Quotes About Decision

Spontaneity means option, the freedom to choose and express one's feelings from the assortment available.

Dos caminos se dividían en un bosque y yo tomé el menos transitado, y eso estableció una gran diferencia.

One ship goes East another West, By the self-same winds that blow; 'Tis the set of the sail and not the gale Which determines the way they go.

Da un paso, elige un curso de acción. Haz lo que puedas hacer y ve tan lejos como puedas ir. La guía es un proceso que trabaja de manera más efectiva cuando estás en movimiento.

They sent me three songs written by a Texas songwriter they represented named Jerry Lynn Williams—"Forever Man," "Something's Happening," and "See What Love Can Do"—and they were good. I loved the way he sang, and I sent back a message to say I would do it, on the condition that they produced the songs and provided the musicians. I think it was, professionally, the first time I'd ever had to back down.

Damn! - I'd rather walk into something of my own accord than to be frogmarched into it." "So it says here in the file. James Mowry, twenty-six, restless and pigheaded. Can be trusted to do anything at all - provided the alternative is worse." "You sound like my father. Did he tell you that?" "The Service does not reveal its sources of information.

The greatest cruelties of our century have been the impersonal cruelties of remote decision, of system and routine, especially when they could be justified as regrettable operational necessity.

His decision to break off, however, left the critical ground between South Mountain and Hagerstown firmly in Confederate hands, meaning that Lee's army would be able to concentrate there. In this, Kilpatrick inexplicably cost the Army of the Potomac the initiative that it never could regain.

He concluded, "I'm sure there will be lawyers all over this thing if the citizens of Frederick County decided they wanted to join (West Virginia).

What we do know for certain is that he made up his mind to take the 125 wagons with him into Pennsylvania. The decision triggered a controversy that has raged for more than 140 years.

Notice that your judgments of what exists are the same kind of judgments you make about how to live your life. There aren't two kinds of things we do: judge what exists and decide what we want to do about it. Fundamentally, there is one kind of thing we do: live our lives. And we can reflect on this activity more or less abstractly.

Creativity is not a talent or ability. It is the fruit of a person's decision to matter.

If you board the wrong train it is no use running along the corridor in the opposite direction. —DIETRICH BONHOEFFER

It must be made quite clear—terrifying though it is—that we are immediately faced with the decision: National Socialist or Christian . . .

One knows what is right, but holds it at arm's length for a time, neither throwing it out, nor embracing it.

Whenever there was a dilemma, I just left it in abeyance and—without really consciously dealing with it intensively—let it grow toward the clarity of a decision. But this clarity is not so much intellectual as it is instinctive. The decision is made; whether one can adequately justify it retrospectively is another question. "Thus" it happened that I went. Bonhoeffer was always thinking about thinking.

If you board the wrong train it is no use running along the corridor in the opposite direction.

He knew that, if left to do as he liked, he might fritter away the rest of his life, just as he'd frittered away so many years already. He knew that he didn't want to go back to where he had been before, and he would take whatever steps were necessary to ensure that he continued on the new path he was now on.

What determines our being virtuous is largely the absence of opportunity to be otherwise

Ask most entrepreneurs who have decided to pivot and they will tell you that they wish they had made the decision sooner.

there is no bigger destroyer of creative potential than the misguided decision to persevere.

My goal in advocating a scientific approach to the creation of startups is to channel human creativity into its most productive form, and there is no bigger destroyer of creative potential than the misguided decision to persevere. Companies

The big question of our time is not Can it be built? but Should it be built?

David faced the difficult challenge of deciding whether to pivot or persevere. This is one of the hardest decisions entrepreneurs face. The goal of creating learning milestones is not to make the decision easy; it is to make sure that there is relevant data in the room when it comes time to decide.