Quotes About Decision

For a while Bastian stood motionless. He was so stunned by what he had just heard that he couldn't decide what to do... What he had hoped was his ruin and what he had feared his salvation.

If you do, you'll be running an incalculable risk. It will be up to you whether the world begins to live again or stands still forever and a day. Are you really prepared to take that risk?

Two thousand million people in the world, and the one who has to decide their fate is is the only one who's always hidden from me.

As with any turning point or instance when a new road is chosen and an old one forsaken, there are consequences.

I thought instead of a good rule for survival on Wall Street: Never agree to anything proposed on someone else's boat or you'll regret in in the morning.

Years later he would say that when he'd decided to become a professional baseball player, it was the only time he'd done something just for the money, and that he'd never do something just for the money ever again. He would never again let the market dictate the direction of his life.

That was the moment I gave up on decision analysis," said Danny. "No one ever made a decision because of a number. They need a story." As Danny and Lanir wrote, decades later, after the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency asked them to describe their experience in decision analysis, the Israeli Foreign Ministry was "indifferent to the specific probabilities.

The world's not just a stage. It's a casino, and our lives are games of chance. And when people calculate the odds in any life situation, they are often making judgments about similarity—or (strange new word!) representativeness. You

After the war Avi, by then twenty-two years old, finally decided what he would study: psychology. Had you asked him just then why he picked psychology, "I would say I want to understand the human soul. Not the mind. The soul.

Meriwether spent his entire day avoiding dumb bets, and he wasn't about to accept this one.

The root of the CDC's behavior was simple: fear. They didn't want to take any action for which they might later be blamed.

No one ever made a decision because of a number. They need a story.

Los sujetos no elegían entre cosas. Elegían entre descripciones de cosas.

It's one thing to bet on red or black and know that you are betting on red or black. It's another to bet on a form of red and not to know it.

Regret was the ham in the back of the deli that caused people to switch from turkey to roast beef.

People did not choose between things. They chose between descriptions of things.

The Decision to Seed Hurricanes," a paper coauthored by Stanford professor Ron Howard.

When choosing between sure things and gambles, people's desire to avoid loss exceeded their desire to secure gain.

People regretted what they had done, and what they wished they hadn't done, far more than what they had not done and perhaps should have.

They were "risk averse." But what was this thing that everyone had been calling "risk aversion?" It amounted to a fee that people paid, willingly, to avoid regret: a regret premium.

How did a person decide how much sugar to put in his tea? Well, he had some notion of the ideal sweetness of tea; he sugared his tea until it most closely resembled that ideal.

There, a year later, at the age of thirteen, Danny made his final decision about God. "I still remember where I was—the street in Jerusalem. I remember thinking that I could imagine there was a God, but not one who cared whether or not I masturbate. I reached the conclusion that there was no God. That was the end of my religious life.

They were an invisible mob inside an ivory tower. The calls themselves irritated rather than informed her. "They'd do mental masturbation," said Charity. "Mental masturbation is actually an important concept. It's when you talk in circles for an hour and reach no decision.

Amos thought people paid an enormous price to avoid mild embarrassment," said his friend Avishai Margalit, "and he himself decided very early on it was not worth it.