"I must have a prodigious amount of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up!"
— Mark Twain

"The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter."
— Malcolm Gladwell (Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking)

"Crying is all right in its own way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do."
— C.S. Lewis

"All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume."
— Noam Chomsky

"Truly successful decision-making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking."
— Malcolm Gladwell

""When you see a fork in the road..........take it!"

Yogi Beara "
— Yogi Beara

"It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires a great deal of strength to decide what to do."
— Elbert Hubbard

"If you want truth to stand clear before you, never be for or against. The struggle between "for" and "against" is the mind's worst disease."
— Sent-ts'an

"In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse."
— T.S. Eliot

"The hardest thing about the road not taken is that you never know where it might have led."
— Lisa Wingate (A Month of Summer)

"The sheer novelty and glamor of the Western diet, with its seventeen thousand new food products every year and the marketing power - thirty-two billion dollars a year - used to sell us those products, has overwhelmed the force of tradition and left us where we now find ourselves: relying on science and journalism and government and marketing to help us decide what to eat."
— Michael Pollan (In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto)

"There is always something to lose. But maybe more to gain."
— John Christopher (Beyond the Burning Lands)

"Once a decision was made, i didn't worry about it afterward..."
— Harry S. Truman

""It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.""
— Roy Disney

"You can't make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen."
— Michelle Obama

"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."
— William Shakespeare (Hamlet)

"The friends who met here and embraced are gone,
Each to his own mistake;"
— W.H. Auden

"He who hesitates is probably right."
— Bogovich

"The aspirations of democracy are based on the notion of an informed citizenry, capable of making wise decisions. The choices we are asked to make become increasingly complex. They require the longer-term thinking and greater tolerance for ambiguity that science fosters. The new economy is predicated on a continuous pipeline of scientific and technological innovation. It can not exist without workers and consumers who are mathematically and scientifically literate. "
— Ann Druyan

"But time has a way of stealthily deciding a person’s mind without her conscious knowledge, and as she studied and procrastinated, Poison found one day that she had come to know her choice."
— Chris Wooding (Poison)

"Each day is full of choices. It's full of decisions and actions, complications and simplicities. It is our fault if we make a bad choice, a bad decision, a bad action, revel in a complication, take for granted all the simplicities.
Someday we will understand why. But, for now, we must simply live, and pray that it all works out for us."
— Alysha Speer

"We suddenly feel fearful and apprehensive, naked in our perishable flesh, and for just a moment we wish we could go back to being stone—crumbling in death rather than rotting, trapped inside an immobile prison of stone rather than reduced to immaterial souls like those that now rattled within our skulls. The moment passes. There is no point in regretting irreversible decisions—one has to live with them, and we try."
— Ekaterina Sedia (The Alchemy Of Stone)

"People who grow up without a sense of how yesterday has affected today are unlikely to have a strong sense of how today affects tomorrow. They are unlikely to understand in a bone-deep way how the decisions they make now will shape and affect their future."
— William K. Kilpatrick

"Even though conditions such as lack of sleep, insufficient food and various mental stresses may suggest that the inmates were bound to react in certain ways, in the final analysis it becomes clear that the sort of person the prisoner became was the result of an inner decision, and not the result of camp influences alone."
— Viktor E. Frankl (Man's Search for Meaning)

"That was how it was, sometimes. You put yourself in front of the thing and waited for whatever was going to happen and that was all. It scared you and it didn't matter. You stood and faced it. There was no outwitting anything. When Almondine had been playful, she had been playful in the face of that knowledge, as defiant as before the rabid thing. Sometimes you looked the thing in the eye and it turned away. Sometimes it didn't."
— David Wroblewski (The Story of Edgar Sawtelle)