Quotes About Decision

No one would have faulted him for doing either.

and he couldn't endure the prospect of a longer operation.

Studdert stood firm with his decision not to take more, but you could see he was uneasy about it.

But for whatever reasons—hubris, inattention, wishful thinking, hesitation, or the uncertainty of the moment—I let the opportunity pass.

It is still not apparent to me what the clues were that I was registering when I first saw Eleanor's leg. Likewise, it is not obvious what the signs were that we could get by without an amputation.

You must decide whether you want a DO-CONFIRM checklist or a READ-DO checklist.

No one was thinking of any better options

Mr. Drury seldom questioned his daughter's choices, but this sounded to him like a bad idea.

there's always something. We want these choices. But that doesn't mean we are eager to make the choices ourselves. Instead, most often, we make no choice at all. We fall back on the default, and the default is: Do Something. Fix Something. Is there any way out of this? There

He found the bullets for the gun and contemplated suicide.

For all these reasons, the operation is at best a last resort

I would have gone through with it even if they told me there was a fifty percent chance of death.

I had to wonder if we were right to operate on him.

The alternative was to do nothing.

We are running up against the difficulty of maintaining a coherent philosophical distinction between giving people the right to stop external or artificial processes that prolong their lives and giving them the right to stop the natural, internal processes that do so

So the night before the operation he did an unusual thing: he discussed the treatment options with her and let her choose.

Sometimes, of course, the difference between one option and another isn't especially significant.

One has to decide whether one's fears or one's hopes are what should matter most. *

Thirteen minutes after I took him off the ventilator

the team decided whether the doctor was fit to return to practice. Neff

You must decide whether you want a DO-CONFIRM checklist or a READ-DO checklist. With a DO-CONFIRM checklist, he said, team members perform their jobs from memory and experience, often separately. But then they stop. They pause to run the checklist and confirm that everything that was supposed to be done was done. With a READ-DO checklist, on the other hand, people carry out the tasks as they check them off—it's more like a recipe.

knew I was letting myself be swayed by a single, recent, anecdotal case.

He hesitated before going on.

When to shift from pushing against limits to making the best of them is not often readily apparent. But it is clear that there are times when the cost of pushing exceeds its value.