English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

Decisive Quotes (page 34)

Addictions [...] started out like magical pets, pocket monsters. They did extraordinary tricks, showed you things you hadn't seen, were fun. But came, through some gradual dire alchemy, to make decisions for you. Eventually, they were making your most crucial life-decisions. And they were [...] less intelligent than goldfish. William Gibson
My friend Terry says that when you need to make a decision, in your work or otherwise, and you don’t know what to do, just do one thing or the other, because the worst that can happen is that you will have made a terrible mistake. Anne Lamott
What, unless biological science is a mass of errors, is the cause of human intelligence and vigour? Hardship and freedom: conditions under which the active, strong, and subtle survive and the weaker go to the wall; conditions that put a premium upon the loyal alliance of capable men, upon self-restraint, patience, and decision. And the institution of the family, and the emotions that arise therein, the fierce jealousy, the tenderness for offspring, parental self-devotion, all found their... H. G. Wells
George W. Bush quote: "My job is a decision-making job, and as a result, I make a lot..."
My job is a decision-making job, and as a result, I make a lot of decisions. George W. Bush
The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter. Malcolm Gladwell
And he knew that at that moment, they understood each other perfectly, and when he told her what he was going to do now, she would not say ‘be careful’ or ‘don’t do it’, but she would accept his decision because she would not have expected anything less of him. J. K. Rowling
Richard Bach quote: "Having made the decision to love, had I chosen life instead of..."
Having made the decision to love, had I chosen life instead of death? Richard Bach
He was another person, despite his firm decision and anguished effort to continue to be the same man he had been before his mortal encounter with love. The truth is that he was never the same again. Winning back Fermina Daza was the sole purpose of his life Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Margaret Atwood quote: "She'd stepped out of sex as if out of a loose dress. Now she..."
She'd stepped out of sex as if out of a loose dress. Now she was brisk, decisive, no nonsense. Margaret Atwood
Michel de Montaigne quote: "If I had even the slightest grasp upon my own faculties, I..."
If I had even the slightest grasp upon my own faculties, I would not make essays, I would make decisions. Michel de Montaigne
Father, make of me a crisis man. Bring those I contact to decision. Let me not be a milepost on a single road; make me a fork, that men must turn one way or another on facing Christ in me. Jim Elliot
You have to understand that in a person's life there are a few precious moments in which decisions, choices that you make now, will affect you for the rest of your life. Dave Pelzer
Michael J. Fox quote: "Happiness is a decision."
Happiness is a decision. Michael J. Fox
Let them see that you trust them & let them solve their own problems, make their own decisions. Do that & they will commit their lives to you. Bully the, control them out of fear or malice or just for your own convenience, & after a while you'll have to spend all your time thinking for them, controlling them, & stifling their resentment. pg 73 Octavia Butler
Christopher Hitchens quote: "It would not be an exaggeration to say that the land question..."
It would not be an exaggeration to say that the land question in Zimbabwe is the single most decisive one. Christopher Hitchens

Popular Topics

Popular Author