Quotes About Decision

Leaving your future to pot luck is holding you back, you are worth more than anything, yet why do you leave everything to chance?

I've often been asked; how do you rob a bank? The answer to that is that there is no instruction book. The fact is you never know what will happen when you step through the door of a bank and declare yourself. Certainly, you can work hard on preparations; have everything organised from vehicles to weapons and set out the getaway, but there are no set rules.

We lose things. And then we choose things. And there are Louis's And there are Georges- Well, Louis's And George.

Stop worrying where you're going Move on If you can know where you're going You've gone Just keep moving on I chose, and my world was shaken So what? The choice may have been mistaken The choosing was not You have to move on

Is it always "or"? Is it never "and"?

I know what my decision is...Which is not to decide.

The past may dictate who we are, but we get to determine what we become.

Of course, often enough, the people in books are poor. But then they're so darn poor, it's crazy. And, often enough, just when everything's at its worst, some handy little legacy comes along and the new life opens out before them right away, like a great big tulip. Well, I only had one legacy in my life and I know what I did with that. It darn near ruined me.

G. W. Smith had failed Robert E. Lee's test for command in battle, and from that verdict there was no appeal.

We create ourselves by our choices. —Søren Kierkegaard

Here's what happens if one repeatedly "applies the model"—at each step adding the word that has the top probability (specified in this code as the "decision" from the model): What happens if one goes on longer? In this ("zero temperature") case what comes out soon gets rather confused and repetitive:

The right thing isn't always real obvious. Sometimes the right thing for one person is the wrong thing for someone else. So...good luck figuring that out.

Even if we all want you here, you don't belong until you decide you do.

I got down on my knees and prayed to Almighty God for guidance. And one night late it came to me: we could not give [the Philippines] back to Spain — that would be cowardly and dishonorable; we could not turn them over to France or Germany … that would be bad business; we could not leave them to themselves — they were unfit for self-government. There was nothing left for us to do but to take them all … then I went to bed and slept soundly.

Jonas had ended things with Terry Tanaka, not because he didn't care about her, but because he knew he was falling in love. Hers were the ties that kept him bound to the mission; their blossoming relationship would be his death knell.

Fear makes us do things we might never agree to do, doesn't it, my dear?

Follow your heart. It rarely leads you astray. It's thinking that gets us into trouble.

There are no optimistic or pessimistic personalities. There are only single, individual choices for optimistic or pessimistic thoughts.

Pervez Musharraf forced I.S.I. director-general Mahmud Ahmed to retire about two hours before the American war began. He did not explain his decision. As to the way ahead, Musharraf told the Americans what they wanted to hear: He was going to "clean up" I.S.I. He appointed Lieutenant General Ehsan ul-Haq as his new spy chief.

I had imagined it this way: find a caring breeder, choose the perfect, healthy pup, frame the pedigree, and live happily ever after. I hadn't planned on making a snap decision beside the road with giant dogs and dead deer and caffeinated truckers and ganja fields and boyish rangers and sweet gypsy eyes looking up at me, wondering when we'd be going home.

America One," came Wade's voice from the big shadow, "or America Two?

So there it was. My big lesson of the day, something I'd take with me and never forget. The whole legal system – if you think it's just a big set of rules, you're dead wrong. It's really a bunch of people sitting around and talking to each other, deciding what they want to do with you. When they make their decision, then they pull out whatever rule they need to make it happen.

said. "Now that he's found me again. Or he'd come himself. . . ." "Maria, why don't you just sign away the full partnership money? Tell him you'll take the twenty percent and forfeit the rest?" She looked at me. "You could stop running," I said. "I don't know," she said. "Maybe

This isn't freedom. This is mobility. Don't get those two things confused.