Thoughts—Decisions	
QUICK CHECK:
1. Baez:  What can you decide?
2. Kaiser:  What are problems?
3. Chesterton:  What can’t they see?
4. Anonymous:  What is the best way to escape 	
from a problem?	
5. McGill: What are important decisions?
6. Franklin:  Describe the method 	
he used to reach a decision.	
7. Schmidt:  What must you take to 	
reach a distant goal?	
8. Copeland:  What’s the trouble of 	
not having a goal.	
9. a) Which quote do you like?  
 b) Give a reason for your answer.	
You don’t get to choose how you’re going to die.  
Or when.  You can only decide how you’re going 
to live.  Now.    —Joan Baez
When I’ve heard all I need to make a decision, I 
don’t take a vote.  I make a decision.
   —Ronald Reagan
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, 
and then we shall find the way.
   —Abraham Lincoln
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
   —Henry Kaiser
You’ll never have all the information you need to 
make a decision.  If you did, it would be a 
conclusion, not a decision.   —David Mahoney, Jr.
It isn’t that they can’t see the solution.  It is that 
they can’t see the problem.      —G. I. Chesterton
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve 
it.    —Anonymous
Who you allow into your life, mind, and heart are 
among the most important decisions you will ever 
make.     — Bryant McGill	
When confronted with two courses of action, I jot 
down on a piece of paper all the arguments in favor 
of each one — then on the opposite side I write the 
arguments against each one.  Then by weighing the 
arguments pro (for) and con (against) and canceling 
them out, one against the other, I take the course 
indicated by what remains.  —Benjamin Franklin
We know what happens to people who stay in the 
middle of the road.  They get run over.
   —Aneurin Bevan
We all make choices, but in the end our choices 
make us.   —Ken Levine
Look for your choices, pick the best one, then go 
with it.    —Pat Riley 
You are the one who must choose your place.
   —James Allen
Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take 
many small steps. —Helmut Schmidt
The trouble with not having a goal is that you can 
spend your life running up and down the field and 
never scoring.   —Bill Copeland
Thoughts & Quotes