Quotes About Decision

You'll do what you think you want to do, or what you think you ought to do. If you're very lucky, luckier than anybody I know, the two will coincide.

I know no way of discounting the doctrine that when you take something you want, and damn the consequences, then you had better be ready to accept whatever consequences ensue.

There hadn't really been any decision. As she dragged the round-topped trunk up the steps and propped its lid against the table, she was thinking that you never really made up your mind to anything. You simply bent where the pressure was greatest. You didn't surrender, because surrender was annihilation, but you gave before the pressure.

After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the world hangs.

After the final no there comes a yes. And on that yes the future world depends. No was the night. Yes is this present sun.

Tras el ultimo "NO" viene un "sí". Y de ese sí depende el porvenir del mundo.

Begin your writing, fiction or article, where the action begins. This action can be internal (e.g., an important insight or personal decision) or external (e.g., a murder or calamity). Begin too early, you lose your reader. Begin too late, you lose your story.

The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.

Action is a business of risk; the real question is the magnitude of that risk.

I want to say that probably 24 hours after I told CBS that I was stepping down at my 65th birthday, I was already regretting it. And I regretted it every day since.

Discrimination is simply the act of choice. Scarcity requires us to choose; scarcity is the cause of discrimination!

Solo puedo describir la experiencia de conversión como una sensación de «dejarse llevar», de renunciar a todo esfuerzo o incluso a mi deseo de tomar las riendas de mi propia vida. Aunque suene demasiado simple, esa decisión ha condicionado a partir de entonces cada uno de los momentos de mi vida. Solo puedo llamarlo una conversión.

Only man can freely choose not to serve his Creator.

Without knowledge you cannot choose wisely. And without wise choice, there is no freedom.

Gabriel knew that he had let himself in for a certain amount of ridicule when he decided to allow himself to be worshiped. In the end he decided that the precedent of actually forbidding a religion was more distasteful than being plagued by the devout.

If only the heart's advice were infallible.

My thoughts are my company I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.

It's quite simple, just follow the dotted line," the Planmaker explained. "Don't let any bad idea lead you astray. Don't let them persuade you to take a short cut or take one yourself. Life is a winding path. One sometimes has to make detours. That's my humble opinion, anyway.

It was part of the beauty, but also the tragedy, of this sport that the spectators were the ultimate judges of who sat on the throne.

Das Leben ist zu kostbar um es dem Zufall zu überlassen. - Deus X. Machina

I had dispensed with a rudder on the principal that fate must be given a chance.

There are times in your life when things line up and Fate takes a hand in your future," Ptolemy remembered Coydog saying. "When that happens, you got to move quick and take advantage of the sitchiation or you'll never know what might have been." "How do I know when it's time to move quick?" L'il Pea asked. "When somethin' big happens and then somethin' else come up.

your choices can then only be as good as your requests, and sometimes that is not enough. There is a higher level that comes through recognition: You may not be able to articulate what you want, but you can recognize it when you see it.

Si alguien, valientemente, toma la difícil decisión de "viajar bien" y salirse de los patrones preestablecidos, la presión social será inexorable, en especial si las metas del individuo no coinciden con los valores del grupo de referencia.