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If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.another phrasing: If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.
Seneca (Seneca the Elder)
The whole world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going.
Anon.
The roads we take are more important than the goals we announce. Decisions determine destiny.
Frederick Speakman
You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage—pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically, to say “no” to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger “yes” burning inside. The enemy of the “best” is often the “good".
Stephen Covey, The 7 Habits of H
The difference is wide that sheets will not decide.
English Proverb
No answer is also an answer.
Proverb
Decisiveness is often the art of timely cruelty.
Henri Becquerel
Somewhere along the line of development we discover what we really are, and then we make our real decision for which we are responsible. Make that decision primarily for yourself because you can never really live anyone else's life, not even your own child's.
Eleanor Roosevelt
A man without decision can never be said to belong to himself.
John W. Foster
Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made.
Wayne Dyer
It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Decision: Something a man makes when he cannot get anyone to serve on a committee.
Fletcher Knebel
Choice was dangerous: you had to forgo all other possibilities when you chose.
J.K. Rowling
A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
Chinese Proverb
I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up.
Mark Twain
Every time he tried to reconstruct the internal arguments that had led to his decision, they sounded feebler to him.
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
We are given one life, and the decision is our whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.
Omar Bradley
Decide promptly, but never give any reasons. Your decisions may be right, but your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Lord Mansfield
I take great comfort in having people around who can walk in my office and tell me what's on their mind. Part of my job is -- they say, what's your job? My job is decision-maker. I make a lot of decisions. Obviously, some of which you've seen, and a lot of them you don't. And they're big ones and little ones. But you make a lot of decisions. And if you don't -- if you're uncertain about all the facts surrounding a decision, you've got to rely upon people. And you've then got to create an environment in which people are willing to come in and say, here's what's on my mind.It's important at the presidential level. It's important in business. You've got to have people comfortable about saying, Here's what I think you ought to do, Mr. CEO. You've got to listen and have a -- I've always believed in a flat organizational chart. I think the worst thing that can happen for decision-makers is to get a filtered point of view.
George W. Bush, Importance of Sm
