Decision Outcome Quotes

The only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar minds -- success.

Your life is the sum total of all your choices up to this present minute.

Well then, the ayes have it.

Every decision you make has a consequence.

[People] don't judge you on what would have happened in the absence of a decision.

In Sliding Doors, the whole idea is that every choice you make, and every single thing that happens to you changes the trajectory of your life, and once you are put on that trajectory, there is no way back. But Groundhog Day - which, I tell him, also happens to be a much better movie - says the opposite. It says if you mess up or make the wrong choice, you just have to keep at it until you do it right.

There are lots of people shaping decisions, and so if we want to predict correctly, we have to pay attention to everybody who is trying to shape the outcome, not just the people at the pinnacle of the decision-making pyramid.