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.

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...

He himself, he realized, had always been most abominably frightened, even at the height of his divine power, a frail god upon a rickety throne, afraid of opening letters, of making decisions, afraid of the...

Don’t decide yet,” Hephaestus advised. “Wait until daybreak. Daybreak is a good time for decisions.

If something hurts you, be happy that you have a heart that hurts.

don’t settle for anything less than what you really want.

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.

Nothing had ever existed between us except the possibility of something, and now even that was over.

(ADR) allows parties to control and design the outcome of their disputes by crafting creative solutions that avoid the randomness of trial decisions, … Schedules can also be controlled, reducing business, professional and personal disruption.

When you decide something’s right, there’s nothing that can stop you from doing it.

I don’t think the Fed looks at the equity market and makes decisions off the equity markets, but the equity markets are absolutely a reflection of wealth and consumer confidence, … That is what the...

My worry is this: It’s the fox guarding the henhouse. Objective, impartial parties should be making these decisions. Not a pro-death penalty U.S. attorney general.

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.

When I was younger, I made some decisions that I shouldn’t have. And, in hindsight, I’ve almost always been wrong when I haven’t listened to myself.

My job is to tell a story, and the decisions about the casting have to be honest.

Decision is a sharp knife that cuts or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was clean and straight; indecision, a dull one that hacks and tears and...

When we say ‘Yes’ to something we are always saying‘No’ to something else. So in that way, we never ‘don’t do’ anything. We are just doing something else.

I know that young people sometimes, caught up in the moment, make some very foolish decisions.

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.

Time…give us enough time and our best-supported decisions will seem wobbly, our certainties whimsical.

Every brush stroke on the canvas, every dab of color introduced, the fine textures impressed in the paint—this accumulation of many small acts combines to shape a final work of art. And so it is...

Let today mark a new beginning for you. Give yourself permission to say NO without feeling guilty, mean, or selfish. Anybody who gets upset and/or expects you to say YES all of the time clearly...

You will learn to make better decisions in life with experience and time.

Where defining foreign policy as ‘ethical’ went wrong was that it implied that all decisions would be exclusive in every respect of any dealings with unethical regimes.

At what point do you no longer need other people to support the decisions you’ve made about your own reality?

The chains that keep you bound to the past are not the actions of another person. They are your own anger, stubbornness, lack of compassion, jealousy and blaming others for your choices. It is not...

I think these will be very difficult discussion and I do not think we will see any major decisions made today.

You need to re-assess your responsibility before making any necessary conclusion.

There is a devilishly direct relationship between the significance of an idea and how nervous we become at the prospect of having to think about it.

The health of your marriage tomorrow will be determined by the decisions you make today.

Maturity is the ability to make a decision and stand by it.

Men who make all the decisions in a relationship are also the ones who will blame you when they don’t work out as they expected.

There is no evidence that Ron Swanson ever gave George Ryan anything of value to influence any decisions he made.

The real damper on employee engagement is the soggy, cold blanket of centralized authority. In most companies, power cascades downwards from the CEO. Not only are employees disenfranchised from most policy decisions, they lack even...

It boils down to this: If you work in an operating room, you are required to make an immediate decision. If you are a National Guardsman in Iraq, you have to make immediate decisions, …...

Little choices determine habit;Habit carves and molds characterWhich makes the big decisions.

I unfortunately believe and I use the word unfortunately because Speaker Black’s career is long and illustrious that this matter needs to be referred to the district attorney for the district attorney to look at...

Even if the decisions one made on a given day seemed crazy, it helped to think that all things happened for a mysterious reason.

We made some not-so-wise decisions in the first half.

The hardest decisions in life are not between good and bad or right and wrong, but between two goods or two rights.

I make a personal commitment to the direction and success of all the programs in which I invest. I make all major philanthropic decisions myself after taking account of a range of expert opinion.

A game like sardines is scary, not so much for the hider but for the seekers. It’s scary because you lose your companions and the whole world creeps up quiet and you slowly realize you’re...

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.

I usually do at least a dozen drafts and progressively make more-conscious decisions. Because I’ve always believed stories are closer to poems than novels, I spend a lot of time on the story’s larger rhythms,...

Politicians make decisions in favor of their interest groups or their supporters back in their hometowns.

Sometimes the best and worst times of your life can coincide. It is a talent of the soul to discover the joy in pain—-thinking of moments you long for, and knowing you’ll never have them...

Simple works, complex fails.

I blame Doctor Who. Mr Spock. The Scooby Gang: both the ones in the Mystery Machine and the ones with the stakes. I’ve spent my life with stories of people who don’t walk away, who...

It was just stupid and unnecessary and to be condemned. That won’t affect the decisions of eight men (at the summit).

In the survey the School Board asks multiple questions, clumsily disguised as serious attempts to gain parents’ views for future decisions. The survey contains nothing more than a threat of dire outcomes designed to scare...