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Quotations about decisions

Thomas JeffersonIn fine, I repeat, you must lay aside all prejudice on both sides, and neither believe nor reject anything, because any other persons, or description of persons, have rejected or believed it. Your own reason is the only oracle given you by heaven, and you are answerable, not for the rightness, but uprightness of the decision.

 - Thomas Jefferson

Tags:   decisions  prejudice  reasoning  

I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.

 - Stephen Covey

Tags:   circumstances  decisions  

Warren BuffettI insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. I read and think. So I do more reading and thinking, and make less impulse decisions than most people in business. I do it because I like this kind of life.

 - Warren Buffett

Ralph Waldo EmersonOnce you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

 - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tags:   decisions  fate  universe  

Sigmund FreudThe Ego's relation to the Id might be compared with that of a rider to his horse. The horse supplies the locomotive energy, while the rider has the privilege of deciding on the goal and of guiding the powerful animal's movement. But only too often there arises between the Ego and the Id the not precisely ideal situation of the rider being obliged to guide the horse along the path by which it itself wants to go.

 - Sigmund Freud

Tags:   behavior  decisions  ego  psychology  

Johann Wolfgang von GoetheAuthority - the fact, namely, that something has already happened or been said or decided, is of great value; but it is only a pedant who demands authority for everything.

 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Tags:   authority  decisions