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quotes by topic Decision

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

Stephenie Meyer

Decision , Belong

" But whenever I say that I will do this or that, it looks very different when the time comes. "

Decision , Different

" I don't understand', I say,'why they care what I think, as long as I'm acting how they want me to.''You're acting how they want you to now', he says,'but what happens when your Abnegation-wired brain tells you to do something else, something they don't want? "

Decision , Acting

" For I am‚Äîor I was‚Äîone of those people who pride themselves in on their willpower, on their ability to make a decision and carry it through. This virtue, like most virtues, is ambiguity itself. People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception. Their decisions are not really decisions at all‚Äîa real decision makes one humble, one knows that it is at the mercy of more things than can be named‚Äîbut elaborate systems of evasion, of illusion, designed to make themselves and the world appear to be what they and the world are not. This is certainly what my decision, made so long ago in Joey‚Äôs bed, came to. I had decided to allow no room in the universe for something which shamed and frightened me. I succeeded very well‚Äîby not looking at the universe, by not looking at myself, by remaining, in effect, in constant motion. "

Decision , Life

" Was this a betrayal, or was it an act of courage? Perhaps both. Neither one involves forethought: such things take place in an instant, in an eyeblink. This can only be because they have been rehearsed by us already, over and over, in silence and darkness; in such silence, such darkness, that we are ignorant of them ourselves. Blind but sure-footed, we step forward as if into a remembered dance. "

Margaret Atwood

Action , Decision

Harry S. Truman

Time , Forget , Decision , Life

Change , Will , World , Society , Today , Decision

Advice , Decision , Medical

Existence , Meaning , Decision

Literature , Decision

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