#decisions

I do think that despite my best efforts to resist it, I am now a grown-up. It's due to lots of very difficult decisions that you make over a long period of time - about motherhood, wifehood, and work, and all the things that one has to make decisions about. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#am #best #decisions #despite #difficult

Many people fail in their career, business and relationship, and others get stuck because of their inability to make quality decisions. ↗

— Nkem Mpamah

#decisions #decisions-inspirational #how-to-make-decision #quality-decision-making #why-people-fail

There is history the way Tolstoy imagined it, as a great, slow-moving weather system in which even tsars and generals are just leaves before the storm. And there is history the way Hollywood imagines it, as a single story line in which the right move by the tsar or the wrong move by the general changes everything. Most of us, deep down, are probably Hollywood people. We like to invent “what if” scenarios--what if x had never happened, what if y had happened instead?--because we like to believe that individual decisions make a difference: that, if not for x, or if only there had been y, history might have plunged forever down a completely different path. Since we are agents, we have an interest in the efficacy of agency. ↗

— Louis Menand

#decisions #fate #history #individuals #predestination

Kitten, you need to make a decision. Either we stay here and behave or we leave now and I promise you”—his voice dipped lower and the words fell against my lips—“if we leave, I won’t behave. ↗

— Jeaniene Frost

#decisions

Being in command means making tough decisions. Not being in command means shutting up and doing what you're told. --Artemis Fowl ↗

— Eoin Colfer

#decisions

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

#gandalf #steadfastness #truths #decisions

You can't make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen. ↗

— Michelle Obama

#decisions #fear #decisions

Even if we all want you here, you don't belong until you decide you do. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#decision #decisions

Of what does politics consist except the making of imperfect decisions, many of them unjust and quite a few of them deadly? ↗

— Lewis H. Lapham

#deadly #decisions #does #except #few