Quotes About Decision

Unfortunately, the proliferation of choice in our lives robs us of the opportunity to decide for ourselves just how important any given decision is.

On the other hand, the fact that some choice is good doesn't necessarily mean that more choice is better.

The existence of multiple alternatives makes it easy for us to imagine alternatives that don't exist—alternatives that combine the attractive features of the ones that do exist. And to the extent that we engage our imaginations in this way, we will be even less satisfied with the alternative we end up choosing. So, once again, a greater variety of choices actually makes us feel worse.

What we don't realize is that the very option of being allowed to change our minds seems to increase the chances that we will change our minds.

Knowing that you've made a choice that you will not reverse allows you to pour your energy into improving the relationship that you have rather than constantly second-guessing it.

Buying jeans is a trivial matter, but it suggests a much larger theme we will pursue throughout this book, which is this: When people have no choice, life is almost unbearable.

Pay attention to what you're giving up in the next-best alternative, but don't waste energy feeling bad about having passed up an option further down the list that you wouldn't have gotten to anyway.

I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 1962, and I was ready to make music.

You can't believe something just because someone else desperately wants you to.

Another possibility is to use the Captain

The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized!

It shows how to evaluate claims about facts (what might happen) and about values (what might matter).

The body itself, simply from the laws of its own nature, can do many things which its mind wonders at … it is in the mind's power alone both to speak and to be silent and to do many other things which they therefore believe depend on the mind's decision … if, on the other hand, the body is inactive, the mind is at the same time incapable of thinking

For there is nothing more intolerable to mankind than suspense; when a thing is once decided, men can but endure whatever out of the catalogue of evils it is their misfortune to undergo.

But Quebec is an illuminating example of the truth that a decision is produced even more by the mental and moral dislocation of the command than by the physical dislocation of its forces.

Considering retirement is like skirting with the reality of what's to come, and I think that's why so many athletes decide to do more introspection at that point.

There may be the kinds of things that you may find interesting, but then there's also the practical reality of needing to make a living and this is what you have to choose from.

I definitely would not do a reality show.

You don't take a reality show and make it a movie. At least I wouldn't.

I made a rule not to be on reality shows.

We have got offered some shows in America, but really dopey shows - like reality shows.

Reality TV - I'm not trying to dog it, everybody has their own thing, you know - but I didn't see it for me.

I went onto reality TV as a business decision.

I've turned down millions of dollars to go on reality TV. It's an absolute no-go.