Quotes About Decision

I will choose my own fall, which is ascension

We all have a past. We all have a future. But all we really have is right now. You can change your destiny in one moment, if only you refuse to do what you once did.

The beauty and riddle in studying the motives of any politician is in trying to decide what is idealism and what is self-interest; and often we are left to conclude that the answer is a mixture of the two.

There was a certain point in my life where I had to decide that I was going to take my future and Nicole's and not wallow in what happened to me because when you do that, you just keep repeating what's been happening and at some point you have to make a choice.

On ne reste pas parce qu'on aime certaines personnes; on s'en va parce qu'on en déteste d'autres. Il n'y a que le moche qui vous fasse agir. On est lâches.

The choice of life is not between fame and fortune, nor wealth and poverty, but between good and evil.

You tell them - you tell them there's a cost.....Every decision we make in life, there's always a cost.

That there's no more important decision in life than who you marry.

If I have to choose between agreement and conflict, I'll take conflict every time," Bezos often said. "It always yields a better result.

I see companies these days where thoughts of "exits" are foremost in the minds of top management and board, and it is so clear that this value will infect the decision making down to the smallest choice by the most junior employee. Do we create something that is good, or just that seems good and might get us acquired or funded?

resonance. "We had a key decision to make," he says. "Was distribution a commodity or was it a core competency?

that, "as unlikely as this string of events is, we are evaluating options to make this case even less likely." After those incidents, employees had to write a

Bezos didn't believe anyone could make a good decision about a feature or a product without knowing precisely how it would be communicated to the world—and what the hallowed customer would make of it.

Não ganhamos dinheiro quando vendemos coisas. Ganhamos dinheiro quando ajudamos os clientes a decidir o que comprar.

I have to choose between agreement and conflict, I'll take conflict every time," Bezos often said. "It always yields a better result.

series of choices

precipitously,

Moving cautiously and playing by the rules had proven to be a costly mistake.

regret minimization framework

The butterfly effect. Change one thing, you change everything.

Right now, maybe it was best to keep this black and white and stay away from the moral relativism.

Maybe Jared was sick today. He lived, I knew thanks to Spoon, on the second floor of Barna House. I could go and see if he was there. The other option was to . . . to what? I could go find Ema at the deli, but then it might be harder to come back on campus without a lot of questions. Might

Let her go? What kind of crap is that? She's eighteen, Myron. That makes her an adult. She asked you for a ride. You gallantly—and stupidly, I might add—gave her one. That's it." "That's not it.

A dozen thoughts hit me all at once. The biggest was a one-word command: RUN! I had watched the horror movies, the ones where the mentally malnourished airhead goes into the house alone, sneaking around like, well, like me, and then ends up with an ax between the eyes. From the safety of my seat in the cineplex, I had scoffed at their idiocy and now, here I was, in Bat Lady's lair, and someone else was here, in the basement. Why