Quotes About Decision-making

Who chooses the schedules we keep? We do, I guess.

Again, I feel the tug-of-war between my own feelings and the hopes and plans my family has always held for me. The plans I always thought I held for myself.

Is my name V? No... Then why would I follow U?

Well, on lots of small things we could have done better, but on all the big things we called it right. You should make less mistakes as you get older, and I became a councilor back in 1971, so if by this stage in politics I'm making lots of big mistakes, then I shouldn't be here.

purpose. We have a purpose in this life, and every minute we can make bad choices or good ones. Today I feel I've made a good one." She smiled at the rabbi, who smiled encouragingly back.

I plucked the shower gel I used this morning from the grocery store shelf for no discernible reason. Why that shower gel? Was it because it had shea butter in it—do I even know what shea butter is?—or was it because it promised to make me feel younger, more refreshed, or softer to the touch? Was it because the packaging was simple and clean or was it because I was rushing through the store and just needed some G.D. shower gel?

I'll never have a baby because I'm afraid I'll leave it on top of my car.

There is no surer road to perdition than the ledger glands dictate your direction.

Remember, consensus is not a decision-making strategy. In fact, it is the opposite. It's a technique to avoid making difficult choices.

For it is in the field where meaning is constitutive that man's freedom reaches its highest point. There too his responsibility is greatest. There there occurs the emergence of his existential subject, finding out for himself that he has to decide for himself what he is to make of himself.

I only do what my gut tells me to. I think it's smart to listen to other people's advice, but at the end of the day, you're the only one who can tell you what's right for you.

Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.

Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you.

If the queen had balls, she'd be the king." If you go through life picking and choosing, if you don't recognize that "the perfect is the enemy of the good," you may deprive yourself of joy. At first patients are taken aback by my bluntness,

If you go through life picking and choosing, if you don't recognize that "the perfect is the enemy of the good," you may deprive yourself of joy.

There is a continuing decision to be made as to whether to evade pain, or to tolerate it and therefore modify it.

Behind my questions lies the assumption that Wendell is a more competent human being than I am. Sometimes I wonder, Who am I to make the important decisions in my own life? Am I really qualified for this?

If you go through life picking and choosing, if you don't recognize that "the perfect is the enemy of the good,

I told Greenwald that I didn't consider these factors when I was ten years younger and waiting for just the right guy to pop into my life. It seemed reasonable to think that the longer I searched, the better the guy I'd end up with. But it's faulty logic, she said: The longer you wait, the less likely you are to find someone better than you've already met.

This was the next phase of her life and from now on, she wasn't going to take any rubbish from anyone. From now on she was going to decide what she wanted and go for it.

I've given up men. It's true. At first, I was just going to give up attorneys, but that seemed immature - and far too exclusive, so I'm playing it safe and giving up all the penis-carrying humans.

If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base.   —Dave Barry

You need the discipline to say "no" to the extra clutter in your life so that you can say "yes" to the most important things with a good attitude. Not

You need to know where to go, Sanya said. Yes. And you are going to consult four large pizzas for guidance. Yes, I said. The big man frowned for a moment. Then he said, There is, I think, humor here which does not translate well from English into sanity.