Weighing Options Quotes

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

Never make a decision until you have to.

Don’t do what you can’t undo, until you’ve considered what you can’t do once you’ve done it.

A person sometimes can't make a decision unless they know what decision to make.

It's not like you take the right turning and you get everlasting happiness and you take the wrong one and your life's a disaster. In real life it's often impossible to tell which decision is the one you should make because what you stand to gain and what you stand to lose are sometimes-often-neck and neck.

Make your choice and accept the consequences.

Trade-offs have been with us ever since the late unpleasantness in the Garden of Eden.

June smiled. "So what will it be? Safety, or a future of pain and possibility?"

Every decision you make in life, not just on the sporting field - a lot of time and energy goes into it. You think things through before you make decisions and you always think the decision you make at the time is going to be the right one.

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

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.

Before you act, consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.

Occasionally and frequently the exercise of the judgment ought to end in absolute reservation. It may be very distasteful, and great fatigue, to suspend a conclusion; but as we are not infallible, so we ought to be cautious; we shall eventually find our advantage, for the man who rests in his position is not so far from right as he who, proceeding in a wrong direction, is ever increasing his distance.

Sometimes it is better to delay.

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

If you have more than one reason to do something (choose a doctor or veterinarian, hire a gardener or an employee, marry a person, go on a trip), just don’t do it. It does not mean that one reason is better than two, just that by invoking more than one reason you are trying to convince yourself to do something. Obvious decisions (robust to error) require no more than a single reason.

To swing or not to swing? Swing.

To think twice is quite enough.

When you make something you are always offering some choices and denying others.

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

When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons.

It was a big decision to leave Everton and it took me a lot of time to think over.

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.

Always find different ways to accomplish the mission. Then run a counter-analysis and list the advantages and disadvantages. When you have done that, you are ready to make a decision.