Quotes About Decision

Bright Idea #89: If you ever don't know which direction to go in, or you start moving in the right direction but then get lost along the way, don't get rattled and start moving fast, this way and that. Instead, stand still and be quiet. Then you'll be showed which way to go.

You're the expert,' I said. 'I'd just have told you to use your best judgement in any case.' She nodded, seemingly relieved, and I swept my gaze around the rest of the little group. 'And that goes for the rest of you too,' I added. 'Unless you're faced with a decision which will affect our safety as a group, just get on with it.

After that experience, I decided that the things that were more important to do were the things I was actually not focused on, and I wasn't focused on them because I was pretty much afraid of failing," he says. [quoted from Mark Roth]

A wise man takes a step at a time; he establishes one foot before he takes up the other: an old place should not be forsaken recklessly.

They could bind her to them, all of them, with need and love and worry. But they would not. They knew her as well as she knew them, and they would not ask her to stay.

I'm sure there are many women who would prefer not to have children, but few of them are honest with themselves about that.

the day came for every woman when she must choose one kind of life or another or let someone else make the choice for her.

No one ever does anything out of charity," Anna went on. "Every choice we make benefits ourselves directly or indirectly. Even if it looks like a sacrifice, the alternative would be unbearable in some way. If I hadn't helped I wouldn't sleep well, and I need my sleep.

When it's right it's never too late, when it's wrong it's always too soon

But I knew I was there for a reason. There are no coincidences. Just opportunities you've been too dumb to take, doors you've been too blind to step through.

Karma is not a sentence already printed. It is a series of words that authors can arrange as she chooses.

Sometimes I think if I had to choose between an ear of corn or making love to a woman, I'd choose the corn.

No agent wants to see a book until he or she has decided whether to pursue the relationship.

Just because you make a decision quickly doesn't mean it's wrong. You don't always need a lot of time to make a good decision.

I know I have to stop. We all have to stop. Funny how knowing something's a bad idea doesn't make a difference.

I wonder when, and how, she decided that what she has with him trumped the thrill of being with someone new.

A lo mejor cada vez que me fui, cada vez que hice por olvidar, cada vez que guardé silencio, estaba eligiendo. Quién sabe, puede ser.

If he's giving you up, maybe he isn't worth it.

I hope they'll understand why I did this, when it's all said and done... I'd hate to leave them. - Emma, about the Mercers

her mother grounded her for it, actually, because what idiot besides a firefighter runs into a burning building?

Sometimes rescue comes to you. It just shows up, and you do nothing. Maybe you deserve it, maybe you don't. But be ready, when it comes, to decide if you will take the outstretched hand and let it pull you ashore.

The radical call of faith is not to insist upon a set of universal principles about right and wrong, but to offer an alternative story by which lives can be shaped into new instincts, new practices, new ways of speaking and being in the world. We want our teens to make a decision consistent with the better story of which they are a part, a decision that doesn't even feel like a decision but a script they know by heart.

You've got to make a conscious choice every day to shed the old - whatever 'the old' means for you.

Up in the room, I heard one of them say, "Did she say how she's getting to Gabriela's? You don't think she'll try to drive herself?" "Nah," another said. "She has more sense than that." Scooping up my bag, I ran for the garage and stole Liam's car.