Quotes About Decision

I tried to decide just how I should respond to them. Whether I should act like the teacher that I was, or like the nigger that I was supposed to be.

My mind held fast to that hot morning and the moment of coolness in the cabin. I could so easily re-enact every moment. Again-why had I gone back to exchange the beautiful charts at that precise moment? How many times would I, in whatever innocence, be compelled to choose the right time?

This matter is best disposed of from a great height, over water.

O bien poseer un destino propio o bien equivaler a un número: ésa es la disyuntiva que hoy nos viene impuesta -ciertamente por la fuerza- a todos y cada uno de nosotros, pero el inclinarse por lo uno o por lo otro es algo que corresponde decidir a cada uno por sí mismo

Mots exagérés pour dire qu'il est des réclusions mineures où l'on passe finalement un temps très long avant de s'en libérer. Car c'est bien un acte de volonté subit qui décide du terme et l'on se demande pourquoi on ne s'en est pas délivré plus tôt.

Il y a des chances qui tombent dans les bras du premier venu qu'elles rencontrent, des putains de chance qui le laissent tomber aussitôt pour aller avec le suivant, et il y a des chances avisées, au contraire, qui guettent une personne et l'éprouvent lentement.

if a state supreme court explicitly says that it is relying on state constitutional law for its decision, and there is no federal issue, the Supreme Court cannot review the state court's ruling at all.

United States v. Leon, the key case, was very controversial when it was decided in 1984. For the first time ever, the Court recognized a good faith exception to the exclusionary rule and paved the way for a much broader exception later.

I left the house to go throw away my chance at financial freedom someday ( i.e. Fill up my gas tank

I felt the house to go throw away my chance at financial freedom someday( i.e. Fill up my gas tank)

Life holds a sanctity for them we can scarcely begin to imagine; it therefore struck them as absurd that someone would choose to end it.

Trust your instincts.

Stand still. But not like Lot's wife." (From a talk on her book *Seeking God, Seeking Life*, (YouTube video), St Paul's, London, May 19, 2013)

Dana followed a specific structure: Set the stage. Gather data. Generate insights. Decide what to do. Close the retrospective.

Struggle, struggle, struggle never leads to a happy ending. It defies Law. "When I get there, then I'll be happy" is not a productive mind-set because unless you are happy, you cannot get there. When you decide to first be happy—then you will get there.

The expansion of the Universe and the evolution of all species is dependent on contrast. How could you ever decide what you do want, without living some of what you don't want? And so, be easy on yourself! Do not try to hold yourself to the impossible standard of only being in a place where everything is exactly as you want it to be. If you could do that you would cease to exist.

All is being received by choice. We see the power of influence from others as a tremendous hindrance to your own individual creative thinking. Every being who receives anything, does so by his own choosing. The information that is offered is not being thrust upon you. You are making the decision whether to receive it -- or whether not to receive it.

When you enter a new segment of your day, if you have not made a decision about what you want, you are easily swept up by the influence, or even the confusion, of those who surround you.

Once you have made a decision that nothing is more important than that you feel good, and you have decided that you are going to consciously look for some things to appreciate today, the object of your attention has now become the feeling of appreciation.

your life-and everyone else in the Universe is playing the part that you have assigned to them. You can literally script any life that you desire, and the Universe will deliver to you the people, places, and events just as you decide them to be. For you are the creator of your own experience-you have only to decide it and allow it to be.

The old woman said something and thrust the bowl into my hands. I looked to Argus. "What am I supposed to do?" "You had a mind of your own last time we talked. What do you think you're supposed to do?" he countered. " You're helpful." My words were bitter with sarcasm, but nothing on earth was half as bitter as that bowl of herbal brew.

If every hero stopped to think about all the what-ifs in his path, none of us would ever take one step beyond our own doorways.

given a choice between listening to Britney Spears and having a blocked aorta, I'd pick the latter)

Life gives me good advice, but sometimes I refuse to take it.