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Storytelling is a form of self-disclosure.
— John S. Savage, Listening and Caring Skills in Ministry: A Guide for Groups and Leaders
This chapter is an attempt to share with you some insights about story listening and how to do it.
— John S. Savage, Listening and Caring Skills in Ministry: A Guide for Groups and Leaders
Shivering as she gripped the handle, she looked around the cabin one last time. The uneasiness was still there. Why wouldn’t it leave her be?
— Deborah Grace Staley, What The Heart Wants
There is an uncharacteristic radicalism to Lewis’s further suggestion that if we can find “even one reader to whom the cheap little book with its double columns and the lurid daub on its cover had been a lifelong delight, who had read and reread it, who would notice, and object, if a single word were changed, then, however little we could see in it ourselves and however it was despised by our friends and colleagues, we should not dare to put it beyond the pale.
— Laura Miller, The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia
I can see how James or Greene might agree with this point of view: the former finds that the ugly old lamp no longer produces a genie when rubbed and the latter realizes he has nothing left to wish for.
— Laura Miller, The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia
I can hazily remember, long ago, having adults — librarians, friends’ parents — suggest to me that I liked books “with magic” because I wanted to escape from a reality that, by implication, I lacked the gumption to face.
— Laura Miller, The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia
There are humans, and there are ghosts. Vampires are just in a different state of transition. Not part of the human world and not part of the spirit world. We are just caught somewhere in between life and the real death.
— K.M. McFarland, Song of the Vampire
One advantage of static factory methods is that, unlike constructors, they have names.
— Joshua Bloch, Effective Java
Difficulty of subsistence made the invaders reduce the numbers of the army to a point at which it might live on the country during the prosecution of the war.
— Thucydides, The History of the Peloponnesian War
Imagine what the world might have been like if Larry and Sergey instead became professors or took a job at Microsoft.
— Jared Tame, Startups Open Sourced
Jesus says, “You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye” (Matthew 7:5). You see these dynamics when David arrives at King Saul’s camp, bringing food for his older brothers. David is surprised to hear Goliath taunting the Israelites and their God. He is shocked that no one has the courage to challenge Goliath and blurts out, “Who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?” (1 Samuel 17:26). David reacts to the split between Israel’s public faith and its battlefield...
— Paul Miller, A Praying Life
A second advantage of static factory methods is that, unlike constructors, they are not required to create a new object each time they're invoked.
— Joshua Bloch, Effective Java
Builder pattern is more verbose than the telescoping constructor pattern, so it should be used only if there are enough parameters, say, four or more.
— Joshua Bloch, Effective Java
Less than a decade after the Great Exhibition, iron as a structural material was finished—which makes it slightly odd that the most iconic structure of the entire century, about to rise over Paris, was made of that doomed material. I refer of course to the soaring wonder of the age known as the Eiffel Tower. Never in history has a structure been more technologically advanced, materially obsolescent, and gloriously pointless all at the same time.
— Bill Bryson, At Home: A Short History of Private Life
Persistence and perseverance – these are the two most important characteristics a startup founder should have.
— Abdul Jaleel Kavungal Kunnumpurath, iFounders - A Fascinating look into the minds of Indian StartUp Founders
So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires a great deal of strength to decide what to do.
— Elbert Hubbard
If you always make the right decision, the safe decision,the one most people make, you will be the same as everyone else.
— Paul Arden
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. 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.
— Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
Truly successful decision-making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking.
— Malcolm Gladwell
There are moments that define a person's whole life. MOMENTS in which everything they are and everything they may possibly become hinge on a single decision.
— Jonathan Maberry, Rot & Ruin
Jump or stay in the boat.
— Margaret Stohl, Beautiful Darkness
I wish I could turn back time, but I can't. I made a stupid decision because I thought I was invincible, and I'll pay for it the rest of my life.
— Simone Elkeles, Return to Paradise
Even though conditions such as lack of sleep, insufficient food and various mental stresses may suggest that the inmates were bound to react in certain ways, in the final analysis it becomes clear that the sort of person the prisoner became was the result of an inner decision, and not the result of camp influences alone.
— Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
Was I interrupting? I thought it was over." Rhys gave me a smile dripping with venom. He knew-through that bond, through whatever magic was between us, he'd known I was about to say no. "At least Feyre seemed to think so.
— Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury
I was only able to get over my past when I decided I was going to! As I’ve discovered, that’s how everything starts. I decided to get out of bed this morning. I decided to get ready for work (D’oh! Another early morning). Everything I did today was because I made a decision. Although we can’t set ourselves free, getting up and making a decision to move on from our past is a step in the right direction. We can’t do God’s part, and He won’t do our part. He can’t make that decision for you, because only you can. But once you have made that decision, He can help you with the rest.
— Corallie Buchanan, Watch Out! Godly Women on the Loose
Someone once said anyone can be great under rosy circumstances, but the true test of character is measured by how well a person makes decisions during difficult times.
— Jack Gantos, Hole in My Life
Don't ascribe to evil what can be attributed to well-intentioned stupidity.
— James A. Owen, The Shadow Dragons
Every moment is a moment of decision, and every moment turns us inexorably in the direction of the rest of our lives.
— Mary Balogh, Simply Perfect
When you decide something's right, there's nothing that can stop you from doing it.
— Caragh M. O'Brien, Birthmarked
Who can really say how decisions are made, how emotions change, how ideas arise? We talk about inspiration; about a bolt of lightnng from a clear sky, but perhaps everything is just as simple and just as infinitely complex as the processes that make a particular leaf fall at a particularmoment. That point has been reached, that's all. It has to happen, and it does happen.
— John Ajvide Lindqvist, Harbor
At various points in our lives, or on a quest, and for reasons that often remain obscure, we are driven to make decisions which prove with hindsight to be loaded with meaning. (225)
— Swami Satchidananda, The Yoga Sutras
He felt that he was still groping in the dark; he had chosen his path but kept looking back, wondering whether he had misread the signs, whether he should not have taken the other way.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Once a decision was made, I didn't worry about it afterward...
— Harry Truman
The smallest decisions made had such profound repercussions. One ten-minute wait could save a life… Or end it… One wrong turn down the right street or one seemingly unimportant conversation, and everything was changed. It wasn’t right that each lifetime was defined, ruined, ended, and made by such seemingly innocuous details. A major life-threatening event should come with a flashing warning sign that either said ABANDON ALL HOPE or SAFETY AHEAD. It was the cruelest joke of all that no one could see the most vicious curves until they were over the edge, falling into the abyss below.
— Sherrilyn Kenyon, Invincible
There is nothing in the world so difficult as that task of making up one's mind. Who is there that has not longed that the power and privilege of selection among alternatives should be taken away from him in some important crisis of his life, and that his conduct should be arranged for him, either this way or that, by some divine power if it were possible, - by some patriarchal power in the absence of divinity, - or by chance, even, if nothing better than chance could be found to do it? But no one dares to cast the die, and to go honestly by the hazard. There must be the actual necessity of obeying the die, before even the die can be of any use.
— Anthony Trollope, Phineas Finn
Big decisions in my life have always come easy and are made without hesitation. It is easier for me to make a life-changing decision than to decide what to get for dessert.
— Tony Hawk, Hawk: Occupation: Skateboarder
Every time he tried to reconstruct the internal arguments that had led to his decision, they sounded feebler to him.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
You couldn't changed history. But you could get it right to start with. Do something differently the FIRST time around.This whole business with seeking Slytherin's secrets... seemed an awful lot like the sort of thing where, years later, you would look back and say, 'And THAT was where it all started to go wrong.'And he would wish desperately for the ability to fall back through time and make a different choice. Wish granted. Now what?
— Eliezer Yudkowsky, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
There are two decisions you need to make after you have accepted Jesus into your life. One: You need to make the decision to get over your past. You will not grow unless you make a conscious decision to get over your past. Two: Once you have made that decision, you need to trust God to help you get over your past...You didn’t just automatically become a Christian, did you? You weren’t made a Christian by just going to church. Just like you are not made a car by sitting in a garage all day! You have to make a decision.
— Corallie Buchanan, Watch Out! Godly Women on the Loose
The native hue of resolution is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought; and enterprises of great pitch and moment, With this regard, their currents turn awry, and lose the name of action.
— William Shakespeare, Hamlet
No decision-making system is going to guarantee corporate success. The strategic decisions that corporations have to make are of mind-numbing complexity. But we know that the more power you give a single individual in the face of complexity and uncertainty, the more likely it is that bad decisions will get made.
— James Surowiecki, The Wisdom of Crowds
But he was able to understand one thing: making a decision was only the beginning of things. When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision.
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Diversity and independence are important because the best collective decisions are the product of disagreement and contest, not consensus or compromise.
— James Surowiecki, The Wisdom of Crowds
Don't decide yet," Hephaestus advised. "Wait until daybreak. Daybreak is a good time for decisions.
— Rick Riordan, The Battle of the Labyrinth
She has gone back to Brooklyn,' her mother would say. And, as the train rolled past Macmire Bridge on its way towards Wexford, Eilis imagined the years already when these words would come to mean less and less to the man who heard them and would come to mean more and more to herself. She almost smiled at the thought of it, then closed her eyes and tried to imagine nothing more.
— Colm Tóibín, Brooklyn
Cassie: What would it cost me if I kissed him? What would it cost me if I didn’t?
— Melanie Cusick-Jones, Outlanders
Every day you face two important decisions: what effect you want your speech and actions to have on the world around you, and what impressions and vibrations you want to be receptive to.
— Kalashatra Govinda, A Handbook of Chakra Healing: Spiritual Practice for Health, Harmony, and Inner Peace
In life, you have to take lots of decisions and if you don't take decisions you would never do anything because you would spend all your time choosing between things you could do.
— Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Not making a decision means forgoing an opportunity.
— Auliq Ice
Havin to make all the rules, all the time, wasn’t never my idea of a party.
— Todd  Johnson, The Sweet By and By
... but that's the beauty of boarding school. I make all my own decisions, small and medium, while the big ones are left up to the Prefect Academy - and as far as boys go, to the only expert I know - Suzanne Santry
— Adriana Trigiani, Viola in Reel Life
Everything, good or bad, was down to me.
— Dorothy Koomson, My Best Friend's Girl
But in the areas that matter most, a burst of energy and activity cannot reverse the consequences that accompany a season of neglect.
— Andy Stanley, Ask It: The Question That Will Revolutionize How You Make Decisions
I wondered quickly if I'd give my life so that a dragon could live. If someone offered me that deal, your life for the existence of dragons.I thought maybe yes, maybe no.
— Dave Eggers
If small groups are included in the decision-making process, then they should be allowed to make decisions. If an organization sets up teams and then uses them for purely advisory purposes, it loses the true advantage that a team has: namely, collective wisdom.
— James Surowiecki, The Wisdom of Crowds
Finally I reached into my pocket and flipped a quarter. Heads was Phlox, tails was Arthur. It came up heads. I called Arthur.
— Michael Chabon, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
Here's the reality of life,' he said. ' You make decisions with imperfect information and achieve imperfect results. The alternative is to never make a decision and never achieve results.
— Noelle Hancock, My Year with Eleanor
One of life's contradictions: how human beings were at once entirely resilient and impossibly fragile. One decision could stay with you forever, and yet you could live through almost anything.
— J. Courtney Sullivan, Saints for All Occasions
Your leadership responsibilities are the real golden stripes
— V.S. Parani, Golden Stripes - Leadership on the High Seas
By the time your perfect information has been gathered, the world has moved on.
— Phil Dourado, The 60 Second Leader: Everything You Need to Know about Leadership, in One Minute Bites
Don't spend a lifetime regretting the decisions that you made. Chances are, that someone else would have made them for you anyway.
— Anthony T. Hincks
... how often is it possible to see the big picture, really?" Rachel said. "Things happen fast. You just have to make the best decision you can and then go for it.... With me, it's about instinct. I knew we had to dig that tunnel. Turns out, I was right, but for the wrong reasons.
— K. A. Applegate
Once I make a decision, I stick to it.
— Susan Nussbaum, Good Kings Bad Kings
You're desperate, and so am I,' I said. 'Desperate people make stupid decisions all the time.'"P244
— Veronica Roth, Carve the Mark
The hallmark of a decision in line with one’s inner development is a feeling of having laid down a burden and picked up a more natural responsibility.
— Anne Truitt, Daybook: The Journal of an Artist
ultimately the decisions we make decide where and if we will wake up some morning.
— Chuck Bridges
The decision about what to do next was as difficult to grasp as the water swirling around my feet.
— Renee Conoulty, Don't Mean a Thing
We can't blame our decision if something goes wrong in life. Decision is made exactly as per the capacity and capability of the moment's consciousness
— Bhavik Sarkhedi, The Weak Point Dealer
There's nothing as 'Wrong' or 'Right'. It's the extent of how our mind can interpret the circumstances.
— Bhavik Sarkhedi, The Weak Point Dealer
That’s why we gotta do good things now. Make good decisions. Try to move the rudder long before the boat ever gets near the iceberg, right?
— Chuck Wendig, Invasive
No delays in expressing decisions. Whether its a Yes or No... Right or Wrong... Just tell that for heaven sake.
— Giridhar Alwar, My Quest For Happy Life
You need to decide for yourself whether you want to be a rare jewel or a common flower
— Norhafsah Hamid, Back to Basics
My wisdom absent of God’s wisdom is nothing more than a best-guess.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
The decisions you make today, could affect the rest of your life, be wise.
— Charmaine J. Forde
We don’t make the decisions, just does what we’re told where and when we’re told. We lives by rules made somewhere else by sons a bitches don’t know nothin’ about this place.
— Annie Proulx, The Shipping News
what I like and what I need’s two different things.
— J.D.  Jordan, Calamity: Being an Account of Calamity Jane and Her Gunslinging Green Man
Bad decisions can pile up to make a wall between you and what God wants you to do.
— Craig Groeschel, Dare to Drop the Pose: Ten Things Christians Think but Are Afraid to Say
There are Reasons behind all Decisions.
— Jaime Tenorio Valenzuela
Stupidity is a mindset of those who refuse knowledge! A mistake of judgment is an error, we make mistakes all of the time, it's stupid if you keep making the same mistakes often.
— Monica Chrisandtras Hines
Sometimes the smartest decision is the last one you want to make.
— Joe Hart, The Final Trade
Out of the decisions that we make in life, our Self emerges. What we choose in life is not the thing chosen out there, but oneself.
— Luis Enrique Cavazos, The Five Virtues That Awaken Your Life
I’m mean? That’s the worst you can throw at me?”“Mean and self-pitying. Does that make it better?”“And what are you, Astrid?” he shouted. “A smug know-it-all! You point your finger at me and say, ‘Hey, Sam, you make the decisions, and you take all the heat.’”“Oh, it’s my fault? No way. I didn’t anoint you.”“Yeah, you did, Astrid. You guilted me into it. You think I don’t know what you’re all about? You used me to protect Little Pete. You use me to get your way. You manipulate me anytime you feel like it.”“You really are a jerk, you know that?”“No, I’m not a jerk, Astrid. You know what I am? I’m the guy getting people killed,” Sam said quietly.Then, “My head is exploding from it. I can’t get my brain around it. I can’t do this. I can’t be that guy, Astrid, I’m a kid, I should be studying algebra or whatever. I should be hanging out. I should be watching TV.”His voice rose, higher and louder till he was screaming. “What do you want from me? I’m not Little Pete’s father. I’m not everybody’s father. Do you ever stop to think what people are asking me to do? You know what they want me to do? Do you? They want me to kill my brother so the lights will come back on. They want me to kill kids! Kill Drake. Kill Diana. Get our own kids killed.“That’s what they ask. Why not, Sam? Why aren’t you doing what you have to do, Sam? Tell kids to get eaten alive by zekes, Sam. Tell Edilio to dig some more holes in the square, Sam.”He had gone from yelling to sobbing. “I’m fifteen years old. I’m fifteen.”He sat down hard on the edge of the bed. “Oh, my God, Astrid. It’s in my head, all these things. I can’t get rid of them. It’s like some filthy animal inside my head and I will never, ever, ever get rid of it. It makes me feel so bad. It’s disgusting. I want to throw up. I want to die. I want someone to shoot me in the head so I don’t have to think about everything.”Astrid was beside him, and her arms were around him. He was ashamed, but he couldn’t stop the tears. He was sobbing like he had when he was a little kid, like when he had a nightmare. Out of control. Sobbing.Gradually the spasms slowed. Then stopped. His breathing went from ragged to regular.“I’m really glad the lights weren’t on,” Sam said. “Bad enough you had to hear it.”“I’m falling apart,” he said.Astrid gave no answer, just held him close. And after what felt like a very long time, Sam moved away from her, gently putting distance between them again.“Listen. You won’t ever tell anyone…”“No. But, Sam…”“Please don’t tell me it’s okay,” Sam said. “Don’t be nice to me anymore. Don’t even tell me you love me. I’m about a millimeter from falling apart again.”“Okay.
— Michael  Grant, Hunger
You’re looking at this choice like it’s right versus wrong. It’s not right versus wrong. It’s right versus left. You’re at a crossroads. You can go left or right…both are good options. That’s why it’s so hard to decide. If this was a choice between right and wrong, it would be easy.
— Tiffany Reisz, Her Halloween Treat
A man making decisions on another man’s life should have already made up his mind about his own.
— Moe Cidaly
Son, you have to know what you want. If someone else has what you want, learn from them, but you must trust your own instincts to make the right decisions. The voice of inspiration will come only after you have a clear picture of what you are seeking, and after you allow yourself to feel truly grateful, as though you already enjoy the success.
— Leslie Householder, The Jackrabbit Factor: Why You Can
Good decision-making is like playing chess and you must avoid making hasty decisions without thinking of how that particular decision will impact on different aspects of your work and organization. The worst kind of decision-making is to decide to delay a difficult decision until later or to pass it to someone else to have to make. You will never excel and be valued by your colleagues if you get into these habits of procrastination and passing responsibility to others.
— Nigel Cumberland, Secrets of Success at Work: 50 Techniques to Excel
I need not present my actions, my words, myself for somebody else's approval. And basing my decisions on somebody else's approval or making my own approval contingent on somebody else's only postpones what I really want.
— Jan Denise
Important decisions that will affect a nation’s fate or humanity’s fate cannot be left to the referendums! Because such decisions require good knowledge of history
—  they require a sound reason and a powerful logic and masses often do not have such characteristics!
Once again I am being held hostage for my vagina," She sighs. "What is it with you aliens? Can't a girl just make her own decisions for once? Is that so freaking hard?" "The khui has decided," I tell her. She gives a small shake of her head. "It's always someone else's decision. When's it going to be mine?" I watch her, frustrated. There is no decision to be made. The khui has decided. And yet... I don't like the way her words make me feel. Or the defeat in her voice. Liz is a fighter. I don't want her to give up.
— Ruby Dixon, Barbarian Alien
At any given moment you have power to decide how your story is going to end
— Robin Dabhi
But he was able to understand one thing: making decision was only the beginning of things. When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision.
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
One decision make differences, so make one.
— Deyth Banger
There's a difference between regret and questioning your decision. Regret is counterproductive. It's looking back on a past that you can't change. Questioning things as they occur can prevent regret in the future.
— Colleen Hoover
I don't know how to choose my purpose - that sounds to big and... significant. But I know who I am, and I've chosen the things that are important to me. I think the best decisions I make about what to do in my life come when I'm being true to both of those things
— April White, Waging War
They didn't even had the authority to choose an alcoholic beverage. They couldn't be deciding who deserved to live or die.
— Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys
I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up. ~Mark Twain, "The Innocents Abroad
— Mark Twain
Baseball was a safe bet. Baseball also didn't have a girlfriend. Then again, baseball didn't have big brown eyes or show a little hint of cleavage under its uniforms. Decisions, decisions.
— Rachel Spangler, Heart of the Game
I must talk to Kennit first. He will tell me when he is ready for us to have a baby.""Never," Bolt said flatly."What?""Never wait for a male on any such decision. You are the queen. You decide. Males are not made for such decisions. I have seen it time and time again. They would have you wait for days of sunshine and wealth and plenty. Yet to a male, enough is never sufficient, and plenty never reached. A queen knows that when times are hardest and game most scarce, that is when one must care most about the continuance of the race. Some things are not for males to decide.
— Robin Hobb, Ship of Destiny
Dead is not an option ".
— Fernando González y Lozano
The worst decisions in life we make are always the one we make out of fear.
— Sherrilyn Kenyon, Born of Betrayal
#Cats are marvelous creatures - they either adapt to circumstances, or decide to make circumstances adapt to them. Either way - they win.
— Will Advise, Nothing is here...
A choice architect has the responsibility for organizing the context in which people make decisions. [T]here are many parallels between choice architecture and more traditional forms of architecture. A crucial parallel is that there is no such thing as a “neutral” design. [A]s good architects know, seemingly arbitrary decisions, such as where to locate the bathrooms, will have subtle influences on how the people who use the building interact. [S]mall and apparently insignificant details can have major impacts on people’s behavior. [I]n many cases, the power of these small details comes from focusing the attention of users in a particular direction. Good architects realize that although they can’t build the perfect building, they can make some design choices that will have beneficial effects. And just as a building architect must eventually build some particular building, a choice architect must [for example] choose a particular arrangement of food options at lunch, and by so doing she can influence what people eat. She can nudge.
— Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein
In every life story, including our own, decisions are made in haste that determine the course of eternity.
— Liz Curtis Higgs, Bad Girls of the Bible: And What We Can Learn from Them
When possible, the brain makes a behavior into a habit, which saves effort and therefore gives us more capacity to deal with complex, novel, or urgent matters.
— Gretchen Rubin
The best to know is to face it, take a next step toward it.
— Bhagat Negi
We are at that age that balances between independence and conferring with your friends about every miniscule decision you make. I've never liked that part of adolescence.
— Tarryn Fisher, F*ck Love
Junior based all of his decisions on his dreams and visions, which created a lot of problems.
— Sherman Alexie, Reservation Blues
Personal Responsibility is an act of being responsible for results and consequences of your decisions, actions and in-actions in a given situation or circumstance.
— Sunday Adelaja
The decisions of citizens either in matters of private business or political life of the nation, are directly related to the prevailing value system of the nation
— Sunday Adelaja
Lack of sound mind and judgement – the ability to make considered decisions or come to sensible conclusions, is a matter of frustration and disillusionment to God
— Sunday Adelaja
It was as if my rationale had a stupid friend that was always getting up to no good.
— S.A. Tawks, Mule
Free will," she agreed, "our greatest gift, the thing that makes life worth living, in spite of all the anguish it brings.
— Dean Koontz, Saint Odd
There are more important things than being careful
— Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel
A PSYCHOLOGICAL TIPWhenever you're called on to make up your mind,and you're hampered by not having any,the best way to solve the dilemma, you'll find,is simply by spinning a penny.No -- not so that chance shall decide the affairwhile you're passively standing there moping;but the moment the penny is up in the air,you suddenly know what you're hoping.
— Piet Hein
Autumn said to me, "You see, the best thing about wrong decisions is that they don't prevent you from making the right decisions later on. It's harder, but it's impossible
— Siobhan Vivian, Not That Kind of Girl
Important decisions are better made after a good nights sleep
— Steven Aitchison
Lacking a clear formula for making decisions, we get reactive and fall back on familiar, comfortable ways to decide what to do. Pinballing through our day like a confused character in a B-horror movie, we end up running up the stairs instead of out the front door. The best decision gets traded for any decision.
— Gary Keller, The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results
Decisions by committee are almost always long in coming and dead wrong. A world-changing vision comes from one person, not five or or twenty or a hundred, and more often than not, the best of plans are laid to waste by the many.
— Patrick Carman, The Dark Planet
Even though the Judge would charge the jury that they should listen to all the evidence before they made up their minds, the chances were likely that 100% of them will have already decided if William was guilty or not before the trial was over.
— Kenneth Eade, Unreasonable Force
A decision clouded with doubt is never a good decision
— Steven Aitchison
Make a decision to perform something great, something that requires skill, something special for the Kingdom of God.
— Sunday Adelaja
Love that is founded on decision is stable and strong and it will endure any trial
— Sunday Adelaja
Do not let go of your right to make your own decisions, because by doing so you are letting go of who you really are.
— Sameh Elsayed
This is the time to rise up and design(customize) your life.
— Bernard Kelvin Clive, Your Dreams Will Not Die
Somewhere, the imaginary little shoulder angel and devil were having a conversation on their respective sides, the angel offering a gentle warning that this might not be a good idea, given all the drama, the complications. But the little devil, with its pudgy belly and pointy ears, was so comical that Holly almost laughed when he rolled his eyes at the angel and whispered, "Oh, whatever".
— Melissa Senate, The Love Goddess' Cooking School
Doesn't matter if you speak either truth or a lie. People are too stubborn to listen only an expected/ pre-concluded/ conjectured answers from you, without having any second thought about the impetus and certitude of the person who speaks. Finally, a cessation that you are no more the same person which you were earlier.
— David Barik
The 'right' may be wrong and the 'wrong' may be right in life!
— Ravi Samuel
Streams of consequence flow from every action, and from every conflict there are two paths by which events may go.
— Stephen R. Lawhead
Nothing had ever existed between us except the possibility of something, and now even that was over.
— Alastair Reynolds, House of Suns
Contemplating, thinking hard, I don't make judgement but i have decided
— Aireen Pontillo
You need to re-assess your responsibility before making any necessary conclusion.
— Auliq Ice
We take thousands of decisions in life
—  the very best ones are often the ones taken boldly and unhesitatingly!
In the matters of your life don't take orders, take decisions.
— Amit Kalantri
You must love him enough to trust his wishes, even if you disagree with them. You must respect him - no matter how wrong you think he may be, no matter how poor you think his decisions, you must respect his desire to make them. Even if one of them includes loving you.
— Brandon Sanderson, The Well of Ascension
I realize that not everyone could be granted the chance of getting a decent closure – most people just deal with the decisions they made then on their own.
— Dawn Lanuza, The Boyfriend Backtrack
A Warrior of Light does not postpone making decisions.
— Paulo Coelho, Warrior of the Light
Making the hard to decision to throw away a once favorite bra is like deleting an ex-friend that repeatedly let you down.
— Crystal Woods, Write like no one is reading
You should never make a decision the day before your period.
— Miranda J. Barrett, A Woman's Truth: A Life Truly Worth Living
Then are there no rules at all, Lord?” Moneo's voice conveyed a faint hint of hysteria.Leto smiled to ease the man's tensions. “Perhaps one. Short–term decisions tend to fail in the long–term.
— Frank Herbert
We rob ourselves when we make decisions in the moment with no thought of how those decisions will impact our futures.
— Andy Stanley
I waste every breathe of my life trying to be the best nobody has ever been.
— Unarine Ramaru
Define your life,Define your world,Define your passions,Define your goals.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
A decision is made with the brain. A commitment is made with the heart. Therefore, a commitment is much deeper and more binding than a decision.
— Nido Qubein
None of us plan--or intend--to get into trouble. The problem is, we don't plan not to.
— Andy Stanley, Ask It: The Question That Will Revolutionize How You Make Decisions
Sometimes smallest decisions are bliss that can change our life forever
— Kishore Bansal
If you are ever in doubt about which way you should travel, make a choice that contains the essence of goodness and love and then go in that direction. This way, you can have absolute faith that you made the right decision.
— Molly Friedenfeld
The health of your marriage tomorrow will be determined by the decisions you make today.
— Andy Stanley
But in life you have to take lots of deductions and if you don't take decisions you would never do anything because you would spend all your time choosing between things you could do.So it is good to have a reason why you hate some things and why you like others.
— Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Life is what you make of it.You have to decide what you want in life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Silence. Montag sat like a carved white stone. The echo of the final hammer on his skull died slowly away into the black cavern where Faber waited for the echoes to subside. And then when the startled dust had settled down about Montag's mind, Faber began, softly, "All right, he's had his say. You must take it in. I'll say my say, too, in the next hours. And you'll take it in. And you'll try to judge them and make your decisions as to which way to jump, or fall. But I want it to be your decision, not mine, and not the Captain's. But remember that the Captain belongs to the most dangerous enemy to truth and freedom, the solid unmoving cattle of the majority. We all have our harps to play. And it's up to you now to know with which ear you'll listen.
— Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
Decide.Take one of the most unsettling things you feel exist in your life and decide.Decide to meet it with love and understanding.Decide to meet it with a proactive spirit that believes that a solution, an ease, a peaceful resolve rests in the meeting.Prepare your heart for what it feels like to be joyous over the result. Give life to this solution with your breath.Let any fear be a helpmate, let it actually support and lift you to an awareness that your next opportunity for growth is revisiting you through this present unsettling because you are now more than capable and authentically ready to meet it.Learn and value the lesson and transcend its repetitive nature.
— David  Ault
In the end you only answer to yourself!
— Ryk Brown, The Expanse
Our politicians always show lame excuse to defend their cripple decisions.
— Munia Khan
The funny thing about decisions based on signs or gut or visions is that they're usually nothing but noble outs. Just another way to sabotage yourself and keep your bigger life at bay.
— Jackson Galaxy, Cat Daddy: What the World's Most Incorrigible Cat Taught Me About Life, Love, and Coming Clean
Do you keep pace with those around you, or do you decide yourself just how you will live your life? The truth is...only you are qualified to set your standards. Only you can determine how you should live and what you will finally expect from yourself.
— Steve Goodier
Make more decisions everyday. Because a decision is a summoning of life. That's why a little chaos is good for you, because often you don't make a decision until you get yourself in a jam. And then, in the middle of the jam, you make a decision, but that decision summons Life Force. Have you ever been a place where you couldn't quite make up your mind and you just felt sort of limp? "Oh, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know." And then you decided, and you felt alive again. We want you to know that you'll never get it done. so don't approach this from, "I gotta get on this" because you're not ever going to get it done, anyway. And the other thing we want you to know is, you cannot get it wrong. So, make a decision. Let it flow.
— Abraham Hicks
Every decision you make in life has benefits and consequences. Sometimes you just have to go on faith, and even that comes at a price. It means you have to give up the idea that you’re the one in charge of the universe.
— Lisa Wingate, The Sea Glass Sisters
Wisdom makes decisions today that will still be good tomorrow.
— Lysa TerKeurst, The Best Yes: Making Wise Decisions in the Midst of Endless Demands
Simple works, complex fails.
— Timothy Ferriss
Your life today is the result of a series of decisions you made that have caused you to arrive where you are.
— Chris Prentiss, Zen and the Art of Happiness
There's a lot of randomness in the decisions that people make.
— Daniel Kahneman
He looked like a walking, talking billboard for deliciously irresponsible behavior and a treasure trove of regrettable decisions.
— Alexi Lawless, Complicated Creatures: Part One
Your family will flourish when decisions are guided by the Lord—the head of your household.
— Elizabeth George, Moments of Grace for a Woman's Heart
You are more than capable of taking decisions about your own life.
— Raphael Zernoff, Being Yourself, Riding the Wave of Change
Only when you decide to truly live can you be free of your fears, and only when you are free of your fears can you truly live.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
And it was suddenly very simple: There was no choice.
— Jojo Moyes, The Girl You Left Behind
Groups are only smart when there is a balance between the information that everyone in the group shares and the information that each of the members of the group holds privately. It's the combination of all those pieces of independent information, some of them right, some of the wrong, that keeps the group wise.
— James Surowiecki, The Wisdom of Crowds
There comes a point in your life when you have to take a decision, firm one. You take it, stick to it, execute it. You might alienate some people with your decision but as long as you know the decision is right there is nothing to be concerned about. If you have the slightest doubt that the decision was wrong and it has done more harm than good, you must rectify. If you are sure the decision was absolutely right then you need not be worried about the people you alienated, you are better off without them in your life.If people cannot appreciate you for what you are, you don't need their drama in your life.
— Arti Honrao
Everyone is entitled to making bad decisions from time to time, but the true test is in how you handle things after those decisions have been made.
— Alicia T. Bowens, L.O.V.E. for Teen Moms: You Can Still Have Lives of Vision & Empowerment
Life is a learning process.Learn from your mistakes.The lessons should motivates you to make better decisions.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
When making tough decisions it is ok to get it wrong as long as we are working to make it right.
— j.villodas
In life you hoped to do what you could but mostly you did what you were told and that was the end of it.
— Iain M. Banks, Matter
Character? I should have thought it needed a good deal of character to throw up a career after half an hour’s meditation, because you saw in another way of living a more intense significance. And it required still more character never to regret the sudden step. I wondered if Abraham really had made a hash of life. Is to do what you most want, to live under the conditions that please you, in peace with yourself, to make a hash of life; and is it success to be an eminent surgeon with ten thousand a year and a beautiful wife? I suppose it depends on what meaning you attach to life, the claim which you acknowledge to society, and the claim of the individual. But again I held my tongue, for who am I to argue with a knight?
— W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence
Make decisions even with incomplete info. You'll never have all the info you need. What matters is what you do with the info you have.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
No one decides where I go, least of all myself, though each step is where it must be.
— Tomas Tranströmer
don't even leap to actions and decisions before you've found that sense of natural calm, well-being, or enthusiasm.
— Frederick Dodson, Parallel Universes of Self
don't make decision from other's suggestion,,cause none knows you more than yourself
— MK PRINCE
We have the right to make our own bad decisions and live with the consequences.
— Matthew War Bonnet
Saying"I love you"is a major decision.
— Azhly Antenor
We must make decisions as if they affect those we've not even met because we realize they do. We must live respective of world family.
— Holly Sprink, Faith Postures: Cultivating Christian Mindfulness
Sometimes the decision is placed in your hands and you just have to go with it, right or wrong, according to what you think is best.
— C.S. Friedman, The Madness Season
It's painful and it's messy. But sometimes you just have to make the break and start again.
— Tony Parsons, Man and Wife
If you want to trust yourself, make decisions that aregrounded in your authentic principles. Don’t lie. Don’tcheat. Don’t push others down to obtain success.
— Richie Norton
He knew, perhaps better than anyone, that we don't get to choose what is true. We only get to choose what we do about it.
— Kami Garcia, Beautiful Darkness
Little decisions over time make a big impact on our lives.
— Eric Samuel Timm, Static Jedi: The Art of Hearing God Through the Noise
It's hard to do that, to decide to believe one thing over another.
— Carol Rifka Brunt, Tell the Wolves I'm Home
Now, he realized, he simply had to take what he wanted. He had to control the winds, not the other way around (p. 434).
— Rick Riordan, The House of Hades
I’d rather go and make my own way than have it decided for me.
— Laura Lam, Pantomime
So what are you going to do? Let your future be shaped by the injustices and cruelties of the past, or do you shape your own future? Do you walk down those mean streets without becoming mean yourself, or do you lie down and whimper? Victim of everyone, or the hero of your own story – those are your only choices.
— Ralph E. Vaughan, A Flight of Raptors
A number of small decisions, each appearing insignificant in the moment and made in isolation of one another, can result in a negative outcome.
— Vince Molinaro, The Leadership Contract: The Fine Print to Becoming a Great Leader
I do not know your situation. But I know the easy answer is almost always the wrong one. Search your heart. Where is your fear driving you?
— Aaron Pogue, The Dragonprince's Heir
That our intuition could lead us astray is troubling in direct proportion to the degree of trust we place in it. The solution would seem to be: Don’t be overly trusting. Mix in a healthy dose of skepticism. But suppose we don’t have a say in the matter? Suppose we’re hardwired to trust—to believe in—our instincts, regardless of whether they’re right? Suddenly the problem of not knowing becomes a lot more complicated.
— Leah Hager Cohen, I Don't Know: In Praise of Admitting Ignorance
If you let fear make decisions for you, fear will make good decisions - but only for its own sake, not yours. p. 161
— Bridget Asher, The Pretend Wife
When you have to made a decision, there's no return, keep this in your mind.
— Al-Hanouf Halawi
Everything is a tool - a boot, a sled, a dog - and a hand, an arm, even a man! If it breaks down you throw it away and you march on! It's brutal, yes! And it's ugly. But anything else is sentiment and it will kill you.
— Ted Tally, Terra Nova
Observation is the telescope of human nature. It is the tele of watching distantly. But taking an action is the result of Self-regulation and interference. It is going beyond boundaries in aiming to achieve a considerable ambitions.
— Mohammed Rasmi
The ignoramus crow of "love it or leave it" omits other viable options, such as staying and changing it.
— Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
I had reclusive tendencies for a reason, I couldn’t be trusted to live in the world and make decisions on my own.
— Penny Reid, Neanderthal Seeks Human
We wind our way up the spiral staircase and then down the long hallway that leads to his room. I feel almost like I’m watching the scene unfold from outside my body. My fingers are interlocked with his as he pulls me toward a moment that’s going to change everything. We are ten steps away. Five steps. I can’t decide. But then I do.
— Paula Stokes, The Art of Lainey
You'll wake up one day and find you're almost forty, and you haven't done any of the things you wanted. That you let in so many voices when you were trying to make decisions, instead of listening to the One voice that mattered, that you never decided anything at all.
— Stephanie Morrill, The Revised Life of Ellie Sweet
Time...give us enough time and our best-supported decisions will seem wobbly, our certainties whimsical.
— Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending
I wouldn't want to live that life. I choose the pain. I chose the pain.
— Suzanne Palmieri, The Witch of Little Italy
The decisions we take reflects our belief and our charachter
— Rajnish Borah
Ask yourself before making a decision
—  will this decision harm or help myself or others involved in the decision
Marriage isn't for everyone, however if you find the right co-pilot it's a great way to travel through life 
— Kloby
If the breadth of perspectives is wide enough to represent the fullest range of views, consensus is unlikely. If consensus is swiftly achieved, it probably means too few voices have been heard.
— Ron Suskind, Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President
We are very quiet there, but it is the quiet of a storm centre. .
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Decisions Determine the directions of your destiny
— Bobby Sullivan
My bad luck got tangled up with my bad decisions, and I'm paying for it.
— Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear
The only good thing about having your back to the wall is that it makes it really easy to choose which way you're going to go.
— Jim Butcher, Cold Days
I realize that the decision might be simple. It will require a great act of selflessness to choose Abnegation, or a great act of courage to choose Dauntless, and maybe just choosing one over the other will prove that I belong.
— Veronica Roth, Divergent
Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn
— Bertrand Russell
Not making a decision is the worst thing you can do. So long as you feel you made the right decision based on the information you had at that time, there's no need to fret about it. If it fails, you'll know what to do next time.
— Bo Schembechler, Bo's Lasting Lessons: The Legendary Coach Teaches the Timeless Fundamentals of Leadership