulder at them. You're being pursued by hit men, and you want an Egg McMuffin?

Sensible men were not eager to submit themselves to the Judgement of the Almighty, and a decisive battle seemed to prove that the victor had God on his side. Most people preferred not to put the Lord's Favour to such a stringent, conclusive test.

Let us return to 'no'. It has the charm of brevity.

When we feel conflicted about a particular decision or action, our bodies often hold the answer—if we take the time to stop and tune in.

Now, he says, you all need to stand by your choices. Fighters should expect to get locked up again. If you can accept that, then there's no shame in it. Everybody is free to do whatever they want in life, so long as they accept the cost.

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This is what the LORD says: "Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls." (JEREMIAH 6:16)

When General Johnston had heard them out, he drew himself up in the saddle, leather creaking, and said quietly: "Gentlemen, we shall attack at daylight tomorrow.

Two commanders on the same field are always one too many

Grant agreed at least with the final sentence - which he later paraphrased and sharpened into a maxim: 'Two commanders on the same field are always one too many.' (p. 188)

You have to get very comfortable with the idea of being lonely. For all of human history, we've always run away from being lonely and now there are even more distractions. But that's the thing—if you're going to make the decision to rebel against your tribe, you're going to get very lonely.

There's never enough time to change your life. You don't get to change your life, period.

Mia nonna è stata l'unica a essere sicura al cento per cento che la mia fosse la decisione giusta. Pensa a tutte le persone che conoscerai mi aveva detto. Tutto il senso della vita sta in questo, capito? Conoscere tante persone. Mi piacerebbe poter venire con te.È una cosa così eccitante!

I've seen only painters and fishermen and I think they're both the same kind of men who made a different choice one time in their lives. The fisherman held a rod in his hand and said yes and the painter held a brush in his hand and said yes and sometimes I hold a beer in my hand and say yes.

Because adoption is a lifelong journey, we have a future filled with the potential to learn invaluable lessons. But many of us haven't been taught that we have a choice in every situation in life.

The past is dead. Tomorrow will become whatever decision you make it. ~ Acheron.