Quotes About Decision

Probably many people's vision of "thinking something through" is of this nature: you do precisely what you want to do—if you can.

Rien n'est jamais clair car nous disposons tous d'un éventail de moi parmi lesquels choisir.

Though finally the worst thing about regret is that it makes you duck the chance of suffering new regret just as you get a glimmer that nothing's worth doing unless it has the potential to fuck up your whole life. A

Be sure you're not completely wrong, then go ahead.

Just as no building lacks an architecture, so no choice lacks a context.

Moral: to the extent you can choose, work on problems you think will be important.

Behind every calculation, every decision, every signal, every turn of the helm, was the deeply held conviction that the disaster of defeat must always be greater than the rewards of victory. The belief that governed all the tactical moves at this one confused melee was that the individual Dreadnought, the squadron, the fleet must be preserved, even at the cost of victory over the foe.

If Jellicoe had suffered overwhelming defeat, nothing could have saved the Allies. As Churchill confirmed, he was "the one man who could have lost the war in an afternoon.

Choose your feelings as you would a weapon. This is what it is to be Majak.

Or maybe that was just the swiftly gathering sense of motion that had me now, the drug-like grip of a decision taken and what it meant.

War is like any other bad relationship. Of course you want out, but at what price? And perhaps more importantly, once you get out, will you be any better off? QUELLCRIST FALCONER Campaign Diaries

Understand that WHAT must come before the HOW. First choose WHAT you would do. The HOW usually falls into place of itself.

Optimism is a practiced choice.

Primeiro, escolha o que gostaria de fazer. O como geralmente irá se alinhar.

I don't think I'll be getting married. - Cat

And Lizzie! Still here? Not run off after your handsome rebel lord yet?... What's wrong with you, girl? At your age, I would've thrown off the parental shackles and hopped on the first boat to America to see him.' 'Perhaps I'm rebelling against the parental shackles by not doing as you say, Mama.

In every life there is a turning point. A moment so tremendous, so sharp and clear that one feels as if one's been hit in the chest, all the breath knocked out, and one knows, absolutely knows without the merest hint of a shadow of a doubt that one's life will never be the same.

Would you rather love the more, and suffer the more; or love the less, and suffer the less? That is, I think, finally, the only real question.

If a man cannot tell what he wants to do, then he must find out what he ought to do. If desire has become complicated, then hold fast to duty.

Did you leave me because of me? No, she said. I left you because of us.

and who's to say what would have been for the best? You only found out afterwards, when it was too late.

He thought logically, and then acted on the conclusion of logical thought. Whereas most of us, I suspect, do the opposite: we make an instinctive decision, then build up an infrastructure of reasoning to justify it.

But he was a connoisseur of the if-only, and so they did travel. They travelled in the past-conditional.

between the principle and its implementation often lay some anguish.