„It seemed like every month that went by, every day older, life became more complicated. The rule for growing up seemed to be that no choice, no decision worth making was without some cost.“
Christopher Golden
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„Every time you make the hard, correct decision you become a bit more courageous and every time you make the easy, wrong decision you become a bit more cowardly. If you are CEO, these choices will lead to a courageous or cowardly company.“
— Ben Horowitz American businessman 1966
Fortune: "Ben Horowitz: There's a fine line between fear and courage" http://fortune.com/2011/08/05/ben-horowitz-theres-a-fine-line-between-fear-and-courage/ (5 August 2011)
„This Life, which seems so fair,
Is like a bubble blown up in the air
By sporting children's breath,
Who chase it every where“
— William Drummond of Hawthornden British writer 1585 - 1649
This Life, which seems so fair http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/this-life-which-seems-so-fair-2/
„We have a decision to make every hour of every day, and that is whether to represent the sword or the shield. Democracy now.“
— Amy Goodman American broadcast journalist, syndicated columnist, investigative reporter and author 1957
„My parents wrote their own rules, so it didn’t seem odd to me to invent my life as I went along.“
— Greta Gaines
Context: My parents wrote their own rules, so it didn’t seem odd to me to invent my life as I went along. … I picked up a guitar and started writing songs late, when I was 22, but quickly became devoted to the craft of song writing, relieved that I had found my inner calling.
As quoted in the "Greta Gaines" profile page at Artist Direct http://www.artistdirect.com/artist/bio/greta-gaines/702133
„He became a willing tool in Hitler's hands for every one of his decisions.“
— Werner von Blomberg German field marshal 1878 - 1946
About Wilhelm Keitel. Quoted in "Justice at Nuremberg" - Page 281 - by Robert E. Conot - History - 1993
„People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.“
— Rollo May US psychiatrist 1909 - 1994
Context: The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.
Ch. 1 : The Courage to Create, p. 21
„The life, the fortune, and the happiness of every one of us, and, more or less, of those who are connected with us, do depend upon our knowing something of the rules of a game infinitely more difficult and complicated than chess.“
— Thomas Henry Huxley English biologist and comparative anatomist 1825 - 1895
Context: The life, the fortune, and the happiness of every one of us, and, more or less, of those who are connected with us, do depend upon our knowing something of the rules of a game infinitely more difficult and complicated than chess. It is a game which has been played for untold ages, every man and woman of us being one of the two players in a game of his or her own. The chessboard is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just, and patient. But also we know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance. To the man who plays well, the highest stakes are paid, with that sort of overflowing generosity with which the strong shows delight in strength. And one who plays ill is checkmated — without haste, but without remorse.
„One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your hear that every day is the best day of the year.“
— Ralph Waldo Emerson American philosopher, essayist, and poet 1803 - 1882
„“We as leaders, ought to model integrity every day. It starts with how we handle the dilemmas that may seem small. Your decisions and actions set the tone for the culture and reinforce the expectation of others.”“
— Don Soderquist 1934 - 2016
Don Soderquist “ Live Learn Lead to Make a Difference https://books.google.com/books?id=s0q7mZf9oDkC&lpg=pg=PP1&dq=Don%20Soderquist&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false, Thomas Nelson, April 2006 p. 147.
„He seemed to weave, like the spider, from pure impulse, without reflection. Every man's work, pursued steadily, tends in this way to become an end in itself, and so to bridge over the loveless chasms of his life.“
— George Eliot English novelist, journalist and translator 1819 - 1880
Chapter 2 (at page 16 – Page numbers as per the 1996 Penguin Classics Edition)
„It seems that in every culture, however tough life is and however impossible the conditions, there are some resilient human beings who find their way through, who survive and make something of themselves.“
— Yanni Greek pianist, keyboardist, composer, and music producer 1954
