Quotes About Decision

There is little more terrifying than the possibility that you could come to a crisis point in your life when you need every faculty you possess, at that moment, to make the decision properly, only to find you have pathologized yourself with deceit and can no longer rely on your own judgment. Good luck to you, because nothing but luck will then serve to save you.

that is, the doubt that doubt itself is an ultimately reliable guide) objects: the worst decision of all is none.

Osiris's decision to close his eyes when he should have kept them open exacted a brutally heavy price: subjugation to his evil brother, Set. The idea that the state had a malevolent brother was an axiom, we might say, of the Egyptian worldview—no doubt the consequence of a complex, long-standing civilization observing its own flaws—and something that has retained its relevance to the current day.

to seek peace—you have to decide that you want the answer, more than you want to be right.

In other words, you decide to act as if existence might be justified by its goodness—if only you behaved properly. And it is that decision, that declaration of existential faith, that allows you to overcome nihilism, and resentment, and arrogance.

Then you ask yourself, "What could I do, that I would do, that would accomplish that, and what small thing would I like as a reward?" Then you do what you have decided to do, even if you do it badly. Then you give yourself that damn coffee, in triumph.

You can decide for yourself what truth there might be in that concern after reading this book. :)

He chose rebirth over descent into Hell.

Ver es algo muy difícil, así que tienes que elegir qué ver y obviar lo demás.

You must determine where you are going in your life, because you cannot get there unless you move in that direction.

THE QUESTION IS WHY WOULD YOU EVER DO ANYTHING?

Perhaps you should also be positioning yourself for a lateral move—into another job, for example, noting as you may, "This occupation is deadening my soul, and that is truly not for me.

It requires the willingness to change, which is almost always indistinguishable from the decision to leave something (or someone, or some idea) behind. Therefore, the simplest response imaginable is to look away and refuse to think, while simultaneously erecting unsurmountable impediments to genuine communication.

You must decide how much of your time to spend on this, and how much on that. You must decide what to let go, and what to pursue.

Wait a second, Bill: you mean to tell me that if I put you into Union Carbide at 7 and took you out at 32, and I put you into U.S. Steel at 16 and took you out at 41, and I put you into Facebook at 70 and took you out at 130, then you wouldn't be saying, 'Pick me up at least a few thousand shares of Microsoft right now, on the spot, come on'?

It sounds great, let me think about it …" or "Let me do a bit more research and I'll call you back.

people don't buy on logic; they buy on emotion, and then justify their decision with logic.

So, all Bill has to do now is lay out a closing scenario, explaining the various steps that Mr. Smith needs to take to get the ball rolling, and then ask him for the order.

Just how you go about doing that turned out to be elegantly simple, albeit with one complication: You have only four seconds to do it. Otherwise, you're toast.

return. In essence, you want to crystallize the fact that once they say yes they're going to receive a massive number of valuable benefits, and the amount of energy they'll have to expend will be considerably lower. By the way, one company that does this just about as well as a company can possibly do it is Amazon.

Jacob cut his gaze to me. I wasn't quiet sure how to convey, /I know we hate him, but based on the circumstances, it was the most logical thing to do/, with a nonverbal signal. I widened my eyes a little.

Nonlinear thinking means which way you should go depends on where you already are.

If you decide what color jelly beans to eat based just on the papers that get published, you're making the same mistake the army made when they counted the bullet holes on the planes that came back from Germany.

You don't get to choose not to pay a price, you only get to choose which price you pay.