Quotes of: Decisions Keyword

He had made his decision. Later in life Ann would learn that when certain men made decisions no matter how much it might torture them afterwards they would stick with their decision. Men, she learned, would rather suffer than change their minds or th...

Evening

you must be careful never to allow doubt to paralyze you. always take the decisions you need to take, even if you're not sure you're doing the right thing. You'll never go wrong if, when you make a decision, you keep in mind an old German proverb: 'T...

Brida

Woodrow Wilson has just made the decision to take part in World War I. What was he feeling then? Did he know the possible outcomes of his decision? Did he feel the burden of American lives on his shoulders? He probably said something like: "Goddamn. ...

Stories and Poetry from the Beyond

Lacking a clear formula for making decisions, we get reactive and fall back on familiar, comfortable ways to decide what to do. Pinballing through our day like a confused character in a B-horror movie, we end up running up the stairs instead of out t...

The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results

The Supreme Court is composed of two groups known as the Infallible Five and the Furious Four. The first group writes those majority decisions on patent law that have brought patent lawyers to their present condition. The second groups writes the dis...

Leonard Lockhard

Sometimes, all that is required of us is to come to a decision, a decision which would determine our course thereafter, which is sudden, which is made in an instant and not out of introspection. Because the more we happen to brood, the more we burden...

Chirag Tulsiani

Fear and anxiety affect decision making in the direction of more caution and risk aversion. Traumatized individuals pay more attention to cues of threat than other experiences, and they interpret ambitious stimuli as threatening, leading to more fear...

Coping with Trauma-Related Dissociation: Skills Training for Patients and Therapists

If you obsess over whether you are making the right decision, you are basically assuming that the universe will reward you for one thing and punish you for another. The universe has no fixed agenda. Once you make any decision, it works around that de...

The Book of Secrets: Unlocking the Hidden Dimensions of Your Life

I was only able to get over my past when I decided I was going to! As I’ve discovered, that’s how everything starts. I decided to get out of bed this morning. I decided to get ready for work (D’oh! Another early morning). Everything I did today...

Watch Out! Godly Women on the Loose

A wise man takes his own decisions; the ignorant goes with the crowd.

Chinese

If you are resolute to go, I will not stop you. But I hope I’m making the right decision.

Destined for Oblivion: As Nature Intended

Decision is the wing that makes dreams to go and grow and flow and fly. No decision, no fulfilled destiny!

The Great Hand Book of Quotes

We must not confuse the command to love with the disease to please.

The Best Yes: Making Wise Decisions in the Midst of Endless Demands

I'm generally slow to anger, quick to forgive, and I take in information before making decisions. So no matter how controversial the decision, my general demeanour is to put on white lab coat and gloves and look at the evidence, weigh the arguments a...

Peter Blair Henry

If you let fear make decisions for you, fear will make good decisions - but only for its own sake, not yours. p. 161

The Pretend Wife

Of course our feelings matter. But emotional decisions are usually not the best ones. On the other hand, your emotions can affect your decisions whether you like it or not because the effects can occur on the unconscious level.

Leonard Mlodinow

Even though it was a start-up with fewer than 20 people, and I was pregnant with my first child, the best decision I've ever made was to join Google in 1999. Worst decision? Deciding to get a puppy and a bunny right when the baby came.

Susan Wojcicki

The decision as to whether to risk one’s actual life or to surrender the ideal self-conception is a decision about who one is. (from The structure of desire and recognition)

Robert B. Brandom

There's no wobble in Bush. If anything, the opposite. Right after hello, the next words out of his mouth are: I've never been more convinced that the decisions I made are the right decisions.

Rich Lowry

People feel they are not participating in the decision-making process. Decisions are exclusive to those at the very top. You have grown up with crony capitalism and it creates ever more resentment.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.

Thomas Sowell