Quotes About Decision

Herkes istediÄŸini yapabilir, ama istediÄŸini isteyemez

A man can surely do what he wills to do, but he cannot determine what he wills.

Our brains are not the wisest parts of us. In the great moments of life, when a man decides upon an important step, his action is directed not so much by any clear knowledge of the right thing to do, as by an inner impulse (an instinct) - proceeding from the deepest foundations of his being.

El azar reparte las cartas pero nosotros las jugamos.

Either way, change will come. It could be bloody, or it could be beautiful. It depends on us.

Even in the most uneventful of our lives, we are called upon to choose our battles...

But can we, should we, let apprehensions about the future immobilize us in the present?

Had he known that he was about to enter a tunnel whose only egress was his own annihilation, would he have turned away?

For the Time Being they had no surname because Ammu was considering reverting to her maiden name, though she said that choosing between her husband's name and her fathers name didn't give a woman much of a choice.

Tears wet my eyes. I'm a surgeon. I like solving things. But how do I solve this?

He also found he made mistakes in handling complexity. A good decision requires looking at so many different features of companies in so many ways that, even without the cocaine brain, he was missing obvious patterns. His mental checklist wasn't good enough. "I am not Warren," he said. "I don't have a 300 IQ." He needed an approach that could work for someone with an ordinary IQ. So he devised a written checklist.

The problem is that the wise course is so frequently unclear. For a long while, I thought that this was simply because of uncertainty. When it is hard to know what will happen, it is hard to know what to do. But the challenge, I've come to see, is more fundamental than that. One has to decide whether one's fears or one's hopes are what should matter most.

That left only one possibility:

I gave S. a "Do you want to take over?" look.

the studies show that you're better off sticking with the computer's judgment.

I told him of how, almost thirty years before, my parents had narrowed their choices of where to take up practice to either Athens, Ohio, or Hancock, Michigan, in the upper peninsula.

Do we ever say that we need them to agree to it anyway? I've never seen it. Given the stakes, who in their right mind would agree to be practiced upon?

He decided to put off the follow-up appointment. It was ultimately a year before he returned to see Benzel. A repeat MRI showed the tumor had enlarged.

that I myself have said no.

we had not chosen who that cardiologist would be.

If offered the option to have someone more experienced, I certainly would have taken it. But that was simply how the system worked—no such choices were offered—and so I went along. What else could I do?

So what else was there but to biopsy?

It took her several minutes alone with her father before she could sign.

and when we decide by instinct