Quotes About Decision

For men, the Right Time to become a parent seems to be any time after reaching the age of consent.

I don't react and think off emotions - that gets you in a bad situation.

Give Hamas 90 days to pick a lane, then react.

I don't know how I would react to the casting couch. I'm sure that at that moment, you won't really know what to do. Whatever you do at that moment is instinctive.

Every GM will tell you it's an instinct. It's an instinct to be patient, to react, or act, or not to do anything at all. It just comes. What I can say is you must have a plan and a goal and a way to do things. At the end of the day, it's an instinct. Sometimes it's good. Sometimes it's bad.

Once I've picked the ball up, I look at the full-back and I make my decision. Am I going to go past him? I don't think about it before. Everything I do is a reaction. That's why some people don't like it.

Our ecological emergency demands proactive choices, not reactive sideswipes.

You have to know how to read your lie and take a calculated risk when you hit out of the rough.

'Drown' was always a hybrid book. It's connected stories - partially a story collection but partially a novel. I always wanted the reader to decide which genre they thought the book belonged to more - story, novel, neither, both.

Choosing the narrator for a first-person story like 'Downriver' is a crucial decision because the voice has to be one the reader wants to listen to, and the voice has to be a match for the emotion you want the story to carry.

I made a decision to write for my readers, not to try to find more readers for my writing.

Point-of-view is a matter that readers rarely pay attention to, yet it's one of the most important story decisions an author makes.

One decision I made in writing 'Henry and Clara' was that I would keep Lincoln's appearances and any dialogue by him to an absolute minimum, because I think readers don't quite believe it when novelists have Lincoln walking around and saying things. They just know they're in the presence of stage machinery.

People have told me that they cannot put down 'If I Stay' after reading it, and readers have become very invested in the love story between Adam and Mia.

I don't read horror, ever. When I was 15, I made the mistake of reading part of 'The Exorcist.' It was the first and last horror book I've ever opened.

My mum reads every script before I go for it.

I love children. I just don't know if I'm ready to have kids. I feel like I have more time. Kids are cute, you know? They need a lot of help - that's the thing.

I told my father I wanted to play the banjo, and so he saved the money and got ready to give me a banjo for my next birthday, and between that time and my birthday, I lost interest in the banjo and was playing guitar.

People can only do what they are ready to do when they are ready to do it.

Over the years, when I've seen players retire, when you ask them about it, they always say you'll know when you're ready, and I think I know when I'm ready. I think I'm ready.

I may adopt. I love children and I do feel the need to take the legacy forward. I am open to it, but emotionally you have to be ready for it. Raising a child is really a huge responsibility. And I should have that time and emotional energy to give to child. How and when is a decision my mother and I will take a few years from now.

We shouldn't have got married, really. Shouldn't have got married. Too young. Not ready for it.

I keep saying this: that I'll get married when I am ready to have a kid. I won't have a kid without getting married for sure.

A woman who is not ready to have a baby making it work is not a happy ending to me. It's a personal nightmare.