To the young and still dreaming, it seems an obvious choice. It was that moment all men anticipate, some with eagerness and some with dread, when you finally confront your dream and you must decide, once and for all, if you want it. ~Tony Robbins, 'The Unstoppable You: Decision Maker,' Notes from a Friend: A Quick and Simple Guide to Taking Charge of Your Life, 1991 all our actions are fathered by a decision: the power of decision is the power of change. ~Catherine Langenkamp, June 2010 entry to The Quote Garden create your own quote contest on Twitter, reason smart people don't always succeed is that there's always a moment when the smart thing to do would be to chuck the whole thing. To decide the future, live the present and learn from the past.

To seek a justification for a decision already made. ~Emily Steele, June 2010 entry to The Quote Garden create your own quote contest on Twitter, ECONSIDER, v. To decide is redundant, your choice has already been made. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet. I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor, and another fig was Europe and Africa and South America, and another fig was Constantin and Socrates and Attila and a pack of other lovers with queer names and offbeat professions, and another fig was an Olympic lady crew champion, and beyond and above these figs were many more figs I couldn't quite make out. I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story.įrom the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. ~Percy Keese Fitzhugh, Roy Blakeley: Lost, Strayed or Stolen, 1921 This story has two endings and you can choose whichever one you please. Now if you want to stick to those fellows, go ahead and do it. ~Author unknownĭo not plant your dreams in the field of indecision, where nothing ever grows but the weeds of 'what-if.' ~Dodinsky ~Kenrick Kilet, June 2010 entry to The Quote Garden create your own quote contest on Twitter, becomes decision with time. To decide whether to let go or hang in there is often the hardest thing to do. Good decisions come from experience, and experience comes from bad decisions. ~Anthony Robbins, Awaken the Giant Within, 1991 Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant. It's a dreadful misfortune, but I was born that way. Just as soon as I decide to do something I feel in my bones that another course would be the correct one. ~Setu Shah, June 2010 entry to The Quote Garden create your own quote contest on Twitter, always afflicted with indecision. But to choose, it's the heart which does the work. ~Betsy Cañas Garmon, June 2010 winner of The Quote Garden create your own quote contest on Twitter, a minute there is timeįor decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse. To decide is to walk facing forward with nary a crick in your neck from looking back at the crossroads. I must have a prodigious quantity of mind it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up. ~Lisa Tabak, June 2010 entry to The Quote Garden create your own quote contest on Twitter, you base your life on principle, 99% of your decisions are already made. To decide is to make peace within and let the chips fall where they may. Sometimes you can head off a decision you'll regret by looking into your heart and finding regret already there. ~Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742–1799), translated by Norman Alliston, 1908

This is all very well but cases may occur where on this plan you risk being captured, bed and all. There are people who can come to no decision on any matter without first having slept over it. ~Rupert Hughes, The Last Rose of Summer, 1914 ~Dutch proverbĭeborah's heart was a whirlpool of indecision. ~Rita Mae Brown, Sudden Death, 1983Ĭhoice is the hinge of destiny. The Quote Garden ™Ī peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one.

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