Make good choices in order to manifest your true identity

If you know the road is steepy with many potholes and curves ahead, you will be informed to drive the car at a required speed. Knowledge is a guide you need to make choices in life.

Delaying is the most dangerous thing you can do in business.

Nature endowed human beings with two teleological components that define our essential humanity: consciousness and memory. Consciousness enables people to make decisions, and memory allows us to learn...

It turns out that indecision is a path itself; but figuratively, a vertical path - up or down - meaning it isn't always a fruitless path. One is forgotten, but the other is glorified. To be what they...

Your destiny is shaped in your moments of decision.

There is no avoidance in delay.

We're making our decisions … or so we think. Yet in truth, ignorance, greed, and the scourge of immediate gratification are often the things that are making them. So if we're going to truly live...

It is much easier to evaluate perfect rather than partial results.

There must be a few times in life when you stand at a precipice of a decision. When you know there will forever be a Before and an After... I knew there would be no turning back if I designated this...

A wrong choice thwarts God's original intention

Intuition is a sense of knowing how to act decisively without needing to know why.

All you have to do is decide moment by moment which voice you listen to: the Truth of Love or the nightmare of fear.

Life is a tapestry woven by the decisions we make.

A sixth sense cannot make up for a total lack of common sense.

"That's a huge gamble." "We're long past the time for careful certainty."

Never cross a river if it is on average four feet deep

You cannot do anything with knowledge unless you know where it stops, and the costs of using it.

Never ask anyone for their opinion, forecast, or recommendation. Just ask them what they have - or don't have - in their portfolio.

Yes, there what we would consider 'emergent circumstances.'

It was necessary that I leave Schruns and go to New York to rearrange publishers. I did my business in New York and when I got back to Paris I should have caught the first train from the Gare de l'Est...

It was a very bad idea. It was a terrible idea. It was the worst idea he had ever heard. It was irresistible.

There's a quick and easy way to test whether an activity involves skill: ask whether you can lose on purpose.

I may say, without undue egotism, that when I make up my mind to do something, it is done quickly.

Value the cost of not taking action

Annie's latest book, Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts, focuses on strategies for great decision-making.

I think of how life takes unexpected twists and turns, sometimes through sheer happenstance, sometimes through calculated decisions. In the end, it can all be called fate, but to me, it is more a...

You don't trade in the devil you know for the one you don't know.

Every choice brings wisdom in its wake. If you got to have the wisdom first, it wouldn't be a choice — just policy

Later we can go to dinner. I suppose that might work, she said. She sounded so damn casual, he thought. As if the decision she had just made weren't staggering in its implications. As if it weren't...