When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed. At that moment all Will's choices existed at once. But to keep them all in existence meant doing nothing. He had to choose, after all.
When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons.
You are the person who has to decide. Whether you'll do it or toss it aside.
When you're having trouble making a decision you're making it too soon.
If we will only allow that, as we progress, we remain unsure, we will leave opportunities for alternatives.
There is no such thing as no choice. There is always a choice. The only question is whether it's a bearable one.
There is absolutely no inevitability, so long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.
Whenever I think about an issue, I always argue the opposite side of it. So, when I ultimately decide on a course of action, I've already been through all the conceivable scenarios, and I'm going to go for it.
I like to sit on things and digest them and then I'll figure out my next move, but I never said I was right for doing anything.
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
Before you kill something make sure you have something better to replace it with.
Be open to other people's ideas. Don't get arrogant about your ideas. Shoot a lot of options so you're not stuck with just one version of something.
Possibilities play a much bigger role in thinking than most people believe. Without possibilities you cannot make progress.
Eventually, it becomes a matter of scale. When the good outweighs the bad, you stay. When the bad is the only thing you notice anymore, you think about your future, or what's left of it, consider options.
Never assume the obvious is true.
Faith has to take in all the other possibilities it can.
What do you look at while you’re making up your mind? Ours is not a reflective culture, we do no raise our eyes up to the hills. Most of the time we decide the critical things while looking at the linoleum floor of an institutional corridor, or whispering hurriedly in a waiting room with a television blatting nonsense.
My biggest concern is always the students who are working toward a certain career - when they limit themselves to just that one option. They need to know that the world is huge - it's an ocean, and there are so many options. It's not the end of the world if they don't get to pursue an apparent childhood dream.
