Quotes About Decision

Come up with a terrible idea? No problem—just don't act on it.

The governing principle is precisely the same one that predicts behavior at the gas pump. When the price of gasoline is low, people choose to buy more gasoline. When the price of accidents (e.g., the probability of being killed or the expected medical bill) is low, people choose to have more accidents. You

If you find yourself mapping a "whether or not" question, you're almost always better off turning it into a "which one" question that gives you more available paths.

Sooner or later, there's always a Jaws: a mental hurdle we can't clear, a decision too dangerous to attack head on. In those situations, sideways is forward.

No one wants distortion, but choosing itself is the distortion.

At every moment we choose, consciously or unconsciously, between good things now and better things later.

The asymmetry has been confirmed in the lab by showing that people will take a bigger gamble to avoid a sure loss than to improve on a sure gain

The psychologist Walter Mischel captured the conflict in an agonizing choice he gave four-year-olds in a famous 1972 experiment: one marshmallow now or two marshmallows in fifteen minutes.15 Life is a never-ending gantlet of marshmallow tests, dilemmas that force us to choose between a sooner small reward and a later large reward.

They left. Among the many dumb rules of paragraphing foisted on students in composition courses is the one that says that a paragraph may not consist of a single sentence. Wilkerson ends a richly descriptive introductory chapter with a paragraph composed of exactly two syllables. The abrupt ending and the expanse of blankness at the bottom of the page mirror the finality of the decision to move and the uncertainty of the life that lay ahead. Good writing finishes strong.

With this definition the case for rationality seems all too obvious: do you want things or don't you? If you do, rationality is what allows you to get them.

Let choice whisper in your ear and love murmur in your heart. Be ready. Here comes life.

I am not the one who loves - It's love that chooses me. When hatred with his package comes, you forbid delivery...

What we choose, changes us. What we love, transforms us.

For she had eyes and chose me.

Love is more than an emotion, it is a decision.

It is not enough ... simply to surrender oneself brainlessly to love, when it knocks at the door, one must also calculate because of later life, which does sometimes follow.

The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial one in any love story.

Choose the way of life. Choose the way of love. Choose the way of caring. Choose the way of goodness. It's up to you. It's your choice.

The middle of the road is where the white line is - and that's the worst place to drive.

How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury?

We have a choice every day between fear and love.

The greatest hazard in life is to risk NOTHING.

I feel really good right now. It will really be a tough decision. It's so hard to give up what you love doing. Hanging up the boots will not be an easy thing to do.

Every choice gives you a chance to pave your own road. Keep moving. Full speed ahead