Evaluating Options Quotes

You ought to be able to explain why you’re taking the job you’re taking, why you’re making the investment you’re making, or whatever it may be. And if it can’t stand applying pencil to paper, you’d better think it through some more. And if you can’t write an intelligent answer to those questions, don’t do it.

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.

Writing a record is like dating a few men at once. You take them to the same restaurants to see if they measure up, and at some point you decide who you like best.

Chess teaches you to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good and it trains you to think objectively when you're in trouble

If decisions were a choice between alternatives, decisions would come easy. Decision is the selection and formulation of alternatives.

Study the situation thoroughly, go over in your imagination the various courses of action possible to you and the consequences which can and may follow from each course. Pick out the course which gives the most promise and go ahead.

Am I getting better at making choices? Well, I think I might be getting better at reading scripts.

I'm quite good at knowing, 'This isn't right for me,' or, 'That person will be really good at singing that.'

I'm taking a bit of a wait-and-see attitude towards 3D.

At last, however, he began to think -- as you or I would have thought at first; for it is always the person not in the predicament who knows what ought to have been done in it, and would unquestionably have done it too . . .

You can't jump off a cliff when you have already fallen off a bigger one.

In all cases where doubt crops up, ask yourself, "If I had a gun to my head and had to do it, how would I do it?" It's not as hard as you think.

If I look back after 10 weeks and say I really want to stay then maybe I can make that happen. If I say OK it was good, but I’m ready to go then I can go, but for now I’m taking it week by week.

We do have choice, but not without some agony.

Don't avoid doing something wondering what its consequences may be. Give it a thought, break it down, and consider what really may happen rather than not do it at all.

When you see opportunities in your life, you've got to analyze, 'Why was that choice given to me?'

It’s for you to decide whether change is right for you right now. Maybe it is, maybe it isn’t. But either way keep the growth mindset in your thoughts then when you bump up against obstacles you can turn to it, it will always be there for you showing you a path into the future.

I can't grab anything that comes my way just because it's from a big banner.

Well,” Naomi said cheerfully, “what’s the worst that can happen?” They were silent, considering that, because there were just so many possibilities. But in the end, it was a better idea than Facebook.

The difference between a calculated risk and rolling the dice can be expressed in one word: homework.

There are lots of offers that I am getting. I can't complain.

We'll jump off that bridge when we come to it.

Rejecting Madrid? It's true that during the process, I decided to stay on the fringes. It was a time when I needed to think things through.

In a dilemma, it is helpful to change any variable, then reexamine the problem.

You need to see what kind of offers come your way. Just because it is Bollywood, doesn't mean that you have to take it.