Decisions Quotes
What I emphasize is for people to make choices based not on fear but on what really gives them a sense of fulfillment.
We lose the fear of making decisions great and small as we realize that should our choice prove wrong we can if we will learn from the experience.
You wouldn't want to be caught wearing cheap perfume would you? Then why do you want to wear cheap perfume on your conduct?
The difference between weakness and wickedness is much less than people suppose and the consequences are nearly always the same.
Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge fitter to bruise than to polish.
You must not change one thing one pebble one grain of sand until you know what good and evil will follow on that act.
The Pilgrims didn't have any experience when they landed here. Hell if experience was that important we'd never have anybody walking on the moon.
Every year if not every day we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge.
A decision is an action you must take when you have information so incomplete that the answer does not suggest itself.
She knew in her heart that to be without optimism that core of reasonless hope in the spirit rather than the brain was a fatal flaw the seed of death.
The will to be totally rational is the will to be made out of glass and steel: and to use others as if they were glass and steel.
In the three years I played ball we won six lost seventeen and tied two. Some statistician ... calculated that we won 75 percent of the games we didn't lose.
Imagination took the reins and Reason slow-paced though surefooted was unequal to a race with so eccentric and flighty a companion.
The tendency of modern science is to reduce proof to absurdity by continually reducing absurdity to proof.
Say you were standing with one foot in the oven and one foot in an ice bucket. According to the percentage people you would be perfectly comfortable.
If you do everything you should do and do not do anything you should not do you will according to the best available statistics live exactly eighteen hours longer than you would otherwise.
A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the result of sudden impulse and accident than of that reason of which we so much boast.
It is always thus impaled by a state of mind which is destined not to last that we make our irrevocable decisions.
The percentage of mistakes in quick decisions is no greater than in long-drawn-out vacillations and the effect of decisiveness itself "makes things go" and creates confidence.
When possible make the decisions now even if action is in the future. A revised decision usually is better than one reached at the last moment.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances nor the best opportunities they will never come.
Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing.
Common sense does not ask an impossible chessboard but takes the one before it and plays the game.
If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.
The more one does and sees and feels the more one is able to do and the more genuine may be one's own appreciation of fundamental things like home and love and understanding companionship.
Our danger is not too few but too many options ... to be puzzled by innumerable alternatives.
I couldn't claim that I have never felt the urge to explore evil but when you descend into hell you have to be very careful.
If decisions were a choice between alternatives decisions would come easy. Decision is the selection and formulation of alternatives.
