Up: [[Pay Attention MOC]] Created: 2022-02-08 Updated: 2026-09-08 > [!orbit] Robert Fritz > If you limit your choices to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise. > [!orbit] [[William Bridges]] in *The Way of Transition* > Decisions are made on the basis of evidence and logic, but choices are always an act of will….After making a decision, you have to stir up the fires of motivation to get yourself to act on what you have decided. But with a choice, the act of choosing starts the ball of action rolling. (p.174) > [!Orbit] Ralph Waldo Emerson > Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen. > [!Orbit] Henry Ford about the Model T Ford, 1909 > Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black. > [!Orbit] [[Anne Truitt]] in *Turn* > I note once again that the hallmark of a decision in line with one’s character is ease and contentment, and an ample, even provision of natural energy. > [!Orbit] Mario Puzo in *The Godfather* > I'll make him an offer he can't refuse. > [!Orbit] Mae West > Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before. > [!Orbit] Sam Goldwyn > I'll give you a definite maybe. > [!Orbit] Shirley Conran > First things first, second things never. > [!Orbit] Thomas Edison > When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this -- you haven't. > [!Orbit] Gabor Maté > Choice begins the moment you dis-identify from the mind and its conditioned patterns, the moment you become present…Until you reach that point, you are unconscious…. > [!Orbit] Sheldon B. Kopp > You are free to do whatever you like. You need only face the consequences. > [!Orbit] Søren Kierkegaard > We create ourselves by our choices. > [!orbit] Sigmund Freud > When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. > In vital matters, however… the decision should come from the unconscious, from somewhere within ourselves. > In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed by the deep inner needs of our nature.