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Quotes About Decision

No one does anything from a single motive.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I did a deal with my parents to take a year out before university at the end of 1992 to try and forge a career in motor sport. I still haven't gone. I left school at 18 and that was it.
~ Christian Horner
Eventually, I grew out of my interest in motorcycles because they're quite dangerous. I don't ride them anymore. But I have this history.
~ Rachel Kushner
the question is not so much whether they are guilty as whether we are making the right decision for ourselves.
~ Thucydides
Make up your minds, therefore, to pay them back in their own coin, and do not make it look as though you who escape their machinations are less quick to react than they who started them.
~ Thucydides
Athenians having made up their minds to abandon their city, broke up their homes, threw themselves into their ships, and became a naval people.
~ Thucydides
To be hated and to cause pain is, at present, the reality for anyone who takes on the rule of others, and anyone who makes himself hated for matters of great consequence has made the right decision; for hatred does not last long, but the momentary brilliance of great actions lives on as a glory that will be remembered forever after. - Pericles
~ Thucydides
La economía tiene que ver con la decisión de Yang Li.
~ Tim Harford
their mistakes. Most individuals suffer from the same problem. Accepting trial and error means accepting error. It means taking problems in our stride when a decision doesn't work out, whether through luck or misjudgement. And that is not something human brains seem to be able to do without a struggle. 9
~ Tim Harford
We are glad you didn't follow our advice.
~ Tim Harford
purchase of the long-distance ticket would contribute to the airline's decision about how many future flights it should run on this route. Unless bus routes are entirely insensitive to passenger demand – which is, one must admit, a possibility – then the same argument applies to
~ Tim Harford
What would you do? Would you jump? Would you feel pity for yourself? Would you think about your family and your childhood and your dreams and all you're leaving behind? Would it hurt? Would it feel like dying? Would you cry, as I did?
~ Tim O'Brien
In a way I wanted to stop myself. It was cruel, I knew that, but right and wrong were somewhere else.
~ Tim O'Brien
Once we determined that the money was intact, the plan was simply to buy the house. I am a lawyer, and brought with me more than
~ Tim Shaw
The only end some things have is the end you give em.
~ Tim Winton
It's having the choices that kills a man. It's the best and the worst. You get to choose and you get to regret. Almost guaranteed to bugger it up. And sometimes not.
~ Tim Winton
politics is then basically an act of will, not of reason.
~ Timothy Sandefur
One is born with a unique set of talents and abilities. One must choose which of those talents to nurture, which to set aside for a time, which to ignore completely. Sometimes
~ Timothy Zahn
I had a plan, all right, ... I was also pretty sure no one on my list of allies was going to like it.
~ Timothy Zahn
Hang on a minute, Mara said, stepping away from the viewport and her tantalizingly brief vision of the future. As Luke had said, this was the present. The future would take care of itself. I'll come with you.
~ Timothy Zahn
But Lando was a gambler. A true gambler never folded when he still had cards left to play.
~ Timothy Zahn
The one truism in all politics is that loud voices will be raised against any decision that is made.
~ Timothy Zahn
One is born with a unique set of talents and abilities. One must choose which of those talents to nurture, which to set aside for a time, which to ignore completely.
~ Timothy Zahn
Creo que nadie se mete en una guerra sin tener la incómoda sensación de que las cosas habrían podido solucionarse de otra manera, a pesar de que esa otra manera se haya probado y fallado.
~ Timothy Zahn