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Nothing
is more difficult, and
therefore more precious,
than to be able to decide.
Napoleon Bonaparte |
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Every
decision that you make either moves you toward your personality, or
toward your soul. Each decision you make is an answer to the
question,
"How do you choose to learn love?", "How do
you choose to learn authentic empowerment-- through doubt and fear,
or through wisdom?"
Gary
Zukav
There
may be no trumpet sound or loud applause when we make a right
decision, just a calm sense of resolution and peace.
Gloria Gaither
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In
any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is
the right thing. The worst thing you can do is
nothing.
Theodore Roosevelt |
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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.
Sigmund Freud
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Half
the worry in the world is caused by people
trying to make decisions before they have sufficient
knowledge on which to base a decision.
Dean Hawkes
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More than anything else, I
believe it's our decisions, not
the conditions of our lives, that determine our destiny.
Anthony Robbins
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The
truth is that many people set rules to keep from making decisions.
Mike Krzyzewski
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My
basic principle is
that you don't make
decisions because
they
are cheap; you make
them because they're right.
Theodore Hesburgh
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Living is
a constant
process of deciding what
we are going to do.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
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In
arriving at a decision in a question of doubt, the apostles
in the Acts were guided solely by their sense of the Spirit behind
the action, not by any speculations as to consequences which
might ensue. And so they found the truth.
Roland Allen
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Indecision
is debilitating; it feeds upon itself; it is, one might
almost say, habit-forming. Not only that, but it is contagious;
it transmits itself to others.
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Every
decision-making conversation has three hidden conversations lurking
just out of sight. One is about what we’re trying to
accomplish by even
bothering to make a decision. After all, we could just let
things fall
where they may. The second conversation is about the criteria
we’ll use
to make the decision. The last conversation is about finding
and
choosing between different options.
Steve Robbins
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It doesn't matter which side of the fence you
get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You
cannot make progress without making decisions.
Jim Rohn |
Be willing to make
decisions. That's the most important quality in a good
leader.
George S. Patton |
Decide promptly, but never
give any reasons. Your decisions may be right, but your
reasons are sure to be wrong.
Lord Mansfield |
Make decisions from the
heart and use your head to make it work out.
Sir Girad |
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Until
you are committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back,
ineffectiveness. It is true: the moment one definitely commits
oneself,
then Providence moves. All sorts of things begin to happen to help
you
that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events
issues from that decision, raising in your favor all manner of
unforeseen
incidents, meetings and material assistance, which you couldn't
have dreamt would come your way.
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You are now at
a crossroads. This is your opportunity to make the most
important decision you will ever make. Forget your past.
Who are you
now? Who have you decided you really are now? Don't
think about who
you have been. Who are you now? Who have you decided to
become?
Make this decision consciously. Make it carefully. Make
it powerfully.
Anthony Robbins
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Few
people know this, but any decision is acceptable when you can't
decide.
The trick is to make the decision right because you made
it. In other words,
when you are torn between two roads, pick one and then make the one
you
picked right. In the grand scheme of things, it doesn't
matter. If you can't
see down the road enough to know which decision to make, then no one
can
fault you for making a decision. Of course, in a pinch, you
could always flip a coin.
Joe Vitale
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Never
cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative
decision in the low time. Never make your most important
decisions
when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient.
The storm will pass. The spring will come.
Robert H. Schuller |
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A
rule of thumb for a warrior is that he makes his decisions so
carefully
that nothing that may happen as a result of them can surprise
him, much less drain his power.
Carlos Castaneda |
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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 |
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The key to
success is to make good decisions.
The key to making good decisions is to have experience.
The key to getting experience is to make bad decisions.
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Decision
is a sharp knife that cuts clean and straight; indecision, a dull
one that hacks and tears and leaves ragged edges behind it.
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Keep a journal of some of the decisions you make
during the day. Notice when you
do what you want, when you
choose not to, and for what reasons. For example, you
may
choose to go to a party when you really want to stay home. Do
you push yourself
to work hard even if you are not feeling
well? Do you hold back from expressing your
ideas, feelings,
or creative impulses out of fear of criticism? Write how you
feel about the
choices you made. Notice how you feel
physically and emotionally. Be careful not to judge
or
criticize yourself for any of your choices. Cultivate an
attitude of compassionate
observation so you can learn what works
for you and what doesn't.
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It is
said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too,
results
from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small
matters
over a period of years. But the catch is that you can never
know when
a seemingly small decision may prove to be, from the vantage of
later
years, the big decision of your life.
Norman
Vincent Peale
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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.
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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.
H.W. Andrews |
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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 |
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Form the habit of making
decisions when your spirit is fresh. . . to let dark
moods lead is like choosing cowards to command armies.
Charles Horton Cooley |
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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. |
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No trumpets
sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
Destiny is made known silently.
Agnes DeMille |
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There is no
more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is
habitual but indecision. Fully half of the time of such a
person
goes to the deciding, or regretting of matters.
William James |
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The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic
growth; no commitment
is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a
cat on the basis of instinct. Nature
and being are identical in
creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes
fully human only by
his or her choices and his or her commitment to them.
People attain
worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from
day
by day. These decisions require courage.
Rollo May
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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.
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When
possible make the decisions now, even if the action is in the
future.
A revised decision usually is better than one reached at the last
moment.
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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 |
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