Critical Choices Quotes

At any moment the decision you make can change the course of your life forever.

Before I make an action, think about the consequences. ... Any decision I make is a heavy decision.

It is very difficult to make really big, important, life-changing decisions because we are all susceptible to a formidable array of decision biases. There are more of them than we realize, and they come to visit us more often than we like to admit.

Every major difficulty you face in life is a fork in the road. You choose which track you will head down, toward breakdown or breakthrough.

It's kind of funny...the moments on which life hinges. I think growing up you always imagine your life - your success - depends on your family and how much money they have, where you go to college, what sort of job you can pin down, starting salary...But it doesn't, you know. You wouldn't believe this, but life hinges on a couple of seconds you never see coming. And what you decide in those few seconds determines everything from then on... And you have no idea what you'll do until you're there.

It's always the little decisions that have the biggest impact.

Big decisions in my life have always come easy and are made without hesitation. It is easier for me to make a life-changing decision than to decide what to get for dessert.

This fork in the road happens over a hundred times a day, and it's the choices that you make that will determine the shape of your life.

Sometimes it's the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.

Sometimes you don't know if you're Caesar about to cross the Rubicon or Captain Queeg cutting your own tow line.

The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often than not, unconsidered.

When it comes to the important things one is always alone.

The time is short. Eternity is long. It is the time of decision.

we need to make a few critical decisions in major areas of life and then manage those decisions day to day.

The hardest thing on earth is choosing what matters.

Our days are filled with a constant stream of decisions. Most are mundane, but some are so important that they can haunt you for the rest of your life.

It's funny: when you make a film, you always look back, and there are always crucial decisions that get made. You look back, and at the time they don't seem like it, but you look back, and you see they were absolutely fundamental.

Do certain sets of circumstances lie ahead of us wherein we change the world radically by the choices we make?

When the time for decision arrives, the time for preparation is past.

Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent and urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things.

Humanity cannot afford to muddle through the rest of the twentieth century; the risks are too great, and the stakes are too high. This may be the last opportunity to choose our own and our descendants’ destiny. Failing to choose or making the wrong choices may lead to catastrophe. But it must never be forgotten that the right choices could lead to a much better world.

There's moments when you have to make a split-second decision that will form you for the rest of your life.

Things can harden meaningfully in the moment of indecision