Quotes on Decision

We choose what attitudes we have right now. And it's a continuing choice.

Educators take something simple and make it complicated. Communicators take something complicated and make it simple.

You are already leaders. Your ideas, your actions and your decisions make a difference. More than any other generation, you have a voice. Social networking is changing how we interact - and it can change our world. You are in touch with peers from around the world. You understand the power of instant communication. I appeal to you to use that power for the common good, the power of communication and the power of networking.

Every decision you make - every decision - is not a decision about what to do. It's a decision about Who You Are. When you see this, when you understand it, everything changes. You begin to see life in a new way. All events, occurrences, and situations turn into opportunities to do what you came here to do.

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.

That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.

The individual always realizes only one of the possibilities in his development, which could always have taken a different turning whenever he had to make an important decision.

If the whole world followed you, would you be pleased with where you took it?

Once you say 'I want to find Truth', all your life will be deeply affected by it. All your mental and physical habits, feelings and emotions, desires and fears, plans and decisions will undergo a most radical transformation.

A man who has depths in his shame meets his destiny and his delicate decisions upon paths which few ever reach . . .

Humility about how little I know has encouraged me to listen more carefully and more wisely.

True grit is making a decision and standing by it, doing what must be done.

The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions: kings and princes, priestly castes, military juntas, party dictatorships, or modern corporations.

Man improves himself as he follows his path; if he stands still, waiting to improve before he makes a decision, he'll never move.

One doesn't begin to be a Christian because of an ethical decision or a great idea, but rather because of an encounter with an event, with a Person, who gives new horizons to life, and with that, a decisive orientation.

Most women do not have [abortions] with some sort of party going on. It is the hardest decision that a woman ever has to make . . . One of the reasons we've had to make this decision is because so many women were found bleeding, dead, with hangers in their bodies because they were doing it themselves. The idea of this was to make it safe and clean - that was the reason the law came into effect.

There are two paths people can take. They can either play now and pay later, or pay now and play later. Regardless of the choice, one thing is certain. Life will demand a payment.

Energy may be likened to the bending of a crossbow; decision, to the releasing of a trigger.

I conclude that, while it is true that science cannot decide questions of value, that is because they cannot be intellectually decided at all, and lie outside the realm of truth and falsehood. Whatever knowledge is attainable, must be attained by scientific methods; and what science cannot discover, mankind cannot know.

The ultimate decision about what is accepted as right and wrong will be made not by individual human wisdom but by the disappearance of the groups that have adhered to the "wrong" beliefs.

All decisions in the artistic execution of the work rest with pure intuition and cannot be translated into a self-analysis.