Decision Quotes - Page 109

The warrior must continue to make decisions in the face of extreme circumstances. He cannot afford to get angry or frightened.

Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one's own tooth.

Your legacy is being written by yourself. Make the right decisions.

Least of all shall we preserve democracy or foster its growth if all the power and most of the important decisions rest with an organization far too big for the common man to survey or comprehend.

There is no such thing as completion. These are only stages in an endless progression. There are no final outcomes or decisions, since nothing ever stays the same.

Let no one say that taking action is hard. Action is aided by courage, by the moment, by impulse, and the hardest thing in the world is making a decision.

Impossible to see, the future is.

Prophecy and prescience - How can they be put to the test in the face of unanswered questions? Consider: How much is actual prediction and how much is the prophet shaping the future to fit the prophecy? What are the harmonics inherent in the act of prophecy? Does the prophet see the future or does he see a line of weakness, a fault or cleavage that he may shatter with words or decisions as a diamond-cutter shatters his gem with a blow of the knife?

Great Britain is not part of the euro-zone; but the decision we take will have great importance for Great Britain.

Once comics become your life, you have to make decisions on what you spend your time on.

A decision is the focusing of the Energy of desire, and the decision point happens when the desire is powerful enough.

So many policy decisions that effect musicians are being made without any input from musicians at all.

The individual citizen has very little possibility of having any influence - of making his opinion felt in the decision-making.

What we have in common is a mass men, a mass bureaucracy, and a manipulation of everyone to act smoothly, but with the illusion that he follows his own decisions and opinions.

Man is born as a freak of nature, being within nature and yet transcending it. He has to find principles of action and decision-making which replace the principles of instincts.

The sweetest part is acting after making a decision.

Good household decision-making often relies on thinking about your household like a firm.

To make decisions while infuriated is as unwise and foolish as it is for a captain to put out to sea in a raging storm.

Replace worry with prayer. Make the decision to pray whenever you catch yourself worrying.

An executive is one who makes an immediate decision and is sometimes right

I saw things that reached a point that I could no longer conscientiously participate with them. And I simply do what I could to allow the public to make a better decision about whether or not these things should continue.

I would argue that if you understand how the cells of the brain are organized into circuits, almost computational circuits if you will, and we see how information flows through those circuits and how it's transformed, we might have a much firmer grasp on why our brains make decisions the way that they do. If we get a handle on that, maybe we can overcome some of our limitations and at the very least we'll understand why we do what we do.

Prejudice is of ready application in the emergency; it previously engages the mind in a steady course of wisdom and virtue, and does not leave the man hesitating in the moment of decision, skeptical, puzzled and unresolved. Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit; and not a series of unconnected acts. Through past prejudice, his duty becomes part of his nature.

The simplest kind of decision is binary: that is, the question can be answered, in principle at least, by either yes or no.

Only losers make decisions when things are bad. The time to rejig your life is the time when it's seemingly smooth.