Quotes About Decision

Leadership demands that we make tough choices.

That's a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.

Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it's now or never.

How many millions there are who don't want to go to Hell, but they don't want to get off the road to Hell.

Lei li guardò per un lungo momento senza parlare, poi disse: "Tornate indietro". Le rosse figure esitarono. Lei fece un passo avanti e sbottò: "Oppure restate".

I lie there for a while in the dusk, then make a decision, little knowing how it will affect every facet of my life and fiber of my being for the rest of my life: I say no to shame.

I believe the second you feel you have triumphed or overcome something, anything—an abuse, an injury to the body or the mind, an addiction, a character flaw, a habit, a person—you have merely decided to

Nobody has the right to tell you what books you can and can't read except your parents.

I wasn't happy about it, but I respected their decision. Every now and then you had to break the rules to do the right thing, but a lot of times following the rules was the right thing.

Pasoon," Reshmina said, "what if there was another way? What if—" But when she looked up, Pasoon was gone.

The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide, and to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.

In this world, time has three dimensions, like space. Just as an object may move in three perpendicular directions, corresponding to horizontal, vertical, and longitudinal, so an object may participate in three perpendicular futures. Each future moves in a different direction of time. Each future is real. At every point of decision, the world splits into three worlds, each with the same people, but different fates for those people. In time, there are an infinity of worlds.

What sense is there in continuing when one has seen the future?

Who would fare better in this world of fitful time? Those who have seen the future and live only one life? Or those who have not seen the future and wait to live life? Or those who deny the future and live two lives?

I see the better way, and approve it; I follow the worse.

The only principle I'm prepared to absolutely commit to, with absolute certainty, is that I can change my mind.

When we choose things that are evil and stupid, then we pay the cost of lost opportunities to do something good—something wise and unselfish.

If she's stupid enough to leave, then you have to be smart enough to let her go.

I'm doing it because I choose it. And if it's not working, I can make a change.

Besides, a life without freedom to choose is not worth having.

The choice between the ethical and the aesthetic is not the choice between good and evil, it is the choice whether or not to choose in terms of good and evil.

But whenever you think, 'this is an exciting idea' and immediately follow that by thinking, 'this is a very stupid idea' then you know you are on to a good thing and that you will regret it if you wimp out.

Moreover, one must show, in the historical period of interest, that these heuristics and preferences are consistent across a significant portion of decision makers socialized in this strategic culture before drawing any conclusions about

Sometimes the only workable solution isn't a fair one