~ Decisions Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Decisions particularly important ones have always made me sleepy perhaps because I know that I will have to make them by instinct and thinking things out is only what other people tell me I should do.

Lillian Hellman

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]The moment a question comes to your mind see yourself mentally taking hold of it and disposing of it. In that moment... you learn to become the decider and not the vacillator. Thus you build character.

H. Van Anderson

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation and without being allowed the preliminary trials the failures and botches that are essential for the training of a mere beginner.

Lewis Mumford

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Each person has a literature inside them. But when people lose language when they have to experiment with putting their thoughts together on the spot-that's what I love most. That's where character lives.

Anna Deavere Smith

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]I would sort out all the arguments and see which belonged to fear and which to creativeness. Other things being equal I would make the decision which had the larger number of creative reasons on its side.

Katharine Butler Hathaway

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Of all paths a man could strike into there is at any given moment a best path which here and now it were of all things wisest for him to do. To find this path and walk in it is the one thing needful for him.

Thomas Carlyle

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Every great decision creates ripples - like a huge boulder dropped in a lake. The ripples merge rebound off the banks in unforseeable ways. The heavier the decision the larger the waves the more uncertain the consequences.

Benjamin Disraeli

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]You decide you'll wait for your pitch. Then as the ball starts toward the plate you think about your stance. And then you think about your swing. And then you realize that the ball that went past you for a strike was your pitch.

Bobby Murcer

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]I get a little angry about this highhanded scrapping of the look of things. What else have we to go by? How else can the average person form an opinion of a girl's sense of values or even of her chastity except by the looks of her conduct?

Margaret Culkin Banning

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]There comes a time when you've got to say 'Let's get off our asses and go ...' I have always found that if I move with 75 percent or more of the facts I usually never regret it. It's the guys who wait to have everything perfect that drive you crazy.

Lee Iacocca

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That's the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision turn off all your fears and go ahead.

George S. Patton

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]In forty hours I shall be in battle with little information and on the spur of the moment will have to make the most momentous decisions. But I believe that one's spirit enlarges with responsibility and that with God's help I shall make them and make them right.

George S. Patton

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]When we are debating an issue loyalty means giving me your honest opinion whether you think I'll like it or not. Disagreement at this stage stimulates me. But once a decision has been made the debate ends. From that point on loyalty means executing the decision as if it were your own.

Colin Powell

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and inexcusable traitor both to yourself and to your country let men label you as they may.

Mark Twain