Decisions Quotes - Page 2

The mania of thinking renders one unfit for every activity.

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.

William B. Given

We spend our days in deliberating and we end them without coming to any resolve.

If you think too long you think wrong.

Jim Kaat

The soul of dispatch is decision.

William Hazlitt

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

Some persons are very decisive when it comes to avoiding decisions.

Brendan Francis

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.

Better to be without logic than without feeling.

Charlotte Brontë

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.

Roger M. Blough

Imagination took the reins and Reason slow-paced though surefooted was unequal to a race with so eccentric and flighty a companion.

Many persons of high intelligence have notoriously poor judgement.

Sydney J. Harris

How dangerous can false reasoning prove!

Sophocles

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.

Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.

Joseph Wood Krutch

Reason with most people means their own opinions.

William Hazlitt

Logic pervades the world the limits of the world are also the limits of logic.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

Alexander Hamilton

False conclusions which have been reasoned out are infinitely worse than blind impulse.

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.

Dr. Logain Clendening

It is the heart always that sees before the head can see.

Facts are stubborn things but statistics are more pliable.

Laurence J. Peter

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.

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge fitter to bruise than to polish.

Anne Bradstreet

One faces the future with one's past.

Our deeds still travel with us from afar and what we have been makes us what we are.

You must not change one thing one pebble one grain of sand until you know what good and evil will follow on that act.

Ursula K. LeGuin

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

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.

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

There is no data on the future.

The most important fact about Spaceship Earth: an instruction book didn't come with it.

R. Buckminster Fuller

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.

Time has told me less than I need to know.

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.

When faith is supported by facts or by logic it ceases to be faith.

How far would Moses have gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt?

Harry S. Truman

One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.

Arthur Christopher Benson

Not all of your decisions will be correct. None of us is perfect. But if you get into the habit of making decisions experience will develop your judgment to a point where more and more of your decisions will be right. After all it is better to be right 51 percent of the time and get something done than it is to get nothing done because you fear to reach a decision.

Decide on what you think is right and stick to it.

Continually one faces the horrible matter of making decisions. The solution ... is as far as possible to avoid conscious rational decisions and choices simply to do what you find yourself doing to float in the great current of life with as little friction as possible to allow things to settle themselves as indeed they do with the most infallible certainty.

Christopher Morley

When making a decision of minor importance I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters however such as the choice of a mate or a profession the decision should come from the unconscious from somewhere within ourselves. In the important decisions of personal life we should be governed I think by the deep inner needs of our nature.

Pick battles big enough to matter small enough to win.

Wisdom consists in being able to distinguish among dangers and make a choice of the least harmful.

Niccolò Machiavelli

I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst take the risk.

Dr. Joyce Brothers

Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.

Charles Caleb Colton

When one bases his life on principle 99 percent of his decisions are already made.

Anonymous

The best we can do is size up the chances calculate the risks involved estimate our ability to deal with them and then make our plans with confidence.

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.

People "died" all the time. ... Parts of them died when they made the wrong kinds of decisions-decisions against life. Sometimes they died bit by bit until finally they were just living corpses walking around. If you were perceptive you could see it in their eyes the fire had gone out ... you always knew when you made a decision against life. ... The door clicked and you were safe inside- safe and dead.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

What I emphasize is for people to make choices based not on fear but on what really gives them a sense of fulfillment.

Pauline Rose Chance

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.

Bill W.

History is a stern judge.

Svetlana Alliluyeva

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

You wouldn't want to be caught wearing cheap perfume would you? Then why do you want to wear cheap perfume on your conduct?

Margaret Culkin Banning

The difference between weakness and wickedness is much less than people suppose and the consequences are nearly always the same.

Lady Marguerite Blessington

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