Quotes About Decision

In altre parole, uno degli scopi fondamentali delle emozioni è fornirci una scala di valori, in modo da poter scegliere che cosa è importante, costoso, bello o prezioso. In assenza di emozioni tutto ci sembrerebbe uguale, quindi ci ritroveremmo nella situazione paralizzante di non riuscire a compiere una scelta. Gli scienziati stanno quindi cominciando a capire che le emozioni, lungi dall'essere un lusso, sono uno dei fondamenti dell'intelligenza.

El destino no es cuestión de azar; es cuestión de elección. No es algo que hay que esperar; es algo que hay que conseguir. WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

El poder de decisión le llega al hombre cuando ya no le hace falta para nada; cuando ni un solo día puede dejar de guiar un carro o picar piedra si no quiere quedarse sin comer. ¿Para qué valía, entonces, la capacidad de decisión de un hombre, si puede saberse? La vida era el peor tirano conocido.

Él todavía estaba en condiciones de decidir, pero como solamente tenía 11 años, era su padre quien decidía por él. ¿Por qué, Señor, por qué el mundo se organizaba tan rematadamente mal?

Why not get what you want? Why pretend to make someone fit what she is not? It doesn't mean you don't love her. It means you make a choice and say yes or no, because you love yourself also. You make a choice, and you are responsible for your choices. Then if the choices are not working well, you do not blame yourself. You simply make another choice.

It's a different kind of mind that looks inward and perceives the need to fight a battle against its own long-held beliefs and judgments. It's a rare mind that looks, sees, and then decides to wage this war—the last war.

Al ver lo apegados que estamos a una creencia o idea en concreto, recuperamos algo muy importante: la capacidad de elegir, de decir sí o no una y otra vez.

The difference is that you are no longer innocent. When you were a child this was not true; you didn't have a choice. But you are no longer a child. Now it's up to you to choose what to believe and what not to believe. You can choose to believe in anything, and that includes believing in yourself.

Now it's up to you to choose what to believe and what not to believe. You can choose to believe in anything, and that includes believing in yourself. T

La felicidad, igual que el sufrimiento, es una elección.

Life is full of choices," Miguel said sweetly. "Do you want to choose unhappiness?

Jika kau membunuh kerbau, kau tidak akan memerah susunya setelah itu - Zulaika

But when the choice is between doing nothing and doing harm, surely nothing is the wiser option?

We'd be fools not to.

volitionally

She could worry about it, do it, or not do it.

Yes, man is mortal, but that would be only half the trouble. The worst of it is that he's sometimes unexpectedly mortal—there's the trick! And generally he's unable to say what he's going to do this same evening.

The time had come to act, to drink the bitter cup of responsibility.

Wtedy wreszcie zrozumiano, ?e nale?y si? rzuci? na Iwana, i rzucono si? na niego.

Why, when all's said and done, do I have to think up a pretext for my every action? I mean, it really is torment, not a life!

Hell, why should I have to find a pretext for every single thing I do?

Sometimes you make up your mind about something without knowing why, and your decision persists by the power of inertia. Every year it gets harder to change.

To die; to decide to die; that's much easier for an adolescent than for an adult. What? Doesn't death strip an adolescent of a far larger portion of future? Certainly it does, but for a young person, the future is a remote, abstract, unreal thing he doesn't really believe in.

It was vertigo. A heady, insuperable longing to fall. We might also call vertigo the intoxication of the weak. Aware of his weakness, a man decides to give in rather than stand up to it. He is drunk with weakness, wishes to grow even weaker, wishes to fall down in the middle of the main square in front of everybody, wishes to be down, lower than down. -Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, p. 76