Quotes About Decision

But this inertia often causes you to use a tool because you know it, rather than because it's the right tool.

Of course I already know the best thing to do, but it'll have to wait a little while longer. I'm still convinced I can get my own way. —Best Thing

It's not that I'm not serious, he said. I just don't think of it as a career like the rest of them. —Serious Decision

I've got three days available in July next year, she said. So, are we going to do this thing or not? —Calendar Girl

If you speak, you die. If you keep quiet, you die. So, speak and die.

Han made a sour face. "I happen to like to shoot first, Rekkon. As opposed to shooting second.

Never give way to desire, over logic. It's the recipe for disaster.

At any given point in the life of a project, the only two things that matter are the amount of effort and resources required to complete the project, and the present value of the cash flows that the project will generate. As harsh as this may seem, the energy and effort already invested in the project are irrelevant. Goals and strategies change, and sometimes the most prudent course of action is to cut your losses and to move on to more value-creating projects.

If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big hurdle to jump over. You never forget the thought process you went through. It becomes part of your whole intellectual picture.

I had some information and some noise, and needed only to determine what was information and what was noise, and then determine which parts of me I should ignore and which I should listen to.

Of course there's another choice, he thought. There is always another choice. I'm just not going to take it.

It's about how we're all part of an infinite number of parallel worlds. Every time we make a choice, a carbon copy of ourselves makes the opposite choice in a different universe.

What chances are you willing to take to get what you want? What dangers do your choices create for other people?

You see, there are moments in your life you are desperate to take back as soon as they happen, but the clock ticks, and they're gone. You make your choice, and an instant later, nothing is the same.

but we were both pretty drunk, so we figured we'd leave before we threw up. I dropped her off here.

He turned to the startled king, still kneeling on the floor stunned. He threw the sword clanging onto the floor by Saul. "That is what you should have done." Saul was speechless. Samuel said, "I am going to Ramah. Our paths shall never cross again — this side of Sheol." Samuel left.

The most common type of race condition is check-then-act, where a potentially stale observation is used to make a decision on what to do next. [4]

With the heart at stake, right and wrong is a stake through the heart.

Men have two brains in constant warfare over the body's blood supply. When one wins, the other shuts down.

THERE ARE times in life when the wrong thing to do is actually the right thing to do. Maybe vice versa, too. I don't know. I haven't gotten around to testing that theory yet.

When I see a nail, I reach for a hammer. They study the nail and obsess over whether it might actually be, or could possibly be turned into, a bolt or a screw, and then they try playing mind games. As often as not, the nail screws them.

Something you need most might be something you turn away from, something you turn away from might be something you regret, and something you regret, in the end, might cost you the one chance you ever had.

You can only make choices for yourself. You can offer to help others find their way, but it is their decision if they will accept your help. You cannot force them to accept, even if you are in the right.

Olem disappeared into the grove with Vlora and came back a moment later, alone. "Well?" Tamas asked. "She's objecting strenuously to the deal." "Would she rather go back with them?" "That's what she says." "I never wanted daughters, Olem. You can quote me on that.