Decision Quotes - Page 31

I realize that the decision might be simple. It will require a great act of selflessness to choose Abnegation, or a great act of courage to choose Dauntless, and maybe just choosing one over the other will prove that I belong.

All change is nothing but a decision. All decisions are controlled by what we link to pain and pleasure.

It's your decisions, not your conditions, which shape your life.

I've always been more comfortable making my decisions from the subconscious level, or more emotionally, because I find it is more truthful to me; Intellectually, I don't think like that because I get uncomfortable.

Being a writer is so great because you're literally not dependent on anybody. Whereas, as an actor, you have to audition or wait for somebody else to make a decision about how to use you, with writing, you can do it anywhere, anytime you want. You don't have to ask permission.

When you can't solve the problem, manage it.

Your deepest, darkest sins and your shameful secrets are simply irrelevant when it comes to the counterintuitive, ecstatic announcement of the gospel. So are your goodness, your rightness, your church attendance, and all of the wise, moral, mature decisions you have made and actions you have taken.

Reason bases its decisions on evidence available to everyone, and allows people to disagree when evidence is lacking. Religion will never do that.

If you add up all the federal and you look at the disability and the unemployment and the Social Security and the state, my tax rate's 62, 63 percent. So I've got to make some decisions on what I'm going to do.

No decision has been made unless carrying it out in specific steps has become someone's work assignment and responsibility.

Whenever we need to make a very important decision it is best to trust our instincts, because reason usually tries to remove us from our dream, saying that the time is not yet right. Reason is afraid of defeat, but intuition enjoys life and its challenges.

Eternal life is not a gift from God; eternal life is the gift of God. The energy and the power which was so very evident in Jesus will be exhibited in us by an act of the absolute sovereign grace of God, once we have made that complete and effective decision about sin. We have to keep letting go, and slowly, but surely, the great full life of God will invade us, penetrating every part.

To wish for change will change nothing; To make the decision to take action right now will change everything.

The man of decision cannot be stopped! The man of indecision cannot be started! Take your own choice.

More errors arise from inhibited indecision than from impulsive behavior.

Damned indecision and cursed pride.

I do not necessarily support the president's decision.

The decision to speak out is the vocation and lifelong peril by which the intellectual must live.

The open society is one in which men have learned to be to some extent critical of taboos, and to base decisions on the authority of their own intelligence.

It's everyone's own decision to [be gay]. It doesn't affect me and shouldn't affect anyone else.

Strictly speaking, we do not make decisions. Decisions make us.

God's grace and mercy are bigger than the biggest challenge we may face today and the worst decision we might make today.

No great marketing decisions have ever been made on qualitative data

So one way to create an attractive risk/reward situation is to limit downside risk severely by investing in situations that have a large margin of safety. The upside, while still difficult to quantify, will usually take care of itself. In other words, look down, not up, when making your initial investment decision. If you don’t lose money, most of the remaining alternatives are good ones.

Being successful is a choice and, therefore, being defeated is a decision.