#decisions

I am facing the most difficult thing of my life, my own greatest failure. ↗

— Richard Paul Evans

#difficult-times #facing-problems #failure #life

The only difference between me and most people is that I'm perfectly aware that all my important decisions are made for me by my subconscious. My frontal lobes are just kidding themselves that they decide anything at all. All they do is think up reasons for the decisions that are already made." [Life magazine, December 10, 1965] ↗

— Rex Stout

#decisions #reason #subconscious #life

Truly successful decision-making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking. ↗

— Malcolm Gladwell

#balance

Perhaps our greatest distinction as a species is our capacity, unique among animals, to make counter-evolutionary choices. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#decisions #evolution #evolution

Waiting hurts. Forgetting hurts. But not knowing which decision to take can sometimes be the most painful... ↗

— José N. Harris

#decisions #pain #waiting #waiting

Choice is the keynote of self-determinism. To determine anything, you must have the choice to determine. Choice to determine means that you must have the power of decision. Decision and time have a lot in common. When we have clean, clear decision, we have clean, clear time. And when we have indecision, there is an unclarity about time. ↗

— L. Ron Hubbard

#decisions #self-determination #self-determination

It's funny; I actually made poorer decisions when I sobered up then when I was screwed up. ↗

— Corey Feldman

#decisions #funny #i #made #poorer

When you're on the Olympic team at 15, you don't do anything else. There's no normal social development, and your decisions are made for you. ↗

— Cathy Rigby

#decisions #development #else #made #normal

The vital thing for me is to integrate the history from above with the history from below because only in that way can you show the true consequences of the decisions of Hitler or Stalin or whomever on the ordinary civilians caught up in the battle. ↗

— Antony Beevor

#battle #because #below #caught #civilians

Be confident to inspire confidence in others. Then try to come to a decision about something. ↗

— Bauvard

#decisions #funny #humor #funny