Quotes About Decision-making

Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

He who lets the world choose his plan of life for him has need of no other faculty than that of ape-like imitation.

I will follow my logic, no matter where it goes, after it has consulted with my heart. If you ever come to a conclusion without calling the heart in, you will come to a bad conclusion.

Don't take my advice. Or anyone's advice. Trust yourself. For good or for bad, happy or unhappy, it's your life, and what you do with it has always been entirely up to you.

Anything less than a conscious commitment to the important is an unconscious commitment to the unimportant.

To me, it's obvious that the winner has to bet very selectively. It's been obvious to me since very early in life. I don't know why it's not obvious to very many other people.

I have never played the lottery in my life and never will. Voltaire described lotteries as a tax on stupidity. More specifically, I think, on innumeracy.

Out of the ­10,000 news stories you may have read in the last 12 months, did even one allow you to make a better decision about a serious matter in your life?

Joy is a decision, a really brave one, about how you are going to respond to life.

Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.

Every action we take has consequences, Vin," Kelsier said. "I've found that in both Allomancy and life, the person who can best judge the consequences of their actions will be the most successful.

Coping with the demands of everyday life would be exceedingly trying if one could arrive at solutions to problems only by actually performing possible options and suffering the consequences.

You need to learn to live with your mistakes. And you need to be in a position to say No once in a while. It's important in life, and it's important for any career that you want to pursue.

I really haven't made up my mind yet. A lot of people have encouraged me to consider running, and others have cautioned against it, saying it's a good way to ruin your life.

I pick what are my priorities and I limit those priorities to less than five in my life and really in those particular areas put in the energy to try to make good choices.

The enemy of the "best" is often the "good."

I have simply tried to do what seemed best each day, as each day came.

Life-complication Theory: Given a choice between an easy solution and a complicated one, the loser will usually opt to travel the complicated path. Don't ignore a solution just because it's simple!

We shouldn't ignore any guidance that comes from the mind - we should listen to our minds AND balance mental messages with intuitive messages. We need both to navigate our way through life.

Our character is but the stamp on our souls of the free choices of good and evil we have made through life.

How you handle life depends a lot on how you handle plan B, or if you have a plan B.

Always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. Walt Disney Every decision you make is a mistake.

Either you set your goals and, in doing so, have your life governed by choice or you do nothing and have your life governed by chance.

I've always been able to decide what was more important at different points in my life, but I never gave up personal things to work, never.